9+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1284+ words) Tanner is a filmmaker and musician with a passionate urge to share his opinion on pretty much everything. Originally hailing from Portland, OR, he earned his BFA in filmmaking from Rhode Island School of Design before moving to NYC to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (731+ words) Pat is a writer, photographer, native Washingtonian and Oxford comma defender. The Washington Post called him "a talented, if quirky, photographer." His arts writing has appeared in DCist, Blogcritics and In the Muse, the Performing Arts blog of the Library…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (834+ words) Spectrum Culture Seeing live pop music is the closest thing to a speculative market there is in concertgoing. When you catch a whiff of buzz around a talented artist, the best thing to do is hop on it, lest you…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (894+ words) Spectrum Culture "Tuning a piano is about creating harmony out of chaos, and to do that you've gotta be okay with imperfection." Daniel Roher's latest, Tuner, certainly takes its title character's advice to heart. Indeed, its fusion of genre is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1024+ words) Tanner is a filmmaker and musician with a passionate urge to share his opinion on pretty much everything. Originally hailing from Portland, OR, he earned his BFA in filmmaking from Rhode Island School of Design before moving to NYC to…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (288+ words) That is not to say the songwriting is secondary, exactly. More that it arrives second. On an initial listen, Bridge Over Cumberland can seem almost too familiar: soft shoegaze with a little alt-rock friction, dream-pop melancholy and the occasional glint…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1313+ words) spectrumculture. com The three discs are broadly thematic, but with lots of overlaps. Disc one features avant-garde experimental composers like John Cage, Luciano Berio, Stockhausen and Edgar Var'se. There are also the less alien Sibelius and Chopin, plus some figures…...