Imran Khan
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'Claudine' Is a Sweetly Embroidered Drama of Class Struggle
John Berry's Claudine is a compelling watch featuring performances that leave impressions upon the heart long after the film is over. → Read More
New Wave Musician and Poet Dig Wayne Interview
Whether a spry youth thrashing about in punk clubs, a writer publishing poetry, or an actor appearing on police procedurals, Dig Wayne's life has spanned a full artist's spectrum → Read More
Interview: Gabriel Bump
Gabriel Bump's protagonist in Everywhere You Don't Belong is an everyman who often mounts his narrative plateau with the discriminating eye of a filmmaker. This interview with Bump has us wondering, should he write a screenplay? → Read More
Chewing the Fat: Rapper Fat Tony on His Latest Work From Hip-hop's Leftfield
Fat Tony proves a bright, young artist making waves amongst the new generation of hip-hop upstarts. → Read More
All That Jazz and Then Some: An Interview with Defunkt's Joseph Bowie
Constructed with the intricacies of jazz, charged with the muscular pump of rock, and executed with punk's ferocity, Defunkt remains one of popular music's most intriguing acts. Frontman Joseph Bowie talks with PopMatters about the band's long, colourful, and arduous journey. → Read More
JuJu Charms: An Interview with Rapper JuJu Rogers
Though the rapper's skill set proves him a worthy contender against any of the reigning MCs currently taking the airwaves by storm, JuJu Rogers remains a king in search of a throne. → Read More
On 'Blueschild Baby', George Cain's Searing Novel of Addiction: An Interview
George Cain's 1970 semi-autobiographical novel Blueschild Baby, recently republished by Ecco, is a difficult and unapologetic work about the life of a functioning drug addict. In this interview Imran Khan discusses Cain's work and life with his ex-wife, Jo Lynne, and son, Malik. → Read More
Marks X the Spot: Rapper Giovanni Marks Challenges the Hip-Hop Paradigm
Giovanni Marks, The William S. Burroughs of hip-hop, offers up his thoughts on the trials and tribulations of an indie hip-hop artist. → Read More
Thrown into Relief: An Interview with Rapper Jahshua Smith
Exploring topics like poverty, Black consciousness, burgeoning love, and mortality, Jahshua Smith's latest album, They Don't Love You Like That, encapsulates some of the most difficult moments in his life. → Read More
Who Can Take Tomorrow, Dip It in a Scream? The 'Candyman' Can...
Bernard Rose's Candyman offers a moody "elegance", if you will, that's sorely lacking in other horror films of the era. → Read More
Flows Like Prose: An Interview with Rapper Libretto
Libretto's hip-hop is a ghettoblasting fusion of grinding funk, heavily strolling beats and club-noir rhymes delivered with cool clarity. → Read More
New York Minute, Hollywood Moment: An Interview With Actor David Labiosa
In 1980, I was a Hispanic in a lead role on television. It was a big deal. The veteran of the acting business for 40 years relates a wealth of memories working in the Hollywood industry. → Read More
Enthusiastic Dispassion in Eve Babitz's 'Slow Days, Fast Company'
Whether these tales are intentionally remote or the projection and appropriations of Babitz’s own afflicted desires, her ability for sagacious detail is never obscured. → Read More
Making a Sene: The Rise of Brian Marc
Brian Marc, AKA Sene, manages a minimal but heavy discipline of turntablist groove; his dream-washed music appropriates the rhythms of a casual stroll through city streets. → Read More
Taking the Bitter With the Swede: Adam Tensta's Moody Hip-Hop Soul
One of Sweden's most outspoken and celebrated rappers returns with an album of eerie hip-hop noir, where the heavy grooves luxuriate in the nebulous fog of despair. → Read More
Angela Pleasence Exhibits Madness and Love in 'Symptoms'
Symptoms reaches for a different sort of horror, the kind that festers in the obsessive minds of the romantically distraught. → Read More
The Hunted and the Haunted in 'King Stakh's Wild Hunt'
Deeply baroque and shamelessly foreboding, Uladzimir Karatkevich’s King Stakh’s Wild Hunt is a crowning achievement of Belarusian gothic. → Read More
The Veridical Dream: Running on Empty With Etienne Daho
It’s funny how a dream, which has its basis in the intangible unknown and is full of fanciful fabrications, can lead to an indisputable truth. Daho soundtracks such dreams. → Read More
An Anxious Eroticism: The Flesh and Machinery Grooves of Elyas Khan
Elyas Khans sensuously-disquieting music, in his own words, is a hallucinatory event: it embodies the kind of fear, alarm and agoraphobia we sometimes feel when weve read too many headlines for the day. → Read More
Art Decadence in 'L'inhumaine'
Smart, sharp and fashionably ahead of its time, L’inhumaine hangs in an aesthetic balance between the cerebral pretensions of a popular literary novel and the continental-chic of a glamour magazine. → Read More