Music
Inspiring social change through hip-hop
Choreographer Rennie Harris goes beyond linking together steps to make a cool new dance. His performances are all about narrative. In his new dance company, Grass Roots Project, Harris sets out to use dance as a vehicle for change...
Forty years of festivation
As I journeyed through the 216 pages of photos, poster art, past musical lineups and essays that make up Telluride Bluegrass Festival; Forty Years of Festivation, it struck me that the Galapagos Islands and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival have a lot in common. Both ...
Amanda Balestrieri wants to ‘see you in court’
When Amanda Balestrieri says “see you in court,” it’s an offer, not a threat.
As director of Seicento Baroque Ensemble, she knows just how much...
‘Is it really so strange?’
The last couple years have been strange for Bartees Leon Cox Jr. After his 2020 debut album Live Forever caught fire in the early...
Death in Memphis
In her landmark 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag calls photographs a testament to “time’s relentless melt.” For the influential essayist and cultural critic,...
Rolling on into forever
Last fall, Nahko Bear carved time out of his schedule as the frontman of Medicine for the People to visit the Standing Rock Reservation...
Harnessing the hummingbirds
After consulting several dictionaries, it’s undeniable: There’s a quality about Alexa Wildish that can best be described as magical.
From Oxford: magical (adj.): “beautiful or...
Adrian Belew’s killer app
After amicably stepping away from Trent Reznor’s reformed Nine Inch Nails project in June 2013 and being politely excluded from Robert Fripp’s reformed King Crimson later that year, esteemed guitarist and sonic disrupter Adrian Belew now finds himself currently on ...
Still the queen of the local scene
"I’m sorry,” Wendy Woo says over the phone one recent afternoon, “I feel like I’m not a hundred percent focused. I’m taking a defiant...
‘No rules’
It was a particularly shreddy lick in the Power Rangers theme song that made Paul DeHaven want to play guitar.
“I was like, ‘Mom, I...
Rebuilding Coliseum
"It’s just like those people that got married at 18 and stayed together forever,” says Ryan Patterson, frontman of the Louisville, Ky., punk band Coliseum...
A kind of dawn
Last December, Desert Dwellers (Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe) released a three-hour video stream set, captured last summer in a verdant clearing in the...
