Reed Jackson

Los Angeles

Culture Writer and Director at Freelance

Writer at SpringHill

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Articles

Brooklyn’s Billy Woods Is Bringing His Horrorcore-Filled GOLLIWOG Album to Dallas

4 days ago | dallasobserver.com | Reed Jackson

Rapper Billy Woods is one of those rare artists who asks as many questions as he's asked.Throughout our conversation, we spend most of the time talking about almost everything except, his gripping new record released on May 9 and got Best New Music by Pitchfork that uses horror and sci-fi themes to explore real-world atrocities like predatory real estate practices, drone surveillance and wartime immorality.
The Royal Arctic Institute: The Royal Arctic Institute

4 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson

For a band named after a fictional organization featured in a young-adult fantasy series (Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials if you didn’t catch it), The Royal Arctic Institute have a fairly adult sound — not to be condescending toward Pullman’s work, which deals with heavy themes and morally complex situations.
The Budos Band Take Seven Steps to Heaven

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Reed Jackson

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThe Budos Band began as an instrumental jam band, and their seventh album—arriving five years after their last full-length, Long in the Tooth (playfully referred to as the group’s entry into middle age)—stays true to those roots.
The Budos Band Take Seven Steps to Heaven

1 week ago | spin.com | Reed Jackson

The Budos Band began as an instrumental jam band, and their seventh album—arriving five years after their last full-length, Long in the Tooth (playfully referred to as the group’s entry into middle age)—stays true to those roots. The Budos may not engage in winding guitar expeditions (sorry, Phisheads), but the way they raid dozens of genres and styles (2014’s Burnt Offering envisioned a Fela Kuti-obsessed Deep Purple) while prioritizing grooves partakes of the freewheeling jam tradition.
Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson

It’s been nearly 10 years since Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas last released a collaborative record, yet Totality picks up pretty much where 2015’s Automaginary left off, as if little time had passed.
Concert Review: TAKAAT

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson

Farewell, Kansas City, MO5/23/2025A little more than midway through a national tour of truly impressive breadth (this was their first of three stops in Missouri alone; the night before, they were in Omaha) TAKAAT – otherwise known as Mdou Moctar’s rhythm section – showed no signs of fatigue.
Stereolab Disorients the Dream of the ‘90s

2 weeks ago | spin.com | Reed Jackson

It’s easy to forget that it’s been more than 15 years since Stereolab released a studio album. Since the group’s reemergence toward the end of the last decade, we’ve gotten reissues of their ‘90s classics, new compilations of archival material, and even a couple of tours, all of which have kept the European avant-pop band visible.
Jerry David DeCicca: Cardiac Country

2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson

In the spring of 2023, as Jerry David DeCicca was prepping for the September release of his album New Shadows, he had to undergo surgery to replace a valve in his heart. The name of this record would suggest a narrative about that traumatic medical event, but DeCicca had already written the majority of these songs before receiving his diagnosis.
Peter Baumann’s Old and New Dreams

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Reed Jackson

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysPeter Baumann left Tangerine Dream—the pioneering German electronic group founded by the late Edgar Froese—for good in 1977, after helping shape the emotive synth sound found on albums like Phaedra and the soundtrack to Sorcerer.
Peter Baumann’s Old and New Dreams

3 weeks ago | spin.com | Reed Jackson

Peter Baumann left Tangerine Dream—the pioneering German electronic group founded by the late Edgar Froese—for good in 1977, after helping shape the emotive synth sound found on albums like Phaedra and the soundtrack to Sorcerer. Since Baumann’s departure, Tangerine Dream went on to release something like 75 more studio albums, not including their abundant soundtrack work and live material. Baumann, on the other hand, has produced only a handful of records, most of them from the late-‘70s.