Stories By Michelle Lopes

Music
Album Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Out of the Game
May 5, 2026Underneath the skin of the music there is the pulse of the long car trip, songs...

Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
May 3, 2026There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...

Music
Album Review: Iggy Pop’s Après
April 29, 2026To those unacquainted with Iggy Pop's vocals let it be known that they are not merely...

Music
Album Review: The Shallows from I Like Trains
April 27, 2026If ever there was a soundtrack for a party held on the oil-drenched shore of a...

Music
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here
April 24, 2026This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging...

Blog-Music
Album Review: Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
April 19, 2026Yet there is power in childishness, and strength in it as well – there is innocence...
Blog-Music
Album Review: Hot Chip’s In Our Heads
April 11, 2026dancing in the summer seems masochistic. Yet In Our Heads by Hot Chip may very well...

Art
Art Review: Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, The Getty Center
April 9, 2026Fans of animation will feel at home here – this is an exhibit all about the...
Blog-Music
Album Review: Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan
April 6, 2026We can never rediscover the true weirdness of the 1960s psychedelic movements without abandoning our own...

Music
Album Review: Passion Pit’s Gossamer
April 2, 2026But like hunting for proof of Nessie or Bigfoot, these moments of inspiration that you took...












