Spectrum Culture

Spectrum Culture is a digital magazine that focuses on music, movies, food, and print media, publishing new reviews and special features every week. Known for its detailed and often unconventional take on cultural issues, it covers both independent and mainstream topics. The content from Spectrum Culture has been showcased on the official websites of numerous artists, films, and restaurants online.

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Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz

14 hours ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

As the reputation of TV on the Radio has grown over the years, their prolonged period of silence remains baffling. While the group have finally returned to the stage, the prospect of new music seems increasingly grim, the band seemingly content to revisit their early years with the knowledge that their legacy is secure. Yet, to refer to lead singer Tunde Adebimpe as someone resting on one’s laurels would be an error, as evidenced by Thee Black Boltz, his first musical project outside of the band.
Dirty Projectors/David Longstreth/s t a r g a z e: Song of the Earth

2 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

Perhaps no artist’s relative success in the heady days of 2000s indie rock came as far out of left field as Dirty Projectors. While the group rightfully turned heads in 2009 with Bitte Orca and the stone classic “Stillness is the Move,” the band’s past was rooted in far stranger places. Prior to their success, Dirty Projectors was largely just whatever composer David Longstreth was working on, be it a concept album about Don Henley or a re-interpretation of a Black Flag album from memory.
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto: Electric War

2 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Kyle Petersen

Little Barrie, the Nottingham, England blues-rock group led by the formidable guitarist Barrie Cadogan, emerged in the late ‘90s with a potent blend of old-school power-trio classicism (think Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream) mixed with contemporary currents of psychedelia and house music (Stone Roses, Happy Mondays).
quickly, quickly: I Heard That Noise

2 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

“The best kind of prize is a surprise.” Though this quote comes from the oft-maligned 2005 remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp, the sentiment does hold water when it comes to music. The sole force from Portland, Oregon behind quickly, quickly, Graham Jonson would agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly, as he loves inserting what he calls “jump scares” into his music.
Clutter: Loves You EP

3 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

Quite a few bands are rediscovering ‘90s genres like shoegaze and lo-fi lately. There’s nothing wrong with looking to the past for inspiration, but if the band doesn’t find a way to stand out, they run the risk of becoming nothing more than a pale comparison, doomed to the realm of the forgettable. Sweden’s Clutter, a four-part collective creating what they call the “head-on collision between My Bloody Valentine and some angsty local indie band” falls into this camp.
Concert Review: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

3 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Kyle Petersen

Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC4/16/2025The renowned singer/songwriter Jason Isbell returned to Columbia, South Carolina’s Township Auditorium for the first time since 2016, with his backing band the 400 Unit. The gap is noticeable for a town that he played frequently in the early years of his solo career, but it’s understandable, given the impacts of the pandemic and his increasingly formidable commercial stature.
What Art Does: by Brian Eno and Bette A.

3 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt

As an object, What Art Does takes on its own premise. About the size of an average smartphone with a simple, bright pink-and-white cover, the book grabs the eye. Part of the message that Brian Eno and Bette A. (Adriaanse) impart is that art helps us figure out what we like and what we feel. The authors also want us to see the art that not only surrounds us, but that we ourselves create art constantly.
Embers of the Hands: by Eleanor Barraclough

6 days ago | spectrumculture.com | J Simpson

It’s tempting to view history as a series of grand and epic events, full of great men pulling off dashing exploits for gold and glory, all of which can be neatly laid out in neat, tidy timelines. This is particularly true of Scandinavian history, with its emphasis on seafaring, exploration, trading and sometimes conquest. These feats were usually achieved by some larger-than-life hero, embodied in the near-mythic figure of the Viking.
Florist: Jellywish

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

Typically, people associate folk music with words to the extent that its practitioners are often praised for their skills as writers more than as musicians. They become poets, composers of verse for whom the musical accompaniment feels almost incidental. Emily Sprague exists in opposition to this common dichotomy.
Jessica Simpson: Nashville Canyon, Part 1

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Jeffrey Davies

When Jessica Simpson published her memoir Open Book in 2020, she included six new songs as part of its audiobook, marking the first time she released music in over a decade. Indeed, her presence in the music industry had particularly waned by the onset of the 2010s and while she’s still remembered best as a pop culture icon of the early 2000s, she struggled to carve out the right niche musically.