On Friday March 29th, Depth Of Field is proud to present the “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel at WonderCon in Anaheim California. Since being added to WonderCon’s programming in 2012, this panel has become an eagerly-anticipated piece of the…
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Statement on Hip-Hop And Comics and New York Comic Con 2022
We’ve been getting questions about why Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining isn’t on the schedule at New York Comic Con this year, and as the organizer, moderator, and public face of these programs for the past decade+, I wanted to…
Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining Celebrates Rappin’ Max Robot At San Diego Comic-Con 2021
Comic-Con@Home presents a very special program commemorating the first Hip-Hop comic book, premiering online July 23rd at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern In the summer of 1986, a young graffiti artist and graphic designer from the South Bronx, Eric Orr, took the…
Farewell, Andy Gill.
Angry and funny. Noisy and catchy. Aggressive and tuneful. Tight and terse, or sprawling and cloying. Razorwire guitars and dancefloor synths. Rough edges and smoothed-out surfaces. Visceral passion and calculated distance. Thundering percussion and clicking drum machines. Music to drink…
Starwarsploitation Sounds: Star Wars On Record, 1977-1979 [Revised And Expanded, 2019]
[This article was originally published on July 29, 2012, and has been revised and expanded numerous times since then, most recently in December 2019.] After Star Wars became a blockbuster success in 1977, it came as very little surprise that…
Album Review: A Tribe Called Quest – “We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service”
The new A Tribe Called Quest album is really good. These are words I didn’t expect to ever write, and having typed them out, I’m exhaling, relaxing for a moment, taking a second to step back from the craziness of…
Single Reviews: Japanese Breakfast, Poliça, Dream Wife
Japanese Breakfast – Everybody Wants To Love You This song clocks in at just a hair over two minutes and doesn’t waste a second of that time, bounding from opening riff to verse to chorus to instrumental break without so…
Single Review: Primal Scream and Sky Ferreira’s ‘Where The Light Gets In’
A new Primal Scream release is always an intriguing proposition; one never has any idea what to expect. Bobby Gillespie and his band of merry men have tried out so many sounds over the course of their career, taken on…
“Never Bored, So I’ll Never Get Old”: Farewell to David Bowie.
David Bowie was a master of storytelling, of theatricality, of stagecraft, of audience misdirection. He may have been a musician first and foremost, but he was constantly playing with imagery and appearance, presenting himself and his work in new and…
Op-Ed: Nirvana’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Feminism.
As you may have heard, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame this past Thursday. And to close out the evening’s awards ceremony, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, and Krist Novoselic did something pretty phenomenal – rather…