@MatutinalLife

Writer @PopMatters

Joined October 2018
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The Best DVDs of 2025 These are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass. READ: tinyurl.com/BestDVDs25
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Initially dismissed as a film for children, Luigi Comencini's Misunderstood reveals some mature ideas about childhood and family and would sit better with adult audiences. – @MatutinalLife ➡️ tinyurl.com/2z5ef7ts
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Nothing But a Man, director Michael Roemer’s sobering look at systemic racism in 1960s America is about battling discrimination on an uneven playing field but also about tenaciously preserving friendships and families. – @MatutinalLife ➡️ tinyurl.com/RoemerMan #PMPick Nothing But a Man is available on Blu-ray from @Criterion
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We are heartbroken to announce the loss of our dear friend Simon Pearson. A world class musician and amazing friend. The years @TerrydeCastro and I spent together with him in Goya Dress are amongst the happiest of our lives. Miss you dearest Simon 💔💔💔 youtu.be/gVjXo-i9nW4?si=ItI3…
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TBT: The New York Port Authority circa 1982 - two fellas about town, smoking . . . both of us managed to quit years ago, and quite possibly the hardest thing I ever did— (Pic by Christine Rodin) . . . . #tbt #dccollard #digwayne #nyc
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PREMIERE: "aLAcarte pt. 2" offers another sweet slice of Ekiti Sound's culturally-spiced pie. It's a sensuously shuddering, percussive jam that's as minimal as it is deep. ➡️ tinyurl.com/EkitiSound @EkitiSound's new LP 'Drum Money' is out on 23 June via @CrammedDiscs.
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Cheers, Imran - I'm partial to this one as well!
Imran Khan@MatutinalLife27 Feb 2023
These are songs I still listen to almost everyday. Goya Dress, feature on the lone album "Rooms" published @PopMatters. Goya Dress was fronted by @HelloAstrid, @TerrydeCastro on bass. Here is the feature: popmatters.com/goya-dress-90… An ace Goya Dress b-side: youtube.com/watch?v=IWEBo8If…

Goya Dress' Dramatic Music Evokes Vivid Classic Imagery » PopMatters

Three-piece UK band Goya Dress specialized in stylishly baroque Sturm und Drang rock; dizzying Märchens sated with the drama of a Francisco Goya painting.

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My feature on @RobertCrayBand's 1990 release "Midnight Stroll" revisits the album's many merits. Check it out @PopMatters: #RobertCray #RobertCrayBand #Blues #Soul
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30 some years ago, Robert Cray played subtly with basic #blues convention on 'Midnight Stroll', turning it into a brand-new face for listeners who have heard it all before. "Rock 'n' Stroll: Robert Cray's Blues Stormer Midnight Stroll" - @MatutinalLife bit.ly/CrayStroll
Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

ALT Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Rarely has writing reached that soul-place within me, which both whispers and screams in its beauty, truth, and poignancy. Thank you Imran Khan @PopMatters for the beauty you bring to life, through the depths of your language and profound discernments.
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Vanessa Daou's Galactic Dance Gem, PLUTONIUM GLOW The retro-electro feel of @vanessadaou's 'Plutonium Glow' is influenced by ‘90s rave culture, which pushes Daou's usual bedroom listeners onto the dance floor.✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3MjFxTv
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Rarely does a music review rise to this level of eloquence. I’m honored and humbled. Thank you @PopMatters and @MatutinalLife for carrying the torch of art, beauty, and music that moves our souls.
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@PopMatters10 Oct 2022
Vanessa Daou's Galactic Dance Gem, PLUTONIUM GLOW The retro-electro feel of @vanessadaou's 'Plutonium Glow' is influenced by ‘90s rave culture, which pushes Daou's usual bedroom listeners onto the dance floor.✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3MjFxTv
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Thank you @MatutinalLife for your profound eloquence and supernal prose …. I’m honored by your words 🙌🏼
Imran Khan@MatutinalLife10 Oct 2022
Published today @PopMatters, my feature on @vanessadaou's 1998 album "Plutonium Glow", one of the earliest albums to be sold via the internet. A darkly charming mix of electronica, jazz, R&B and poetry, inspired by the classic novella "The Little Prince": popmatters.com/vanessa-daou-…

