At this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, dozens of films represented the cinematic talent of various Asian communities across the globe, but only one film spoke true to the often convoluted Asian American experience. Director Tom Huang’s latest, Dealing with Dad, follows the story of Margaret (Ally Maki) and her two brothers Larry (Hayden […]
Tedious chores moonlight as signifiers for a young adult’s coming of age. Paying taxes, doing your own laundry, learning how to cook. During my college days, I often winced and skimped as much as I could on the “essentials,” hoarding weeks of dirty clothes to save on trips to the dormitory wash-and-dry machines. So goes […]
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 were the wild, wild west of music discovery: Myspace. Just one look at the album artwork for their debut will […]
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 Ragamuffs’ excellent sunshine indie-pop album Achy Luminesence, as well as a few follow-up singles that have been released since then. […]
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 a modern approach to glitzy 70s psych and funk, always inspiring its listeners to move. Or at the very least, […]