New Jazz Releases:
Will Bernard –
Ancient Grains (PosiTone): “Will Bernard offers up a hearty meal of tastes and styles from his own harvest of ”Ancient Grains” on his third release for Posi-Tone. With a modern jazz sensibility and elegantly lyrical compositional focus, the crux of this brilliantly evocative musical program remains focused upon the fingers and strings of the expressive guitarist himself. Meanwhile the masterful contributions of B-3 organist extraordinaire Sam Yahel and the explosive metrics of drummer Donald Edwards provide several melodic highlights in addition to the rhythmic support necessary to keep the session deeply in the pocket. Some of our fans may already be familiar with his earlier work, but we think now is definitely the time for a new generation to discover the bold guitar mastery of Will Bernard! To this end, we strongly believe a steady diet of “Ancient Grains,” with its balanced menu of straight ahead performances from the funky and so
The 127 Year History of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film
By Abby Monteil, Stacker News
On 6/15/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago. But due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to be queer in most early mainstream Hollywood films, a brief relaxation in Germany s film production code in the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like
Mikey Lion
The producer s recently released debut LP For The Love is the 100th release on Desert Hearts Records.
It s unclear where Mikey Lion would be today if he hadn t taken DMT in his dad s backyard nine years ago. He was, he now estimates, roughly one minute into his trip when the trees which had previously only represented yard work started talking to him. Every single branch on every tree and every plant, everything was looking down on me going Yes! Yes! Yes! with these huge s t-eating grins, he recalls.
Lion then realized that the 40-foot palm trees were not just talking, but talking about him. I’m freaking out at this point, he says, because I’m on their level, and I can understand what they’re saying about me, and they’re saying, How amazing is this that he finally understands that we’re just as alive as he is? ”
Festival season is back, even if it looks a little different.
After spending last year’s Memorial Day Weekend a time usually filled with friends, fun and music festivals instead alone at home while wiping down your groceries and doom-scrolling on social media, this year live events are slowly popping back up, like flowers after a long frost. Though we’ll have to wait just a while longer to congregate
en masse at the Polo Fields for Coachella or in the desert for EDC Las Vegas, this weekend in particular demonstrates that festival season is coming back, even if it looks a little different due to various COVID-related policies.
Bluegrass music hails from the rolling hills of Kentucky, but fans of Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin know the musical style fits quite well between.