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Josh Sczykutowicz is a young writer from central Florida. He has been published in Flash Fiction Magazine, Polychrome Ink and Across the Margin, among others. You can follow him on twitter @jsczykutowicz1, WordPress at https://joshsczykutowicz.wordpress.com/ and tumblr at http://joshsczykutowicz.tumblr.com/

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Feature | Kanye West: Living At the Top of the Mountain

Josh Sczykutowicz Jan 17, 2017 0

Opening the doors for more vulnerability in hip-hop than almost any other record of the decade, Kanye West’s 2008 808s & Heartbreak has been cited as a key reason artists like Frank Ocean were able to find their audiences. It is an…

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Review | Nine Inch Nails spit goodbye to 2016 on the abrasive Not The Actual Events EP

Josh Sczykutowicz Dec 28, 2016 0

Nine Inch Nails Not The Actual Events EP Didn’t enjoy 2016? It sounds like Trent Reznor didn’t, either, but he knew what to do with it. With Not The Actual Events, Reznor and long-time collaborator, now-official Nine Inch Nails member…

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Review | The Weeknd goes interstellar and insular on Starboy

Josh Sczykutowicz Dec 1, 2016 0

The Weeknd Starboy At the beginning of Starboy, Abel Tesfaye sings, “I’m tryin’ to put you in the worst mood.” Luckily for all of us, he fails at this goal spectacularly, because what follows ends up being one of the most enjoyable,…

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Review | Nick Cave bares his soul on the moving Skeleton Tree

Josh Sczykutowicz Sep 19, 2016 0

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree “If you wanna leave, don’t breathe.” What kind of pain does the loss of a child produce, regardless of their age, let alone of one who hasn’t even reached adulthood? I’ll be honest; I…

Film Review

Reel Monsters | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Examines Society’s Many Ills

Josh Sczykutowicz Sep 14, 2016 1

There are many drains on society, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2014 romantic horror film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night seeks to represent most of them in some way. The film’s titular vampire character seems to be un-monstrous within the…

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The music and the majesty of the late, great Hannibal

Josh Sczykutowicz Jul 22, 2016 0

Across three seasons, Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal became a critical success and developed a rabid cult following as it weaved a narrative of the darkest forms of romance, seduction, cruelty, and terrified beauty that nothing on network TV had…

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They Took My Breath Away: Reflecting on the genius of The Knife

Josh Sczykutowicz Jun 17, 2016 0

There’s no question that, at least for those of us with predominately American sensibilities, The Knife seemed as foreign in their unashamed liberal politics as they did in their geographical point of origin. Throughout almost all of their…