BRDCST

By Martin Longley

JUNE 2023 | Music

There are few festivals where all musics are equal. Big Ears (Knoxville) and Le Guess Who (Utrecht) might make good examples. In Brussels, BRDCST (Broadcast, or Breadcrust?) operates on an intimate level, still incorporating significant artists, but not overcrowding the adventurous Ancienne Belgique venue, which is itself a home for all styles, filling its calendar with rock, electronic, hip-hop, jazz, folk, and global sounds. BRDCST proclaims itself as “the ideal antidote for paranoia and hysteria.”

Michael J. Seidlinger & Dashiel Carrera

By John Domini

SEPT 2022 | Books

Michael J. Seidlinger’s Anybody Home? and Dashiel Carrera’s The Deer both deliver the goods, I’m happy to say; they prickle the back-hairs deliciously. What’s more, the dreadful material is matched by unsettling craft.

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By Peter Covino

MARCH 2023 | Poetry

Peter Covino is a poet, editor, and translator whose poems are widely published in the U.S. and Italy. He’s the author of four books including Cut Off the Ears of Winter and The Right Place to Jump. A former social worker in NYC, he’s currently an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode. He’s one of the founding editors of Barrow Street Press, and the Ocean State Review. You’ll learn more than you need to know about him if you google or at petercovino.com.

A Percussion Orgy in Tennessee

By Walker Mimms

MAY 2022 | Music

After two years of pandemic silence, the Big Ears Festival came roaring back in March. Hordes of musicians carpetbagged Knoxville’s sleepy downtown for a long weekend of experiment and extravagance.