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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Concert Review: Panchiko/Tanukichan

5 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Holly Hazelwood

Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR6/20/2025One of the more interesting phenomena in the cyclical nature of musical popularity is the way the internet allows bands that existed before their time to, one day, find their place in the sun. Behind every ‘90s/’00s band that broke up after flirting with irrelevance and obscurity is a tale as old as Pitchfork: over time, the band’s sound found itself en vogue, creating a demand that could only be satisfied by more.
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Brenda Starr

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

There’s a moment in the misbegotten, long-delayed comic book adaptation Brenda Starr where you can, for a few precious seconds, see all the promise of its mischievous cartoon glee—and it’s almost a throwaway shot. Somewhere in the Amazon, in the middle of a convoluted plot point that does not bear repeating, our star reporter (Brooke Shields) plants her Amazonian gams on a pair of crocodiles and rides them like water skis in pursuit of fame and fortune.
Robert Millis: Interior Music

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | J Simpson

Western music is obsessed with constant innovation. Maybe it always has been this way, but it seems to have gotten even more intense in the last 10 years. Seemingly every artist is expected to have “eras,” more or less radically reinventing themselves with every release. Nowadays, artists are expected to radically transform their look and style on every album.
Addison Rae: Addison

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Jeffrey Davies

“The world is my oyster/ Baby, come touch the pearl,” declares TikTok sensation-turned-pop singer Addison Rae on her highly anticipated debut record, the eponymous Addison. The album’s lyrical content is not anything we haven’t heard before from any number of pop stars from this generation or previous ones. “My life moves faster than me/ Can’t feel the ground beneath my feet,” Rae sings elsewhere. It isn’t that the singer lacks talent; far from it.
Vendredi sur Mer: Malabar Princess

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Konstantin Rega

Swiss musician Vendredi sur Mer (born Charline Mignot) returns with her third album, Malabar Princess. Still exhibiting an ’80s pop style that blends the soft and the energized, the release offers a more intimate look at the singer and her musical journey. The project evolved out of a writing residency in Montréal.
The Golden Hour: by Matthew Specktor

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt

Matthew Specktor believes Hollywood is not a safe place for anyone. He arrives at this conclusion by intertwining its history with his own story and those of his parents, stalwart talent agent Fred and mother, Katherine, who was an activist, teacher and screenwriter constricted by the gendered 1960’s expectations for women. The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood highlights the versatility of Specktor’s talent as a novelist, memoirist, historian and screenwriter.
Anthony Naples: Scanners

2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | J Simpson

Sometimes the only way forward is backwards. New York producer Anthony Naples has spent the 2020s creating what music journalist and electronic music theorist Simon Reynolds calls “conceptronica,” which he describes as hyper-detailed electronic music that’s meant more for the museum than the club. While there’s no denying the shock-and-awe that comes with extravagant sound design, HD special FX, and immersive worldbuilding, it’s also a departure from dance music’s raison d’être.
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Holly Hazelwood

It’s entirely possible that the albatross of the 50 States Project will hang around Sufjan Stevens’ neck for the rest of his days. Even though he’s released more albums after 2005’s Illinois than he did before, even choosing not to mention it can feel like a challenge.
Holy Hell! Waiting… Turns 20

2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Miyako Pleines

The early aughts were a different time. Along with low-rise jeans, frosted tips and the start of the reality TV boom, a particular film genre was having its moment: the crass teen/young adult comedy. There was Road Trip (2000), Dude, Where’s My Car?) (2000), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Girl Next Door (2004), Accepted (2006), Superbad (2007); the list goes on and on.
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Personal History

2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Justin Cober-Lake

Few singer-songwriters have been as consistent for as long as Mary Chapin Carpenter. Since her debut in 1987, she’s rarely dipped in quality, using a straightforward melodicism and notable vocal nuance to succeed across the folk and roots spectrum. Carpenter’s recent work has leaned more toward spare sounds, an approach that continues with Personal History.