M D M P’s “Day One” does not go gentle into that good night. An incredible hard rock fury proves to be of the essence of the sound. Such an…

featured image by Maggie Chirdo * * * The Five Songbirds of Grief   Denial Canaries in coal mines alerted toiling miners to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. I once…

Old Man Brandon presents an awesome combination of rock with trap on the spacious open skied twang of “Lost”. The way he brings together the narrative style of country alongside…

E Elia’s Body(s) premiers on Friday, Sept. 24, at the Folkestone Quarterhouse in Kent, UK. This first, professionally staged reading of Elia’s viscerally lyrical trilogy of satirical duologues, each a…

At a time when young boys all over suburban America were being diagnosed with ADHD, I was busy having existential crises. I was eight years old: I’d be playing with…

A raw grit defines Taylor Caspersen’s 60s psychedelic garage rock atmosphere with his self-titled effort. The dignity shown to the sound’s origins feels masterful and the guitar riffs race on…

My father was a birder. Gulls were not his birds. But he taught me something about gulls and language: there is no such thing as a seagull. There is only…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

The Four Worst Paint Names We Came Across At Home Depot Upon Failing To Pick A New Color For The Empty Spare Room Pompeii Ruins (dark gray) A week prior,…

A Girl Called Rumi by Ari Honarvar Forest Avenue Press, September 2021 Bookshop / Amazon 350 pages – fiction   A Girl Called Rumi is a novel of rejuvenation and…

Michael Regina offers spacey, ambiently hued classical suites on the symphonic “Time’s Illusion”. The sound itself has a dilated quality to it for stretches time out into a dreamy world.…

Songs From Other Places by Stacey Kent (2021) One thing leads to another and suddenly you find yourself travelling to England to study at the school your favorite author went…

Curiosa, Grande (detail) by Marta Czok. https://www.fondazionemartaczok.com/    The interviewer arrived ten minutes late, which was not a good start. She introduced herself as Pauline, and looked twentyish, and disoriented.…

The F train is decelerating. I can tell from the decrescendo ringing off the cold steel tracks, this orchestra of New York City Transit. I sprint down the steps of…