Music

Friedrich Wilheim Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is widely acknowledged not just as a classic of German Expressionist cinema but also as the silver screen’s first interpretation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire classic Dracula ...

This may be the Year of the Dog according to the Lunar calendar, but make no mistake — when it comes to brash, brazen rock and roll, 2018 is set to be the year of Thunderpussy. This quartet of four ...

With Ought’s third album Room Inside the World (the group’s Merge Records debut), the Montreal-based quartet traverses new musical ground while staying true to its basic take of metropolitan-weary, angst-ridden outlooks on life. The wry wittiness of frontman Tim Darcy’s ...

Well, reviewing this album now may seem like bandwagon-jumping, what with it having been released in March last year, with the band now blowing up, and I really hope it does seem like that. I actually was exposed to Idles ...

“I honestly just think we do have people in this country now who’re just a bit fucking humourless, and they just don’t know when you’re joking. ‘Is he joking, this comedian? This comedian joking up on the comedy stage at ...

No Pop, the fourth album from Odonis Odonis, is the sound of motion. These are songs of speed and machinery: subways, bullet trains, fast cars, highways, treadmills. Despite the album’s reliance on electronic equipment, one can still catch a whiff ...

After more than 40 years and dozens of albums, pinning down the sound of a composer like JG Thirlwell seems to grow more difficult instead of easier. Those who have followed his career since the early 1980s may have thought ...

There has been, and always will be, something divisive about the writings of American author H.P. Lovecraft. Many readers and scholars marvel at the world building; the archaic language that lends itself perfectly to the macabre mythos he created. Others ...

Re-Animator (1985) is Stuart Gordon’s loose contemporary adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s 1922 short story Herbert West – Reanimator, which was written as a parody of Mary Shelley’s most famous work, the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Thanks ...

A Year In The Country is an extraordinary multimedia project that incorporates a musical collective, record label, website, and physical artwork. It describes its raison d’etre thusly: “It is a wandering amongst work that takes inspiration from the hidden and ...