Ryan Benk
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Ten years after their last new music release, Motion City Soundtrack is still as anxious as ever, but for different reasons. -
Heather O'Leary, professor of anthropology at St Petersburg's University of South Florida, sets the story of Florida's declining oyster population to music.
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Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney craft a kind of chemistry that is equal parts funny and heart-wrenching. -
Macon Blair's take on 1984's gore-core classic is as much a movie about love of family as it is a violent shock comedy. -
Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon say the line between love and horror is a thin one. -
Inspiration can come from anywhere. One Boston-based musician summoned it with an app. Eph See wrote the song "Malachi the Uber Driver" after a late-night ride home.
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The D.C. area band didn't fall far from the genre's tree, but it's ripping out pop-punk's more problematic roots. -
David Cronenberg's The Shrouds is a meditation on grief and obsession. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Tracy Chapman about standing the test of time and the re-release on vinyl of her self-titled 1988 debut album.
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The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.
