Album Covers of the Year 2015
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View Article3 Moons – Jefferson Zurna Band Interview: Inward Revolutions & Astrological...
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View ArticleEric Beltz Artist Interview: Frozen in Transcendence
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music art film review - REDEFINE magazine A United Cultural Front, Part 1: Models of Space Preservation & Creation from Oakland & Seattle Since the Dot-Com Boom of the 1990s, San Francisco,...
View ArticleMusic Preservation Projects: Using Archives to Raise Visibility for the...
Berkeley Fudge and Manty Ellis, 1979. Photograph by Deborah Milne, via Milwaukee Jazz Vision. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: home of Pabst Blue Ribbon and the setting for Happy Days — probably not the first...
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It’s 9:00am on the dot when I pick up my phone to dial a New York number. It rings once. “Vivian!” the voice on the other line exclaims. Yes — not states; not says — but exclaims! As though we had...
View ArticleLynn Shelton’s Of A Certain Age Grant Nominees: 25 Women & Non-Binary...
Two months following the tragic and unexpected passing of independent filmmaker Lynn Shelton — known for such films as Sword of Trust (2019), Laggies (2014), and Humpday (2009) — Duplass Brothers...
View ArticleHiroki Tanaka Musician Interview: Clarifying the Cycles of Life & Death...
Swathed in the unlikely comfort of warm grey tones, Toronto-based musician Hiroki Tanaka (田中博基) can be seen on the album cover for his debut solo record, Kaigo Kioku Kyoku (介護記憶曲), looking fairly...
View ArticleThe Intuitive Dimension of Bearing Witness: Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Marion...
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the mind of the masses.” – Malcolm...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Smiling with No Teeth: Interview w/ Musician Genesis Owusu
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View ArticleKolby Rowland Interview: City by the Sound Captures Seattle Through...
Midway through interviewing Seattle artist and filmmaker Kolby Rowland, I notice that a building I have walked by a zillion times is now overlooking us, dangling a gigantic red and white sign which...
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