As an art form, theater holds the potential to do something that cinema or television cannot: connect with people in the flesh. Given that inherent possibility for eliciting close emotional […]
If you’ve followed his career, you understand how difficult it is to say which of Fred Armisen’s characters qualifies as his signature role. Between his tenure on “Saturday Night Live” […]
Is it okay to laugh about colonialism and oppression? If you’ve ever seen “The Inquisition” musical number or the French Revolution scenes from Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part […]
Executed well, songwriting is a skill that stands up to just about any style. That is to say, even if the dressing up of a track is not to your […]
It’s difficult to say if Dominic Fike’s output is the inevitable result of our multicultural musical monoculture (an oxymoronic irony for sure) or if he and his team’s creative choices […]
For all of the negative-energy detritus that Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) left smeared across popular culture, no one rioted upon its release—including the people camped […]
When I was in college in the early 1990s, I got swept up in the Riot Grrrl music movement despite the fact that I wasn’t female, Queer, or even female-presenting. […]
Has there ever been a musical group more committed to the conceptual panacea known as yacht rock than Pablo Cruise? That hindsight-made genre can be found in the name. You […]
A B3 model Hammond organ from 1962, like the type Sam Fribush sets himself up behind, weighs upwards of 310 pounds—and that’s just the console unit alone. Throw the bench […]
What is it about music as an art form that pushes some people to demand authenticity from those they listen to? Honesty of vision is often expected of musicians in […]