Review
This Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical is a sprawling political manifesto poetically transcribed into a visual symphony of music and images.
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The script is credited to five writers and, well, too many cooks spoil the bouillon.
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Solid Sound is like a family picnic for stylistically open-minded musicians and fans alike within the brick-mill infrastructure of MASS MoCA.
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So what if the American empire is doing more and more poorly? All that matters is hopping in alongside Tom Cruise for a super-duper roller-coaster ride inside an F-18.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Hellbender is not just a fabulous indie film about witches, it’s also an original coming-of-age horror movie.
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Legendary percussionist Bill Bruford’s recorded output reveals him to be a restless innovator who went from one band to another so he could learn more about his instrument and about himself as a musician.
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Crescent gives us the first five songs of the I Am The Moon suite and runs about 35 minutes. Let me rephrase that: it runs about 35 perfect minutes of music.
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It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.
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We’d returned to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. We’d ridden a paddle-wheeler on the Mississippi River. It was good to be back, and why we’ll go back every chance we get: to life.
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