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May 2024

By Ben Sailer • May 24th, 2024

There’s no reason to believe there’s some sort of age cutoff where your place on stage has to be replaced with a seat at the bar.

Art from the movie Blue Giant with the title on the left and a young saxophone player in jeans on the right photographed from a low angle just wailing on his horn

A Duet of Anime and Jazz: An Interview with Director Yuzuru Tachikawa

By Autumn Wright • May 21st, 2024

“My intent was to especially treat live performances like what would be done for an anime action scene.”

Noah's Beat Box
A close-up photo of Drake on the Grammy Awards red carpet. A red "X" has been drawn over his face.

Post-Truth Beef

By Noah Springer • May 21st, 2024

This may become known as the first post-truth beef in hip hop.

Noah's Beat Box

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Vinyl 4LP Boxset

By Noah Springer • April 10th, 2024

Of all the albums from the ’90s alternative rock scene, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is one of the most deserving for a deluxe treatment like this.

A grainy photograph of Kurt Cobain playing his guitar and singing into a mic while wearing a slip dress and rhinestone tiara.

Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time)

By Juno Rylee Schultz • April 5th, 2024

We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.

A screencap from Tears of the Kingdom when the Stable Trotters band is brought back together to sing for a Great Fairy

Getting the Band Back Together: Players Orchestrating Worlds

By Jonathan Fenn • March 13th, 2024

The reason bringing musicians together works so well as a gameplay trope, is that it capitalizes on connection and creativity at its core in a mechanically satisfying, and often narratively significant way.

Rookie of the Year
The band U2 plays on a tiny stage just inside the gigantic circular wall of the Sphere, a huge flock of birds projected on its side.

Atomic City: U2 Go Nuclear at the Sphere

By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2024

If I lived in Las Vegas, I wouldn’t be writing this column at all, because I’d be at the show. Again. (And then again.)

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