Feb 10, 2022 By Austin Saalman

Despite the tendency of age to reveal those memories of disillusioned youth as the romantically futile shams they happen to be, something about feeling young and clever retains its appeal far beyond the realization that no one ever really is. Not since The Smiths dropped The Queen is Dead in 1986 had a musical group conveyed the excessive, borderline literate bedroom anguish and adolescent radicalism that Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers did in their time, lending a fresh voice to the vacuous realm of high school alienation. More

Feb 07, 2022 By Austin Saalman

Over a century following the film’s initial release, a hand-colored restoration of director Georges Méliès’ influential 1902 short film Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This visually arresting, bewitchingly surrealist critique of European imperialism made plenty of waves among modern critics, but the phenomenal score by acclaimed French musical duo Air featured alongside it stands to this day as one of pop music’s most ambitious efforts. More

Feb 03, 2022 By Austin Saalman

Just over 20 years following the release of Low, David Bowie’s 21st studio album saw the artist informally harkening back to his innovative Berlin Trilogy, crafting a solid nine-track elaboration upon his art rock experimentation begun in the mid ’70s. More

Feb 01, 2022 By Austin Saalman

While initially perplexing both fans and critics upon its February 1972 release, Neil Young’s quicksilver fourth record stands as one of his most eclectic solo efforts, as rough and hard rocking as it is pensive and introspective, with lyrics plumbing the depths of the innovative and controversial singer/songwriter’s creative soul, yielding vivid elegies to uncertainty and alienation, and disconcerted screeds, both personal and political. More