This month’s playlist, titled “ A Slowcore Revival ,” contains 90+ minutes of slowcore classics from some of the genre’s ...

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Lincoln’s best movie theater is celebrating spooky season with an eclectic blend of new and old horror films. Lincoln’s very own Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center has announced its 2026 Fright Fest ...

The lack of cultural hermeneutics strikes again. If you’ve read my political posts, then you’ve probably seen me bring up “cultural hermeneutics” at least once or twice before. Hermeneutics is usually ...

Stavesacre recently announced that their sophomore album, 1997’s Absolutes, will be reissued on vinyl. As a little teaser, the post-hardcore outfit, which boasts members of The Crucified, Neon Horse, ...

An evocative harp-led jazz number that’s the very definition of graceful. “Beauty in Bloom” is currently available via Black Is Beautiful Experience, and it bodes well for the project’s future ...

I wrote about Desiderii Marginis’s Live in Zagreb earlier this month, and what does Johan Levin do less than two weeks later? He announces a new album titled Tragedy Ecstasy Doom and drops the first ...

One of The Verve’s earliest tunes finds the band at their most blissed out and psychedelic. Simon Jones’s loping bass line immediately settles into the song’s foundation upon emerging from Nick McCabe ...

Manchester’s Vini Reilly is one of the greatest guitarists you’ve probably never heard of. But whereas a lot of so-called guitar gods focus on technical prowess (e.g., frenetic fretwork, fiery solos), ...

Update: A month has passed, and Google’s AI still doesn’t know how to spell the days of the week. By now, it’s common knowledge that Google’s AI search can be… unreliable. Back in 2024, the world’s ...