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Lights in the Black Box Theater dimmed before whirring back to life on a vibrant beach scene, plunging theatergoers into a haze of nostalgia.  

(Self-released, CD, digital) Vibrant, whimsical and at times a bit silly, Luminous Crush's most recent album, Incandescent, is an upbeat romp. Its 13 tracks zigzag...

Truman State University Press Lori Horvitz, November 2018 The Girls of Usually An interview by Aderinsola Adesida and Jenna Faulkner We were excited to learn that Lori’s book The Girls of Usually was the Gold Medal Winner for the 2016 IPPY Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir II and the 2015 USA Best Book Award winner in Gay & Lesbian Nonfiction. It was also the Bronze winner for Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction) and a finalist for the Saints & Sinners Emerging Writer Award; as well as an honorable mention in the 2015 Rainbo...

(Self-released, digital) Claiming that your band plays "original bluegrass outlaw country post-punk psychedelic fusion indie dream pop searing rock metal" is a bold move. Pronouncing that your new album "is about the hottest shit you'll hear from anywhere," as Luminous Crush's Ben Campbell said in a recent email, is another big swing. Though the Jamaica, Vt., "purveyors of dream-pop" may not tick all of the genre boxes set up in the aforementioned string of descriptors found on their Bandcamp page, Luminous Crush certainly strive to on their new album, Luminous Inc. And this shit is in...