Vanessa Daou’s Galactic Dance Gem, ‘Plutonium Glow’ » PopMatters

The retro-electro feel of Vanessa Daou's 1998 'Plutonium Glow' is influenced by ‘90s rave culture, which pushes Daou's usual bedroom listeners onto the dance floor.

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Hey! This is a great, in-depth feature in @PopMatters about about Goya Dress. The first band I was in, founded and fronted by my wildly talented friend Astrid Williamson. @HelloAstrid!
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@PopMatters25 Jul 2022
Goya Dress' Dramatic Music Evokes Vivid Classic Imagery Three-piece UK band Goya Dress specialized in stylishly baroque Sturm und Drang rock; dizzying Märchens sated with the drama of a Francisco Goya painting. ✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3PApcLc
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Great retrospective piece in @PopMatters on Goya Dress - ‘Rooms’ 🙏@MatutinalLife @therealjohncale @TerrydeCastro @Nuderecordlabel – at Brighton, England
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@PopMatters25 Jul 2022
Goya Dress' Dramatic Music Evokes Vivid Classic Imagery Three-piece UK band Goya Dress specialized in stylishly baroque Sturm und Drang rock; dizzying Märchens sated with the drama of a Francisco Goya painting. ✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3PApcLc
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Goya Dress' Dramatic Music Evokes Vivid Classic Imagery Three-piece UK band Goya Dress specialized in stylishly baroque Sturm und Drang rock; dizzying Märchens sated with the drama of a Francisco Goya painting. ✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3PApcLc
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Gordon Parks’ classic blaxploitation film SHAFT [@Criterion] presents Richard Roundtree as a swaggering and to this day controversial action hero in gritty, early ’70s New York. ✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3yVtarQ
Richard Roundtree in Shaft (1971) | Photo: Criterion

ALT Richard Roundtree in Shaft (1971) | Photo: Criterion

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Quebec's Nicole Brossard's experimental triptych on female identity, murder and the lonely deserts of the American South. From 1987, "Mauve Desert"; feature published @PopMatters: popmatters.com/mauve-desert-… #NicoleBrossard #Quebecois #CanadianFiction #MauveDesert
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#Interview: Bestriding boundaries between hip-hop, poetry, and surrealism, poet-musician MALIK AMEER CRUMPLER forges a strange and compelling work that is utterly and uniquely his own. – @MatutinalLife popm.at/3tSY5Cb
Malik Ameer Crumpler 2022 / Photos: Anaïs Pourrouquet

ALT Malik Ameer Crumpler 2022 / Photos: Anaïs Pourrouquet

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While murder and crime certainly run deep in Claude Chabrol’s world of subterfuge, the dark desires of human nature that provoke them run immeasurably deeper. ✍️ @MatutinalLife popm.at/3yYZNW9
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“…a patient matador” Yes PLEASE! 🙏 big thanks to @PopMatters & @MatutinalLife
Imran Khan@MatutinalLife24 Feb 2022
My review of the latest album, "Into the Mountain" by Astrid Williamson (@HelloAstrid), formerly of Goya Dress, now published @PopMatters. You can check it out here: popmatters.com/astrid-willia… #AstridWilliamson #GoyaDress

Astrid Williamson Moves Mountains and a Few Souls with 'Into the Mountain' » PopMatters

Astrid Williamson's songwriting prowess as both a classically trained artist and an alternative rock maven makes the earth tremble on Into the Mountain.

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So happy to see this. A full year since its official release, my little album still has legs. Many thanks to @PopMatters and @MatutinalLife, not just for this but also for writing about my music for the past 20 years. Xx popmatters.com/michael-j-she…
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