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Holy Wave is a four-piece band from Austin, Texas. Their latest record, i’m DADA, is out now on Suicide Squeeze.

Holy Wave

Music

Mood Board: Holy Wave’s i’m DADA

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

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Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem) Talks with Greg Barnett (The Menzingers) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Jamila Woods is a singer and songwriter from Chicago. Her latest record, Water Made Us, is out now on Jagjaguwar.

Jamila Woods

Under the mononym L&#8217;Rain, Brooklyn native Taja Cheek has quickly become an acclaimed and sought-after figure in New York experimental music. A multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist, her songs are equally rooted in r&amp;b, jazz, noise, and pop: at once visceral, spiritual, ethereal, and urgent. Her record fata morgana will be out August 14, 2026.

L’Rain

Tasha Viets-VanLear is a Chicago-born, New York-based singer-songwriter who performs as Tasha. Her latest record, You Are Spring!, is out now on Bayonet.

Tasha Viets-VanLear

Tasha, Jamila Woods, and L’Rain Choose Fun

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

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Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay Goldstein

Jana Naomi Smith is the writer-director behind the two-time Ambie and Tribeca Film Festival award-winning audio drama, <a href="https://www.redforrevolution.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Red for Revolution,</a> a six-part series exploring love and liberation starring Danny Glover, Jennifer Beals, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vanessa E. Williams and more. Previously, Jana wrote the podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uS3Rie3yo&amp;t=11s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Built to Last</a>, hosted by Elaine Welteroth and featuring Issa Rae and Kimberly Drew, and is the creator of the meditation series <a href="https://www.jnsmeditations.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Relax, Relate, Release</a>, featuring insights from Dr. Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, Dr. Angela Davis and others. In 2024, she launched <a href="https://patreon.com/relativelyconscious?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Relatively Conscious</a>, a multimedia space inspired by the words of James Baldwin, which hosts bi-monthly in-person and virtual events. She is a recipient of the Ida B. Wells Disrupting the Master Narrative Award for her short film Baptême, and is currently participating in the Chicago International Film Festival Lab, bringing to life her debut narrative feature film.

Jana Naomi Smith

Film

Finding the Revolution Within

Julia Marchese is a filmmaker, actor, podcaster, cinephile and film programmer living in Hollywood, California. Her first film was the award-winning documentary Out of Print, about the importance of revival cinema and 35 mm exhibition to culture, and she is currently the co-host of the popular horror podcast Horror Movie Survival Guide. She recently crowdfunded on <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-know-what-you-need-a-stephen-king-adaptation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieGoGo</a> for her forthcoming Dollar Baby short film I Know What You Need, based on Stephen King&#8217;s story of the same name from Night Shift. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @juliacmarchese.

Julia Marchese

Out of Print is Back in Print!

Corrin Evans is a filmmaker exploring themes of shadow integration, eroticism, death and the supernatural. She began her career in Hollywood as an actor (La La Land, Jett) before moving into writing and directing for screen. In the past decade, Corrin crafted numerous short films exploring dark and erotic themes, including award-winners Enough and Cousins. Alongside her filmmaking, she spent many years working as an intimacy coordinator on titles including American Horror Stories, MaXXine, Magazine Dreams, and more. Her creative work also extends to live performance: she co-wrote the critically acclaimed dinner theatre experience Van Helsing’s Dracula, a sapphic reimagining of the classic tale, and performs regularly with Sweven, an erotic performance art troupe based in Los Angeles. <a href="https://fantasiafestival.com/en/film/corpus%C2%A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corpus</a>, Corrin’s feature directorial debut, premieres at Fantasia International Film Festival on July 26.

Corrin Evans

How Erotic Cinema Set Me Free

Georgia Bernstein is a Los Angeles-based writer, director and producer. Her debut feature, <a href="https://www.independentfilmco.com/films/night-nurse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Night Nurse</a>, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and is out now in theaters through IFC. The erotic thriller, set in a retirement community, explores the compulsive side of caregiving. At Sundance, Night Nurse was named one of IndieWire’s Top 5 Best First Features and included in the Los Angeles Times’ festival favorites. (Photo by Lindsey Kusterman, courtesy Sundance Institute.)

Georgia Bernstein

The Numb Stage of Nymphomania

Song of Rimbaud

Warped depravity in pop bubblegum packaging, Emma Higgins is a writer and director interested in telling stories she hasn’t seen before through a genre lens. Emma’s debut feature as writer-director, <a href="https://fela.tv/work/special-projects/sweetness-first-look/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweetness</a>, premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to rave reviews and is out now in theaters. A coming-of-age story for the digital age exploring the line between innocent fandom and twisted obsession, it stars Kate Hallett and Herman Tømmeraas. A self-taught filmmaker, Emma established herself directing commercials and music videos, helming Jessie Reyez&#8217;s music video “No One’s in the Room,” which earned the esteemed Video of the Year win at the 2021 Juno Awards. Emma currently lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys living amongst the coyotes and nurturing the filmmaking community.

Emma Higgins

Sinking into Sweet Uncertainty – Otherwise Known as Making a Movie

Writer-director Carmen Emmi’s award-winning debut feature,<a href="https://www.magpictures.com/plainclothes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Plainclothes</a>, starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and Amy Forsyth, premiered at Sundance in 2025, was released theatrically by Magnolia and is out now on digital. Set in 1997, the film follows a promising undercover officer assigned to entrap gay men, who defies professional orders when he falls in love with one of his targets. Emmi is a filmmaker with deep roots in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up in a family of farmers. After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Carmen began his career as an independent Director of Photography, contributing to a range of projects, including short films, commercials, and feature-length productions. (Photo by Lindsy Avritch.)

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