Nate Schmidt

Dec 10, 2024 | popmatters.com | Nate Schmidt

Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know MIT Press Do we even want to understand ignorance in these times? Does the ability to understand ignorance still matter when we are positively inundated with it from every direction?

Nov 5, 2024 | popmatters.com | Nate Schmidt

Absolute Elsewhere Century Media Therefore, the term kosmische Musik more narrowly relates to the specific direction of musicians who, as a medium, realize life’s molecular processes directly through their instrument of electronic vibrations. The music of cells is a song of flashes organically superimposed over each other, whose moments are eternities and whose eternities are moments.

Sep 5, 2024 | popmatters.com | Nate Schmidt

We Speak Through the MountainECW PressLike anything else that was created to benefit only a small group of outrageously privileged individuals, certain universities in America divide people into stratified categories of belonging. Higher education of this sort can be a social minefield defined by microaggressions and gatekeeping, where the smallest slip-up can get you labeled an outsider. When I got into a fancy graduate program, I felt like somebody had made a mistake in letting me be there.

Jul 16, 2024 | popmatters.com | Nate Schmidt

Angel Markloid’s previous full-length album as Fire-Toolz, I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There, was a rarity: an actually scary album in the pantheon of heavy music. Screaming in and of itself is not frightening; distortion is not scary.

Jul 10, 2024 | popmatters.com | Nate Schmidt

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to HeavenConstellationJust don’t call it post-rock. “Post-” as in, the thing that came after rock? That doesn’t make sense. Nobody is singing most of the time, but if anything, this is heavier than most of the other rock you can think of. It’s moodier and, in some places, more daring than King Crimson’s proggiest instrumental meander-tracks.