The 1975 review – Matty Healy and co don their full meta jackets | The 1975

Matty Healy’s mid-show press-ups.

A split-level 1970s living room, somewhere between Abigail’s Party and The Ice Storm. Seven members of the 1975’s touring band enter the front door one by one, hang up their jackets and switch on lamps. […]

‘The baddest technician’: how Don Cherry is still making jazz new | Jazz

Cacophany without hierarchy … Coleman And Cherry in November 1959 at the Five Spot Cafe, New York City.

Nineteen fifty-nine was a pivotal year in jazz. In August, trumpeter Miles Davis released his landmark album Kind of Blue, which would go on to become the best-selling jazz record of all time thanks to […]

Don Bluth on ‘NIMH,’ ‘Anastasia,’ Disney feud and best films

Animator Don Bluth, author of the memoir "Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life."

Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today […]

Review: Summer docs on mother’s health, Don McLean, Nolan Ryan

A cameraman records a musician onstage with a guitar on the set of the documentary "The Day the Music Died."

‘Aftershock’ In the U.S., a lot of the conversation surrounding pregnancy — whether it has to do with abortion or carrying a child to term — is concerned more with the health of the fetus […]

‘I said, Don, it’s time for you to reveal’: 50 years later, the truth behind American Pie | Music

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A long, long time ago – five decades to be exact – America was roiled by wrenching generational showdowns, massive street protests, and a blazing array of social justice movements. Now, half a century later, […]