Joseph Neff

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. Late last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislators struck a final... See more

Globally, New Zealand’s Split Enz is often categorized as a New Wave act, based on a string of albums and singles that charted in the UK/US circa the early 1980s. However, the band was formed in 1972, initially as a folk-tinged combo sans drummer before i... See more

Emerging in the late 1990s as a non-vocal studio-only acoustically oriented post-rock supergroup, Pullman featured members of Tortoise, Come, Rex, Eleventh Dream Day, and The Tower Recordings. After releasing a pair of albums on Thrill Jockey, Pullman was... See more

In Lone Samurai, a Japanese-language film from the American-born director Josh C. Waller, the story takes an offbeat path to the expected payoff. Working against the concept of multiple samurai in a samurai motion picture, Waller strands his lone 13th cen... See more

Based in Richmond, VA, The Melody Chamber features the songwriting talents of Wallace Dietz and Dan-O Deckelman, with both playing guitars and Deckelman contributing synth to an equation that’s boldly, and some might say brazenly, ’80s post-punk/ new wave... See more