A lot can change in six years. Perhaps no one knows that feeling better than New York/Hong Kong-based singer-songwriter Mara Measor. In the time since Measor released her second feature-length album and accompanying book, Naked ...
The desecration of 5 Pointz came suddenly one night in 2013. Paid men, at the behest of a real estate developer, painted over the graffitied murals that adorned the walls of this Queens complex. A ...
Hae.zy (Hae Hyun Choi) is a Korean American artist based in Southern California who tells love stories with a smooth and sensual vibe. Her sound merges futuristic melodies with old-school poetic writing to deliver music ...
Jazz, to most of us, is enigmatic in nature. Unless you’re a music theory aficionado, jazz is either a complex being that sounds nice with too many layers to handle, or a good subject to ...
The songs of Houston-based musician Bowen marry low-key R&B dreamscapes with bedroom pop production–a winning combination that has found success for many up-and-coming musicians. But while the young musician is still tinkering around with his ...
For years, the moon has been a coveted muse for gifted singer-songwriters. In some songs it’s the unlikely audience who will listen to all of your troubles, and in others it can be a study ...
I’ve often heard that the mastery of editing a film is measured by how unnoticeable the edits are. If you get from one place to another–from one character to another, from the beginning to the ...
While Toronto-based musician Freddy Kwon has released a handful of singles and EPs under the name freddyboy so far, he’s no newcomer to the scene. Kwon played guitar for The Kents, a band who created ...
Kangmin Kim invites us into the vicarious dreams of his mother in “KKUM.” In this stop-motion animated experimental memoir, Kim illustrates his mother’s prophetic visions in monochromatic styrofoam, cotton, and light. These elements are re-contextualized ...
Can we be friends with our circumstances? This is the question that Jason Park asks us in their short film, “BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop.” Byung Jun Lee, or BJ for short (played by Johnnyboy Tellem), ...