“I Try to Talk to You” – Hercules and Love Affair feat. John Grant A beautiful song about people connecting in tough times.
In 1968, writer James Baldwin appeared on “The Dick Cavett Show” and offered an explanation of a racial paradox which he understood to pervade American society: “When any white man in the world says, ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ the entire white world applauds.
The last presidential election seemed to open a rift within the pop culture community. On the one hand, we saw a reality-television show host rise to power in no small part due to his celebrity status.
Migos is not a joke. That’s the main takeaway from “Culture,” their stunning, vital new album.
Have the post-rush blues? Celebrating a bid from the frat or sorority of your dreams? Need some sick beats to remind you that you can't push off school back anymore and need to get into classroom grind?
Martin Scorsese isn’t the kind of director whose repertoire of films beckons the label "religious." Considering his most popular works are character studies of morally bankrupted and deeply flawed men (“Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” come to mind), it must strike the casual film-watcher as odd that “Silence,” Scorsese’s most recent film, is a veneration of Christianity and its practices.
Though viewers are warned with every episode to discontinue watching the series, Netflix’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” compels audiences to power through the eight-episode season with excitement.
Cancel the Rose Parade. I know “La La Land” has earned the undying praise of critics, the academy, and lovers of symmetrical faces everywhere, but all that is over now.
SPOILERS AHEAD: To all the folks out there saddened by the bittersweet ending of Damian Chazelle’s “La La Land,” which released last month, don’t say you weren’t warned.
When the world last saw the handiwork of Damien Chazelle, it was in an exhilarating, ten-plus-minute drum performance that capped off 2014’s “Whiplash.” The extended tension and release of that final scene, buoyed by a restless camera, stood out as the undoubted highlight of the film, and it showed Chazelle’s unique capabilities as a director.
On Donald Glover’s first album as Childish Gambino, he talked about a lesson he learned as a kid.
For those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings and those awkward encounters with homophobic drunk uncle at the dinner table, it's the most wonderful time of the year!
For hardcore Hip-Hop fans, hearing that rapper Victor Vazquez―also known as Kool A.D. from musical group Das Racist―is now writing fiction novels is like receiving a birthday gift but not on your birthday.
Drew Haskins: “Into You” by Ariana Grande is the best song of the year. Does it have synths so sonorous they could make the floor shake?
The Weeknd got a haircut. Too bad he can’t invest a similar amount of time in cutting down his album. The Weeknd dropped his third album “Starboy,” this weekend, and, clearly, he needs more time than a year and a few months between albums to produce a well-crafted work.
Casual listeners of a band will stick around for a few albums, perhaps even five or six if the group evolves well.
Nicola Roberts. Cheryl Cole. Sarah Harding. Nadine Coyle. Kimberley Walsh. You probably don’t know who these women are.
“Moonlight,” the sophomore film of director Barry Jenkins, is quiet. Like its main character Chiron, the movie doesn’t say much in terms of dialogue–searing and vibrant visuals do all of the talking instead, powerful gazes and pointed body language communicating what the characters’ words do not.
Imagine yourself looking upon a vast plain. Buffalo graze among the company of cattle egret. You can hear the rattling of insects in the grass as the sun beats down, iridescent and uncompromising.