A special celebration of Akira is coming up this weekend with the Ghibliotheque podcast team

The team behind the Ghibliotheque podcast will celebrate the 35th anniversary of director Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s iconic and game-changing anime, Akira, introducing a special screening of the film in Lancaster this Saturday, 28th January 2023. Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is being rebuilt post World War III when two high school dropouts, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble across a secret government project to…

julien baker: 2016 / 2021

A Video Essay Tribute To Phone Booths In Film

Apart from being an excellent film magazine Little White Lies are garnering a reputation of some brilliant Video Essays. Majority of those Essays come from the creative minds of  Luís Azevedo and Jake Cunningham, like The Art Of Social Distancing. This one came out just as the first lockdowns, a fun way to socially distance using Wes Anderson films.

Their latest fun video essay includes Wes…

DECIDE BY FRIDAY PROMOTE DIY COMMUNITY IN VIRGINIA, DISCUSS THEIR FAVORITE HOUSE SHOWS, AND PREPARE TO PLAY POUZZA FEST IN MONTREAL

INTERVIEW BY JOE FITZPATRICK PHOTOS BY JAKE CUNNINGHAM AND TINA MYATT

Forged through a love and passion for “do it yourself” ethics, as well as musical influences such as punk, emo, post-hardcore, progressive rock, blues and hip hop, guitarist Robert “Bobby” Ball, drummer/vocalist Dave Gilmore, and bassist Jacob W.A. Lawrence formed DECIDE BY FRIDAYbased in the capital of the Commonwealth,…

Photo by Phoebe Fox

There are some bands and artists that I seem to end up tracking for months or even years before putting pen to paper. The Tones are one such band. It wasn’t through lack of interest in what they were up to – just that for a band with such a burgeoning reputation as a live act I didn’t really feel I could write about them until I’d seen them perform. I put that right by…

MEMBERS OF HOLD TIGHT! SWITCH ROLES TO FORM TEEN DEATH AND WRITE “GET TO THE POINT DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO” PUNK SONGS FOR CRAWLING EP

INTERVIEW BY ALEXIS PASCHAL

PHOTOS BY ALEXIS PASCHAL AND JAKE CUNNINGHAM

VIDEO BY CHRIS AVIS

Though little has been known about them until recently, TEEN DEATH have been making music and playing shows together for the past two years, and even longer as their pop punk band HOLD TIGHT!, which includes bassist/vocalist James Goodson, who plays bass in HOLD TIGHT!, and drummer Eric Kelly, who plays…

Jake Mayday - Memory's Lament / I Hope You Die

I, I hope you die, you die of old age. Surrounded by friends, in a comfortable place. For some of my friends, it didn’t work out that way.