Metal’s Romantic Rebellion
The spirit we know as the Romantic has, from its beginnings in the backwaters of
eighteenth-century Germany, taken many forms: within its folds can be found the
sublime melodies of Beethoven, the passionate
Breakthrough Cinema via iPhone
As 2015 wrapped up, along came the lists of “Best Movies” and “Must-see TV.”
There is so much at our disposal as viewers today, and it can be easy to miss
the artistic
John Bauer Is Producing Heat after Death
Around 1980, at about the time when the surviving members of Joy Division
changed their name to New Order, Bernard Sumner, their lead guitarist, said “Our
music had become so incredibly dark and
The Day That Often Isn’t
“There are the stars—doing their old, old criss-cross journeys in the sky…this
one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself.
The strain’s so bad