The Opener is The FADER's short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. It’s 2013, and Riley Joyner is about to leave on tour to play bass in her old band. The florist ...

Anytime I hear anything that gives me that early Nine Inch Nails feeling, I get excited. Madison Woodward, from the great California hardcore band Fury, recently formed a new group called Purest Form ...

Chinese writer-director Jia Zhangke examines upheaval in modern China in his latest film, a gripping drama of crime and punishment about a woman and her gangster boyfriend. This is FRESH AIR. Many ...

Somewhere in the middle of the film, observing a dormant volcano from a distance, Jianghu crime syndicate gangster Bin (Fan Liao) and his girlfriend Qiao (Tao Zhao) talk about how the ash of the ...

How different are club dance floors and hardcore mosh pits, really? Purest Form want to combine the two. The supergroup consists of guitarist and programmer Madison Woodward of Fury and Object of ...

When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By A.O. Scott Back at the turn of the millennium, in the northern Chinese industrial ...