Interview with Jodi Heights Coursing through the varied complexities of the night, Jodi Heights’s upcoming album Nocturne expresses a deep longing and appreciation for the dark. The 5 tracks traverse disparate feelings of isolation and acceptance, separated by Heights’s latest release “Full Moon Rise” appearing in the middle of the album. Heights describes “Full Moon […]
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Exclusive From The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival: The Whitest Kids U’ Know Discuss Their Zany New Animated Comedy Mars
Interview With Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter, and Timmy Williams of The Whitest Kids U’ Know A pinnacle of early 2000s comedy, The Whitest Kids U’ Know, comprised of Timmy Williams, Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter, Zach Cregger and the late Trevor Moore, weren’t sure if their new animated film Mars would resonate with more distinguished Tribeca […]
Exclusive from The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival: Director Elina Street Illuminates a Poignant Queer Story with “My Best Friend”
Interview with Filmmaker Elina Street Even before co-directing the Emmy-award-winning docuseries “The Lesbian Bar Project” Elina Street held a fervent desire to showcase queer stories. As a queer woman herself, growing up consuming the underground queer media that existed at the time, Street realizes the intense communal impact of representation in film and television. For […]
Rehya Stevens Invigorates Listeners with Her New Dance Anthem “Let’s Have Some Fun”
Review of Rehya Stevens’s “Let’s Have Some Fun“ Singer-songwriter Rehya Stevens has been relentlessly energizing the pop scene since the early 2010’s with her electrifying tracks dedicated to liberation, love, and living in the moment. The latest addition to her discography “Let’s Have Some Fun,” captures the bliss of relinquishing your worries to […]
Jeff Fein Reflects on Our Technological Co-dependence in “In Front of a Screen”
Interview with Jeff Fein Witnessing the accelerating rate at which our society is changing due to the ubiquitous implementation of technology is certainly fascinating and alarming. Humans routinely spend almost seven hours a day online according to the recent Global Overview Report from DataReportal. That’s more than three times the National Heart Lung and Blood […]
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: Elexis Ray Goodwin Details The Power of Following Your True Passions in “Smile, God Loves You”
Interview with Elexis Ray Goodwin A film festival debut for any aspiring filmmaker would bring about incredible elation but the premiere of “Smile, God Loves You” is especially heartwarming for writer/director Elexis Ray Goodwin. Coming from an extremely personal place, the short film, featured in the Unbought & Unbossed block of films, chronicles the life […]
The Tribeca Film Festival 2024: They’re Here Bridges a Desire For Transcendence and The Extraterrestrial
Interview with Pacho Velez and Daniel Claridge The UFO and extraterrestrial being represent more than a conglomerate of fear and speculation, that usually results in an image of a circular metallic ship and a green specimen with abyss-black eyes. There is almost a universal longing to definitively confront something larger than us, occupying the very […]
The Tribeca Film Festival 2024: Julia Aks and Steve Pinder Entwine Comedy and Education With “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
Interview with Julia Aks and Steve Pinder Truly successful comedy provokes meaningful thought and conversation from audiences, providing laughs first, but ultimately saying something more profound underneath its jovial exterior. This is a clear throughline in “Jane Austen’s Period Drama,” a short film premiering at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 7, written […]
Eamon Rush Highlights the Critical Moments That Kept Pan Arcadia Alive and Thriving
Pan Arcadia’s tagline exclaims that they’ve been “Making tracks in a Brooklyn shack since ‘21,” but recently the indie rock band has been breaking into new creative spaces across New York City. Bringing untamed energy rock music wherever they venture, Pan Acardia seeks to surprise audiences with a myriad of genres they can infuse into […]
The New Screen Fest Solidifies a Film Community at The New School
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School celebrated an eclectic display of creativity and dedication earlier this month with the 2nd edition of The New Screen Fest. Started last year, The New Screen Fest is a student-run, faculty-assisted film festival that showcases short films made by The New School students and alumni. […]
Gabe Rivera Conjures and Courses Through a Lovesick Journey in His New EP “Stained By Your Words”
Gabe Rivera is latching onto the often overlooked and even feared heightened emotionality of teenagehood in his newest EP “Stained By Your Words” coasting through various familiar places we encounter during such a formative and tumultuous time. With 5 tracks that explore different facets of a souring relationship, “Stained By Your Words” refuses to tame […]
Leo Sawikin Explores the Depths of Growth and Change in “Till You’re Somebody Else”
Former frontman of indie band The Chordaes Leo Sawikin has dedicated his solo projects to discovering the beauty in the existential and ontological. His latest single “Till You’re Somebody Else” revels in themes of rejuvenation, rebirth, and the consistency of growth we all undergo. The dreamy rhythm composed of gentle drums and light guitar strums […]