Noise Complaint Kawaii, Kaiju, and Guitar Pedals: Window Shopping With Effects Bakery By Ben Sailer • June 28th, 2024 Ben falls in love with an impossibly cute guitar pedal company that brings kawaii style and rock and roll together.
Holomatixx: A New Wave Order By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 10th, 2024 Coming at you straight from the Pink Aisle!
Casting Deep Meteo Zazen Boys and the Healing Riff By Levi Rubeck • June 7th, 2024 Zazen Boys, even after so long, is clearly not afraid to confront multiple shades of life, breaking time and time signatures while remaining achingly human.
How Music Makes Tchia’s Story Hit Home By Nina Penner and Paul Drotos • June 4th, 2024 The pastoral style isn’t as much about nature as it is about harmonious relationships between humans and nature.
Noise Complaint 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.
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 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.
Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Stump • 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.
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.
