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Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy) Talks Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin and the Reclaiming of Meaning

Wu-Tang’s mysterious new album will not be heard by virtually anyone for 88 years. So what does it have to do with the Eiffel Tower?

March 21, 2015

Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) Talks Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood

If there’s a teenage girl in your life, you would be wise to show her this film.

January 30, 2015

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Serge Bozon’s Tip Top

The French actor-turned-director's latest fuses the police procedural with an off-kilter sex comedy in a surprising (and oddly life-affirming) way.

December 9, 2014

Regan Farquhar (Busdriver) Talks Mick Jenkins’ The Water[s]

On his new mixtape, Mick Jenkins displays a vulnerability and an urgency that put him in a class of his own.

September 26, 2014

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Tim Sutton’s Memphis

This elegiac portrait of the Southern city excels by being quietly, unobtrusively observational rather than wanting to be part of the action.

September 10, 2014

Norman Brannon (Texas Is the Reason) Talks Big Freedia’s Just Be Free

There's this Mannie Fresh interview on YouTube that I've probably watched a million times. Or at least as many times as you need to watch something...

July 1, 2014

Ashok Kondabolu (Das Racist) Talks Quasimoto’s Yessir Whatever

I once saw a briefly-posted video on the Stones Throw label's website of a lecture Otis Jackson, Jr., aka hyper-prolific producer/rapper/musician...

June 26, 2013