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Two Indie Distributors That Are Changing How We Watch Movies

The Collapse of the Mixtape-Album Distinction and the Liberation of Hip-Hop

Christian Film’s Weird, Successful, and Horrifying Year

Voices at the Margins of Body and Mind

“If you put twins on two sides of a lake, 50 years from now one’s going to say, ‘I’m the right-side laker and y’all suck over there,’ and then go kill them.”

Revisiting the relationship between music and labor through sonic materialism, prospective time, and industrial group Test Dept

“If one is tuned in with oneself and one’s environment, it’s like intuition or a gut feeling, or a sense of harmony. If you aren’t tuned in, it reminds you to come back to now.”

“The images are as uniquely astounding as they are mystifying, and the shot of clouds slowly covering the stars as Gunnar rests helplessly on his back is the most singular and memorable shot of the year.”

“I don’t know if I care about the idea of rock music ‘progressing.’ If it needs to, it’s not going to come from other rock music.”

“You know it’s right when it feels like it’s pulling the back of your head off.”

“The two subjects sit close together surrounded by darkness underneath a halo of city lights, and the mutual cataclysm of their past is given verbal declaration.”

“Here you are, the house is burning down, and you’re just writing about how the lights are in the fire and the smell of the fire. No! Get up, get some water, put it out.”

“Sadness is the same coin as joy and I want the two to always try and fight their way through my tracks.”

“The propensity for experimentation within the band isn’t pre-meditated… I think.”