Growing Older With Pavement
Escapology, by Kode9
Kode9’s new record, Escapology: Music from Darien, is a strange document, yet all the more compelling for that strangeness.(...)
Reconsidering Susan Sontag, Part II
Even as Susan Sontag’s celebrity has dimmed, the time she spent in battered Sarajevo in the 1990s, directing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot remains a touchstone in discussions of intellectual engagement.(...)
Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer, by Matmos
With their latest release Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer, American duo Matmos further close the gap between what is still classified, however anachronistically, as “classical” music and the pop idiom to which their brand of experimental electronica remains indebted.(...)
Collezione di Attimi, by Negazione
For a brief period, Italy was home to the best punk in Europe. (...)
Thomas Mann in Silicon Valley
Why would someone want to read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain? And why would they finish it?(...)
Learning to Read Again
As I made my way up the trail, the late-afternoon sun temporarily muted by clouds, I suddenly realised how strange my situation was.(...)
Sounds of Survival: From Ukrainian Underground
Sounds of Survival: From Ukrainian Underground is so consistently good that its social function almost seems extraneous. We should have been listening to this music before we felt it was our democratic duty.(...)