4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (588+ words) Nicola Miller’s Living Things: Spit! Spectrum Culture Miller, whose tone and phrasing blend the ragged slouch of Jackie McLean with the sharp, elegant tonal ambivalence of Ornette Coleman, appears to delight in the unpredictable and nonstandard, beginning with the makeup…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (390+ words) Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR 9/3/2026 However, the fans who turned out for the two-hour performance seemed to know the words to most of Estrada’s songs. And words are important to Estrada whose sophomore record – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias is full of poetic…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (319+ words) The film opens with lingering drone shots of Canton, Mississippi, in a cross between an ominous introduction to a terrible event and a tourism video as we watch a car stop on a bridge at dawn so a body can…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (222+ words) Still, the plot progresses much in the way you expect, with Akutsu going in a predictable direction. When we finally arrive with a somewhat bombastic scene in the third arc, The Last Blossom still feels muted, because the film started…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (638+ words) Spectrum Culture Interview-and-reenactment documentaries have taken on a life of their own over the years in the mainstream documentary space. With The Cycle of Love, director Orlando von Einsiedel delivers a film that safely plays to the strengths of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (225+ words) None of the songs on the new album are particularly unconventional, so it is puzzling to learn that the original objection from the film producers was that James and Reitzell were straying too far from what was expected. Perhaps unintentionally,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (608+ words) Spectrum Culture snag. have always been a band looking to take physical action as well as words. Their self-titled 2017 debut included envelopes of seeds, with a written message to fans to use them to plant new habitats for pollinators. Physical…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (637+ words) Spectrum Culture A bioterrorist unleashes a wave of hive-mind zombies on the occupants of high-rise tower in Colony. Arriving 10 years after Yeon Sang-ho’s acclaimed Train to Busan trapped passengers aboard a bullet train with a raging horde of infected, the…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (574+ words) Spectrum Culture McKenzie Iazzetta, the main composer for Trophy Wife, has a voice that warbles and screams in a similar fashion to Karly Hartzman, but her own brand of confessional lyrics skews much closer to the frank discussions of bad…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (825+ words) Spectrum Culture Though many critics and commenters have described Wagner’s signature singing as “whispered,” one throughline of the band’s decades-spanning output is Wagner’s commanding baritone, which offers an irresistible invitation to sit forward and listen. It’s puzzling when some observe…...