Love Our Arts & Culture Coverage?
You can help fund it!

Posted inAlbum Review

Album Review: Puritan Themes, the Second Psych Masterpiece by Holy Sons in 2025

A cosmic road trip shifting between physical and interior worlds.

According to the Puritan Themes press release, the albumโ€™s lead single โ€œChain Gang,โ€ is โ€œan imaginary take on if Cat Stevens had smoked a ton of salvia and taken a much darker route within the world of dense, story-telling songwriting.โ€ย  Experiences with salvia can be impactful. Fun trips where textures replicate themselves across various surfaces, […]

Posted inAlbum Review

Album Review: The Pastoral Minimalism of Ann Annieโ€™s El Prado

Real and imagined landscapes for where you are and where you’ve come from.

Joan Mitchell made a name for herself in the art world through her large scale paintings featuring gestural, emotionally charged mark making. Working mainly as an abstract-expressionist, her paintings vibrate in her use of color and the movement of brushstrokes across the canvas. Though her paintings appear to be non-objective, as one spends time with […]

Posted inAlbum Review

Album Review: Norway’s Mortiis Live at Enchanted Forest and Star Theater

Dark Dungeon Synth for your next D&D adventure.

Seminal Norwegian black metal band Emperor formed in 1991 with bass player and lyricist Mortiis at the helm. Mortiis recorded two acclaimed EPs with the band: Wrath of the Tyrant and Emperor, later compiled as Emperor/Wrath of the Tyrantโ€”but by the time Emperor started work on their debut full length, Mortiis had stepped away to […]

Posted inAlbum Review

Album Review: Holy Sonsโ€™ Fourth Entry in the Lost Decade Series

Memory-making, music to be nostalgic for in the future.

“What it means to be [an] amorphous teenager and not know what you’re becoming, and that kind of moment of potential magic that I think everybody has.” So says Emil Amos, the prolific artist behind Holy Sons, opening the first episode of his podcast, โ€œDrifter’s Sympathy.โ€ย  “I wanted to delve into [the] atmosphere and romance […]

Gift this article