An amorous pansexual alien charms the pants off two best friends in Addison Heimann's audaciously offbeat horror-comedy Touch Me.

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

In the world of music, popularity is often a poor metric for power. There is a specific class of artist known as the 'musician's musician': bands that laboured in relative obscurity, played to empty ...

Roasting alive in London’s concrete oven in the hottest May day since records began, attention constantly waylaid by warnings of incoming climate-induced societal collapse, lends an added intensity to ...

1973 stands out as one of rock’s most bewildering and exhilarating years, a moment when experimentation collided with ambition across genres. Prog rock was reaching labyrinthine extremes, from King ...

To be trans in America is to live amongst death and fear your own. Lia Ouyang Rusli makes sounds that stay present in the body, no matter its form. A year ago, “no good” phased between bantam ...

A Bleak King Cometh is like a molotov cocktail casually tossed into the stave church of black metal orthodoxy. There might be tremolo-picked riffs, gnashed teeth and blastbeats aplenty, but the trio ...

The Agnes Varda of deep listening returns with another piece of intimate audio vérité, a two-CD headphone collage made from recordings of her mother's final four months. Here, Rossetto's mom tells ...

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This house music, it's gonna set you free. In 2025 house music is such a globally popular and varied genre that its origins in early 1980s Chicago warehouses seem improbable. But the myth of house ...

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...