Back in college, I first wrote about Haru Nemuri’s Shunka Ryougen for a music column I led on behalf of my university website. Sitting across from the poetry rapper and her team nearly ten months later inside of a WeWork in downtown Austin, I struggled to articulate how important the project meant to me as […]
SXSW’s magnetism for indie artists is well documented. So of course when an unprecedented global pandemic closes it down, what becomes of the artists who were scheduled to play? Some return, and with a clarifying amount of new material. One such artist includes Taiwanese-Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and activist Deena Lynch, better known as her […]
When doing a whole week of artist interviews, it’s always a good omen when the very first one goes better than expected; this year, our SXSW interview with London-based artist and friend of the site mui zyu (Eva Liu) was no exception. For the past few years (and following up from the success of her […]
The past couple of years has forced us all to reckon with a pronounced sense of loneliness. Whether it was social and physical isolation or questions of whether our careers were truly forever stuck, the pandemic further exposed our insecurities of how much time we had to accomplish what we wanted to. At this year’s […]
In interviews past, director Kit Zauhar has mentioned that nice people aren’t interesting on camera, and, really, This Closeness is exactly that mantra in action. This Closeness follows couple Tessa (Kit Zauhar) and Ben (Zane Pais) who book an Airbnb to attend Ben’s high school reunion. Unbeknownst to them, they’re sharing that space with the […]