Jolie Holland has a new record called Wine Dark Sea. Due for release some time next year, it’s sort of a return, but in the same it’s a continued expansion of an ever-widening grip on the varied elements of music that make up her universe. I spoke with her a week before going into the […]
Prologue The Five-Year Plan freed Doctor Pyotr Zinchenko to spend both day and night dreaming about putting a man in space. Many considered him to be the first space-hygienist, developing a wide-range of waste receptacles—studying bacteria and viruses in gravity-free environments and being the first person to consider the implications of living in a […]
1. Jam of the summer “Get Lucky” gets a very Daft Punk-y interstellar reimagining with this cover, where segments of the song are inspired by past and future decades of popular music. – – – 2. The most powerful woman in American politics has joined Twitter. Notice that she’s not following Barack Obama. We smell […]
So begins a weekly recommendation of movies whose selection is governed by a particular moment, consideration, or state of mind. This week’s topic: more than a music doc –Shut Up and Play the Hits – How to attend your funeral and live to tell about it. –Scott Walker: 30 Century Man – Ways we are not thinking […]
Recently I got ahold of music for the BBC documentary series Africa and was immediately struck by its quality and talent. Composer Sarah Class, a veteran of BBC as well as many other ventures into disparate territories, manages a landscape of orchestration that is beautiful, compelling, and far beyond what I’ve grown to expect from […]
