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Lincoln’s very own Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center has announced its 2026 Fright Fest for the month of October.

There’s a little something for everyone on Club 8’s latest album, the more-than-aptly titled Weeks of Golden Beats.

When people think of martial arts cinema icons who’ve shuffled off this mortal coil, the first names that come to mind are probably Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.

My time for gaming is pretty limited these days, so I can only allow myself to get excited about a handful of times every year.

Prior to forming Faith and the Muse in 1993, Monica Richards and William Faith were already veterans of the goth and post-punk scenes; Richards was formerly the lead singer of Washington D.C.’s Strange Boutique while Faith had performed with Shadow Projec…

Earlier this year, Vini Reilly released Renascent, the first new Durutti Column album in almost sixteen years.

If you’ve read my political posts, then you’ve probably seen me bring up “cultural hermeneutics” at least once or twice before.

After a late summer heat wave, it’s finally begun cooling down here in Lincoln, to the point where I’ve actually felt the need to don a pullover before stepping outside.

I love the World Cup for the same reason I love the Olympics: I believe both give us a foretaste, however slight, of what awaits us at the end of days, when all the world’s nations shall gather to bring their “glory and honor” into the New Jerusalem.

After releasing several acclaimed albums of lush dream pop, Love Spirals Downwards called it quits following 1998’s Flux.

Stavesacre recently announced that their sophomore album, 1997’s Absolutes, will be reissued on vinyl.

After the one-two punch of “The Best of Both Worlds” in seasons three and four, the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation had a problem: They had done too good a job of making the Borg a terrifying, galactic-level menace and didn’t really know what…

According to the bio on his Bandcamp page, Oscar Robertson (aka, Sholto) grew up with “a love for jazz, soul, krautrock and 60s & 70s soundtracks.”

This past weekend, a Spirit of Talk Talk concert event gathered together a group of musicians to pay tribute to the seminal post-rock group and celebrate the 40th anniversary of their third album, The Colour of Spring.

Takashi Yamazaki is pulling out all of the stops for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to 2023’s acclaimed Godzilla Minus One.

When Gene Roddenberry and his team set out to revive Star Trek two decades after the original series’ run, arguably one of their biggest challenges concerned their biggest star: the U.S.S.

I could’ve sworn I already posted something about Ladytron’s recent KEXP performance, but I couldn’t find anything in the archives, so allow me to address that oversight now.

The phrase “Black is beautiful” was popularized by photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite, whose work during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s documented life in Harlem and Africa as well as numerous artists and celebrities, including the Jacksons, Nina Simone, James Br…

For well over two decades now, Chicago’s Russian Circles have been serving up in-your-face instrumental post-rock that definitely hews to the “rock” side of that equation, with pummeling rhythms and face-melting riffs that draw equally from the realms of…

There’s not much information about Martin Jarl on the interwebs beyond an Instagram page that’s primarily videos of him coaxing a variety of dubby textures from his samplers and sequencers.

In order to better track my various cultural experiences (e.g., movies, TV shows, books, restaurants), I’ve created the Cultural Diet.

While trying (unsuccessfully) to hunt down a song that he heard on the radio one night, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner discovered “lined out singing,” a form of a cappella call-and-response gospel singing that originated in Scotland during the 1800s and was broug…

As Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, et al. add more content, it can be difficult to know what to look for amidst all of the new titles.

I’ve been reading Polygon for a long time now, and I recently noticed that they’ve adopted an “interesting” editorial approach to their articles’ headlines.

It’s been a long and circuitous route for Coyote vs.

There was a time when Sass was a critical part of my web development toolset.

Along with artists like The Advisory Circle, The Focus Group, and Pye Corner Audio, Belbury Poly has long been one of the leading lights of hauntology, that bizarre little musical genre that loves to imagine alternate pasts and the future as envisioned by…

When César Alexandre passed in 2021 due to COVID, the world of dark ambience lost a truly special voice.

Originally published in 1936, At the Mountains of Madness is one of H.

I’m a pretty nostalgic person, so on the one hand, I get why some people are excited about the potential return of Myspace.

What do you think of when you hear the term “techno”?

I went through a brief yo-yo phase in junior high during which I picked up a few tricks, including “Around the World,” “Rock the Baby,” and “Walk the Dog.”

I continue to push for “Weird Al” Yankovic to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show, but in the meantime, we’ve got this recent NPR Tiny Desk concert.

My wife and I recently began working our way through the Book of Acts, which chronicles the earliest days of the Church following Jesus’s ascension.

I wrote about Desiderii Marginis’s Live in Zagreb earlier this month, and what does Johan Levin do less than two weeks later?

Swervedriver’s debut album, Raise, turns 35 this year, and to mark the occasion, the shoegaze legends are releasing the album’s original demos.

Although she’s been quite active over the last 5 – 6 years, Finnish pianist and composer Julia Andersson has only released one album to date: 2023’s excellent Dröm.