The Roman Widow
- Enrique OlivaresThe following essay is the final chapter of my M.A. thesis Ut Pictura Poesis: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Double Work of Art. While technically a conclusion, I believe it still … Continue reading
The Strange Rooms of Fantasmes’ Redness Moon.
- Enrique OlivaresPsych-rock is an iffy matter, and even more problematic term to determine music. After all, it is all too easy to go tripping but not as easy to translate such an aesthetic/hermetic experience into something meaningful and beautiful. Continue reading
The Ecstasies of the Eye: “Pasiones Contemporáneas”
- Enrique OlivaresThe word “passion” evokes a vast well of images ranging from star-crossed harlequin lovers to the mountain hike of God incarnate, but it also happens to be the name of the Museo de Arte de Ponce’s latest exhibition: “Pasiones Contemporáneas”(Contemporary Passions). Continue reading
The Ecstasies of the Eye: A Second Look at “Del Greco al Goya.”
- Enrique OlivaresThe Museo de Arte de Ponce has its own particular way of ushering spring. Instead of the gem-like brightness the trinitaria’s red and violet, the museum has given way to … Continue reading
The Dandy’s Metaphysical Guide: The Optics of the Cruz de Malta.
- Enrique OlivaresThough the cloud is too heavy to grasp, there is still something fixed that situates its axis. Among the hot barricades of green, a looming scarlet yearns under its intensity, inviting an intenser look: the ghosts of the Cruz de Malta.
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Black Lips’ “Arabia Mountain”
- jorge.silvaThe boys are loud, debauched,lewd, irreverent and slightly criminal, just like their sound. Continue reading
Wasted Youth: The Bee’s Knees’ First EP
- Enrique OlivaresThe cover is an allotment of dreamy photographs plastered on a pale wall: a candelabra lighting an enormous room, castles unheard of, phantom self-portraits, fat dogs; memories of things that … Continue reading
The Cackle and the Fury: Campo-Formio’s “Crackman.”
- Enrique OlivaresThe latest sonic slop from these feral kids bends on a darker note. Continue reading
Struck a nerve: A look at Los Nervios
- Enrique OlivaresWith three albums and a running time clocking in at seven plus years, Los Nervios play their last show. Continue reading
Los Vigilantes and their non-stop joy ride into the outlawed heart of rock n’ roll
- Enrique OlivaresLocal greasers all lubed up with their latest hip-shaking extravaganza. Continue reading