Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 092, August 2021 DOZE DOSING | shared_DOCS_w/_u As an educator Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens spent much of the pandemic interacting with students online and using digital cloud resources and tools to receive work and transmit various forms of feedback and analyze data. As a way to cope Stevens […]
Single Sentence Fiction For People Who Really Don’t Enjoy Reading By Brian Polk Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 092, August 2021 My Attempt To Become More Cultured By Listening To Opera Lasted Two Minutes Turns out, I really don’t like opera, and there’s simply nothing I can do about that. I’m Doing A Crossword
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 091, July 2021 NECROPANTHER | IN DEPTHS WE SLEEP This concept EP was performed and produced during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown while the band members couldn’t work together in a physical space. Perhaps this serves to explain why a band that normally writes music about a dystopian future set these
The Uncultured Critic, Part II By Brian Polk Art By Tyler Gross A few months ago, I debuted this column in which I review pertinent cultural manifestations such as books, movies and records without actually reading, seeing or hearing them. I figured as long as I had a forceful perspective that I stated very loudly
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 090, June 2021 Eolian | Division Ian O’Dougherty is no newcomer to conceptual song cycles. One of his old bands Uphollow crafted ambitious art rock and pop songs from the late 90s onward. This 2021 release from Eolian drew from O’Dougherty’s Zen-like observations about tragedy and disaster
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 089, May 2o21 American Culture | For My Animals For its latest album, American Culture seems to have imploded the tropes of indie rock of the past decade and assembled something fresh out of the ruins. You hear echoes of psychedelia, surf, post-punk and garage in the
Shortened Fiction By Brian Polk Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 089, May 2021 The Moment I Realize I Drink More Now Than My Recovering Alcoholic Friend Ever Did “Wait,” I say as I run the numbers on just how bad of an alcoholic my friend Richie used to be. “So you were drinking every
Dirty Spatula Fiction By Brian Polk Art By Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 088, April 2021 Look for the phrase “Dirty Spatula” strategically placed in each story. The Sticky Spot on the Floor Grew Last Night “The sticky spot on the kitchen floor sure seems like it grew exponentially last night,” I told my roommate when
April Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 088, April 2021 Orbit Service | Don’t Get Lost It is perhaps with some irony that this album took on the title of one of its songs because Randall Frazier has long created music under the Orbit Service moniker that makes getting lost in it desirable even
Out With The Introspection By Brian Polk Art By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 083, March 2021 While my brain may reap the benefits of millions of years of evolution, all too often it’s wasted on the random, weird thoughts that I have throughout the day. (Though I suppose it could be worse. I could waste