Most directors who make spy films learned the genre by watching other spy films. Boris Volodarsky learned it by spending...
Hannah Rae Lee just signed to Buckshot Records, and she’s already cutting a new single. For an independent artist, that’s the kind of move that either...
Breaking into the entertainment industry is hard enough when you grow up surrounded by it. Try doing it from Lima, Peru, where the path to international...
There’s something inherently stubborn about an artist who spends nearly three decades making music almost entirely on his own terms. Marco De Luca, an Italian singer-songwriter...
There’s a moment early in the official music video for “Karmic Justice” where AKASHIC GODS stands framed in deep red light, spiked headpiece catching the shadows,...
Both short films Niraj Nair has made with writer-director Mark Chan involve a moment where a character is forced to say something true in a context...
There’s a version of Brandon Serrano that never would’ve landed this article. He spent years pushing names that weren’t working, watching his friends hype him up...
The best instrumental music makes you feel something you can’t quite name. Brazilian guitarist Andre Correa’s new single “Histórias” works like that, building a narrative without...
Some artists spend years waiting for their moment without realizing it already came and went. Lil Deezull knows what that feels like. He’s been rapping since...
Trains make for inherently cinematic settings: the claustrophobia, the momentum, the fact that you can’t just walk away when things go sideways. Dennis Dewall clearly knows...
