Apr 15, 2019 Live Web Exclusive

For three days each spring, a corner of the old town in the Estonian capital transforms from a preserved, post-industrial throwback to a bustling, anything-is-possible playground for hundreds of invited artists and speakers to splash around in. More

Apr 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

In 2017, Washington, D.C post-punks Priests announced themselves to the world with, despite the claims for the contrary, a big bang. More

Apr 12, 2019 DVDs Web Exclusive

Even more so than James Stewart or Arthur Kennedy, the true star of Bend of the River is the Pacific Northwest landscape, rendered in gorgeous Technicolor and benefiting handsomely from Kino Lorber’s 4K transfer. More

Apr 12, 2019 Books Web Exclusive

Over the course of Teen Movie Hell, McPadden runs the gauntlet of coming-of-age comedies, “from Animal House to Zapped!” More

Apr 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

On "The Boys are Killing Me," one of the centerpieces of POND's groove heavy psych-pop opus Tasmania, frontman Nick Allbrook sings "So we staggered off into the night/Drunk, but overjoyed just to be employed." More

Apr 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

For Jess Ribeiro, the creative process often out outshines the finished product. The Melbourne-native (whose 2015 effort, Kill It Yourself, was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize) recorded her third studio album, LOVE HATE, in the remote seaside town of Lyttleton, New Zealand. More

Apr 11, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

Rose Elinor Dougall knows the trick to defying the laws of time and space. Nearly a decade ago, the former Pipette struck out to cultivate the enchanted garden of Without Why, where her Parisian grandeur and Krautrock cool belied the world-weary wisdom underneath.  More

Apr 11, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

Fourteen years on from Stephen Malkmus' last truly solo record, 2005's Face the Truth, we receive this missive from an alternate universe Malkmus in which, rather than being an awkward indie-pop legend fronting Pavement and later, to diminishing returns, The Jicks, he is a techno-worshipping, Berlin-clubbing hipster, laying waste to old-fashioned guitar rock through the power of raw beats. More

Apr 11, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

Pitching somewhere between indie rock and jazz, the debut full-length record from New York natives Earthquake Lights is a truly beautiful thing. It is of those albums that comes along as if from nowhere and knocks you sideways with the kind of listening experience which we all dream about having, but in actual fact have very infrequently.  More