Do you ever get roped into a film with certain expectations about what you’re going to see… only to be met with something completely different? I would safely file Japanese director Shinzo Katayama’s Missing under ...
Right at the beginning of South Korean director Syeyoung Park’s The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, a young woman tells her narcoleptic boyfriend about a shocking discovery she made in a nearby river. She and her team, ...
Every year, Montreal’s Fantasia Fest boasts an incredible lineup of genre films, ranging from horror films, thrillers, and the downright weird. But perhaps moreso than it is a genre-fest, Fantasia does a great job of ...
When now Austin-based indie pop band Letting Up Despite Great Faults first released their self-titled debut back in 2009, the music scene was completely different. Spotify was nonexistent, and the place where bands got discovered ...
Did any band at SXSW have more fun at the fest than Ragamuffs? During their set at Las Perlas, Ragamuffs bandleader Haley Finesse and her band ran through a quick set of hits off of ...
In a way, Kainalu (Trent Prall)’s music sounds timeless. Even back when he released his first Bloom Lagoon EP (2017) and its pulsing retro-psychedelic debut album Lotus Gate (2019), Kainalu’s music already established itself as ...
On I Just Want to Be Wild For You, the sophomore album of Portland-based indie-rocker MAITA (Maria Maita-Keppler), there’s a buzzy energy that lends itself to both introspection as well as liberating rock-out jams. Songs ...
When it comes to video game-to-screen adaptations, the following result of such a venture usually falls under two camps – either it’s okay, or it becomes the internet’s punching bag for the next few weeks. ...
From the Intercom is now three-and-a-half years old. Can you believe it? In that time, we’ve done a number of things that we’re proud of: extensive film festival coverage, numerous artist spotlights, and our crazy ...
When we first interviewed keshi (Casey Luong) back in 2018, he was still at the cusp of breaking through. Lo-fi, and more specifically, lo-fi hip hop as a genre, was slowly creeping its way through ...