THRU Magazine Archive
Silver Ochre’s road video gets to the heart of America. Thollem McDonas and partner Angela C. Villa have been on the road together, on and off, for over a decade. It was around seven years ago that I first learned of Thollem, the local avant-garde music scene was buzzing when he came to town. He […]
I guess he really is the most influential pop bassist. I had always regarded Jaco Pastorius with a certain distaste, as the artist who ruined Weather Report, a 1970’s jazz fusion band whose influential sound helped pave the way for electronic music as we know it today. For me, Sweetnighter stays in my vinyl collection, […]
Two new music videos from Radiohead coincide with A Moon Shaped Pool. There are Radiohead fans. There are Paul Thomas Anderson fans. Then there are those who love both: That is me. Some time around my late teenage years, I discovered the artistic relevance of these talents before I understood anything about artistic relevance. Because […]
Finding Vivian Mayer Maier It was several years ago now that the street photography of Vivian Maier swept social media users into great curiosity. Her secret cache concentrating over 100 thousand pictures, from the 50’s through the 80’s, had been uncovered by an equally obscure person, John Maloof. He built a website under the posthumous […]