Watch the new music video for 'Hoedown', from our album 'Oxygen'!

Camilo Lara discusses the new collaboration, Beck’s appearance on the album and its release through the legendary Ansonia label. Camilo Lara (Mexico City) and Eblis Álvarez (Bogotá) didn’t…

Screenshot from The Gamer American media seems to love complex heroes, especially morally gray ones. The characters who will break the rules, but do so in pursuit of a goal that the viewer/reader…

Ranting against the aviation bores you’ve had to endure for so many years Two leading military historians (Al Murray and James Holland), a former Sea Harrier pilot (Paul Tremelling), a former…

Gomess and Jirahs as icons of resourcefulness and special effects artist comradery

A new three-part documentary was released on Netflix last week as part of a new series called, ‘Should I Marry a Murderer?’ At first sight, this is perhaps not what you’d expect to…

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A poster promoting 'America' (1924) and highlighting the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, which is depicted in the film. This weekend, I'll be at the keyboard to accompany a screening of D.W. Griffith's…

Touring comedian Doug Stanhope sells &#8220;stolen hotel bibles&#8221; as merch. He signs them. Nothing says &#8216;Fuck Easter!&#8217; like skipping the collection tray and purchasing a Bible stolen…

In the crepuscule of pre-dawn each day, I silently pop out the forehatch like a woodchuck to hop in a dinghy with a couple of new friends who sailed their Wharram 30 from England. He had been a…

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under &#8220;Barbican Station&#8221;. In this episode we discuss Mick Herron&#8217;s latest in the Slough House series, Clown…

"House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals Post one of your favorite standards. - House of the Rising Sun by The Animals Eric Burdon has one of the greatest rock and roll voices of all time. Enjoy!…

Here is the second in a series of interviews I had with Moris Tepper, friend of Don and longest serving guitarist of the Magic Band. In this interview Moris talks about his early years, meeting Don,…

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So I spent a lot of time talking about John Byrne&#8217;s 1980s run on the Fantastic Four, probably focusing too much on the specifics without saying, in the big picture, that it was classically-done…

I watched the one-woman stage show Fleabag today by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I’ve tried watching a few film recordings of stage shows, and they often don’t really land for me because the…

I was leafing through the latest issue of Fortean Times when I came across an intriguing essay by Steven Toase. The author notes the marmalade sandwiches left for Queen Elizabeth II alongside floral…

My 9th year at SXSW. A good time to name the top performances since 2016 and go a little deeper into my 2026. · 2016: Tickle Torture @ The Iron Bear with a lubed up set more erotic than Prince. ·…

Please join us on Saturday, May 16 for an afternoon of music for piano trio (violin-cello-piano), a favorite genre for many of us. We’ll hear two great piano trios by Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn,…

interstellarsystem:Reminder that alterhuman =/= nonhuman. Those are not the same thing! Nonhumans can be considered alterhuman, but so can many humans. Otherhearteds, systems and their members, those…

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I read Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey

These past few months I have been really interested in going back in time and exploring lesser known bands and releases on some of the bigger and more successful labels. I spent a bit of time going…

I keep getting Malcolm in the Middle clips on my YouTube feed (self-inflicted) and it all amounted to finding this compilation video of 1 second from every episode. I thought the show was wacky…

VOL 6, NO 2 ★ Pod Loser. / Pennington Pop Explosion, a mixtape. (Podcast feed.) Featuring: Tegan & Sara, The Hardship Post, Odds, Eric’s Trip, The Flashing Lights, Sloan, Doughboys, Joel Plaskett,…

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"You're my best friend, I'm not going to bet against you. Not with these odds." A man (Simon Pegg) gets dumped by his long-term girlfriend (Thandiwe Newton), so decides to run a marathon to try to…

Yesterday a blogger I enjoy reading ( The Wry Writer ) wrote a lovely reading-related post based around the 5 Ws. I love learning about other people's reading habits! Her post inspired me to do the…

A couple months ago, my spouse and I sat down on a weekend to binge re-watch the whole debut season of Murderbot and it was really enjoyable. I think we got through 7 or 8 episodes before finishing…

the most successful boy group to ever come out of south korea. the first group to make it big internationally, they remain a significant contributor to their country's economy. they were also the…

There is a lot of hype around Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, and I&rsquo;ve always wondered why. I knew from the summary that it was LitRPG, and those are hardly ever…

Calvin and Hobbes likely doesn’t need any more praise for being the unique cultural achievement it is as one of the most acclaimed comic strips of all time. Everyone agrees on that already. So this…

Painted Devils, Margaret Owen. Second of the Little Thieves trilogy, which I started last month and promptly fell in love with.Most trilogies, having clearly established a romantic relationship in…

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for sensuality Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang

Book Review: 'The City Machine' by Louis Trimble 3 / 5 Stars 'The City Machine' (143 pp.) was published by DAW in 1972 and features cover art by Kelly Freas. This is among the very first books in the…

I very much enjoyed this 1956 autobiographical story by Gerald Durrell, who aged 10 moved to Corfu from england in the 1930's with his eccentric family. Beautiful descriptions of the idyllic greek…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** G uess how many of the following films I've ever seen. Grizzly, The Missouri Breaks,…

For as long as people have shared stories around campfires, two mysterious figures have captured our imaginations more than almost any others: aliens—those enigmatic visitors from the skies—and…

Hey people! 🙂 Today I thought we could listen to something by Loreena McKennitt, specifically from her album The Visit, from which I&#8217;ve shared quite a few songs over the years. As is the case…

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The new Dead Lights album Lash is due out May 15. The post Interview: DEAD LIGHTS lure us into the warped world of Lash appeared first on Synthpop Fanatic.

Recently on Sunday, 26 April 2026, I had the opportunity to attend the Greg Howe Online Masterclass. It provided a comprehensive look into the career and technical approach of the iconic guitarist.…

The premise is tantalizing: the queen of the tradwives wakes up in 1855 and is forced to live out the old-fashioned life she play-acts on the internet. Influencer Natalie Heller Mills, of…

Jack in the Green attendees sitting on Hastings West Hill. Photograph by the author. Yesterday was the Hastings Jack in the Green festival, an annual event marked by strange costumes, drinking, and a…

Ian Cobiella Have I Been Good to You Opening with a cinematic pulsing bass line that evokes the movies of Tony Scott, LA-based musician Ian Cobiella’s single, Have I Been Good To You, has a pulse…