Ink 19

On the final night of their sold-out PORTAL EU Tour, Auckland duo Balu Brigada delivered a slick, high-energy set at The Academy Main Room. DJ Ryeberry primed the audience with chaotic house energy before the brothers Henry and Pierre Beasley took over, eventually closing the night with an intimate encore moment from within the crowd itself, blurring the line between stage and audience in a fitting finale to their European run.

Ink 19’s Randy Radic talks with songwriter/guitarist Luka Nikolić, of the Serbian band Bitter Blue.

Joe Stamm and Chris Knight bring an honest, authentic music experience to a much-loved basement venue in Iowa City, Iowa.

Neko Case brings Nora O’Connor and Destroyer to Grand Junction, Colorado, on her Neon Grey Midnight Green tour — an extended love song for wild creatures of this warm, spring night.

After 50 years, Cheap Trick still looked great, sounded great, and delivered the goods, leaving 13 quarts of sweat on stage in the process.

With her latest, bestselling author and deified Fox News den mother Dana Perino delivers something of a surprise: a fiction debut that roams beyond the boundaries of her established safe space.

Tobe Hooper’s 1979 mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot delivers scares, along with a bit of generational trauma.

Photographer-turned-director Mika Ninagawa unleashes her candy-colored palette on this adaptation of Moyoco Anno’s historical manga, Sakuran.

Eugenio Mira’s unlikely cult classic, The Birthday is a meticulously curated fever dream.

Ching Siu-tung’s Duel to the Death is a masterpiece of the Honk Kong New Wave that still captivates over forty years later.