2008 was sixteen years ago. If you were born in that year, you can now legally drive a car, which means that Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and whoever is next are going through their formative years right now. Like it or not (and you probably don’t), a film about life in 2008 is now considered […]
As we’ve written on the site over and over again, SXSW consistently brings the chaos. There are interviews where things can go awry, but then there are SXSW interviews, which really are in their own category of crazy. My chat with the Taiwanese American folk-pop singer-songwriter Chance Emerson started out with me being 40 minutes […]
One of the greatest things about being able to cover SXSW over multiple years is seeing which artists come back with material. I met one such artist, Chi Thai, at an Asian networking event in 2022 who had helped develop an AR project, Prototype: Acorn. And while we didn’t meet in person in 2023, the […]
Two years ago, I received an email from an artist that I’d only casually heard about through word-of-mouth – gig posters would show her playing with artists like Raavi and FIG, seemingly suggesting another exciting artist to watch out for in the bustling New York music scene. Spotify’s algorithm, as tired as it is, had […]
It would be an understatement to say that SXSW 2024 was thick with the air of Monkey Man. The fervor for the premiere was as pervasive and mysterious as the cryptic legend the film is based on. Jordan Peele famously picked the film up from Netflix and gave it a theatrical release, which was enough […]