On City of Mirrors, the fourth full-length record from Chicago’s Dos Santos, the five-piece band once again showcases their musical expertise by presenting a rich, multicultural melting pot of sounds. Coming from wide-ranging diasporic...
Early on in North By Current, a documentary by experimental multimedia artist Angelo Madsen Minax, a family of four slides into a retro diner booth four days after a funeral. As the mother tries to make conversation and the adult children stare off...
Hosted by Three Dollar Bill Cinema and running from October 14-24, 2021, the Seattle Queer Film Festival goes hybrid in its 26th year. All screenings are held in-person at various venues across Seattle and virtually via Elevent, celebrating a...
Space 1.8 is the highly anticipated debut album by London-based Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer, and musician Nala Sinephro. Composed after Sinephro experienced a serious health scare, the album’s warm textures and methodically slow...
Throughout Deantoni Parks’ 20-plus-year career as a prolific, experimental drummer and record producer, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Flying Lotus, Sade, and more deeply with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale and Mars Volta’s Omar...
In Los Angeles-based musician Patrick Shiroishi‘s latest music video for “To Kill a Wind-Up Bird,” excitable free jazz comes face-to-wrinkly-puppet-face with a Looney Tunes-inspired experiment, which sets skronking sounds to...
Early on in What We Left Unfinished, a new documentary from filmmaker and visual artist Mariam Ghani, a man in jeans and aviators strides towards a burning tank in the desert and throws a ruthless punch at the man who set off the explosion...
Midway through interviewing Seattle artist and filmmaker Kolby Rowland, I notice that a building I have walked by a zillion times is now overlooking us, dangling a gigantic red and white sign which reads, “FOR LEASE.” Its upper two...