Archive: 2025

Film criticism teaches you to see what others miss. It’s not just about liking or disliking movies. It’s about understanding how visual storytelling works. Media students who develop critical analysis skills stand out. They can break down why a scene works. They spot editing choices that create emotion. They understand how sound design shapes viewer […]

Film studies don’t show old movies just because they’re famous. These films teach specific lessons about how cinema works. You learn to spot techniques that shaped everything you watch today. Classic films show you where modern movies come from. That tracking shot in your favorite action film? Directors were doing that in the 1950s. Once […]

For a special New Year’s Eve edition of Weirdo Wednesday, we’re throwing it all the way back to the dawning of the new millennium with this characteristically uncanny performance of “The Anchor Song” by Bjork from December 31, 1999. While the song has become a bit of a tradition around New Year’s Eve for Bjork […]

Few events in Portland, Oregon feel like as much of a holiday tradition as Jerry Joseph’s annual New Year’s Eve run. Typically taking place at two venues over four nights, the run finds this venerable rocker and his band the Jackmormons giving the Rose City a running party during a time when concerts slow down. […]

Continuing our spotlight on infamous New Year’s Eve gigs from yesteryear, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re serving up the Grateful Dead’s classic 1978 performance that effectively closed out the illustrious Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. After rousing opening sets from the New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Blues Brothers, the Dead didn’t even […]

Meredith Moon’s third album, From Here To The Sea, marks a subtle but confident evolution for the Canadian-born songwriter and instrumentalist. Where its predecessor, Constellations, leaned deeply into Appalachian old-time traditions, From Here To The Sea widens the frame—embracing blues, folk, folk-rock, and even traces of old-time jazz, while placing Moon’s songwriting firmly at the […]

With New Years’s Eve right around the corner, it seems fitting to revisit some classic NYE performances from yesteryear. Kicking things off on the Manic Monday front today, we’re serving up the Ramones legendary concert at the Rainbow Theater in London from December 31, 1977. The show became “It’s Alive” (titled after the 1974 horror […]

On The Map is where we highlight famous, and not as well-known, musical sites that you can visit. This month we check into the newly opened David Bowie Centre in London. Let’s explore! THE SITE On September 13, 2025, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London held the grand opening of the David Bowie Centre […]

There has been a lot of talk about Hip-hop since it dropped from the top of the charts over the past few years. Country music with a pop edge has become the new norm for TikTok trends and the Billboard charts, removing the genre from the monotonous top it had occupied for years. This occurrence […]

Alison Krauss & Union Station had already been together in various forms for more than a decade by the time their Live album was recorded in 2002. Krauss emerged as a prodigy in the bluegrass world, but Union Station became the vehicle that allowed her to broaden that tradition. With Ron Block on banjo, Dan […]