Opus Digest: July 2024
Highlighting some of the best stuff posted on Opus last month.
Jul 1: July 2024’s Best Streaming Titles: Taxi Driver, Aliens, Babe, Lost, Jurassic Park
Travis Bickle, xenomorphs, Baa-ram-ewe, Oceanic Flight 815, velociraptors, and more.
The list of performers is a veritable “who’s who” of indie/alternative Christian music.
Jul 3: My Cultural Diet (June 2024): Inside Out 2, Wham!, Hair Metal, Hundreds of Beavers, Star Trek: Discovery
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Jul 3: “Equinox” by Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
A five-song preview EP of the band’s new album is all that’s available on digital platforms (for now).
Jul 3: “Hold In My Hands” by Zelienople
The ambient trio’s lush new single is especially atmospheric, even by their standards.
Jul 4: Velvet Blue Music Enters the World of Zines with Small Sounds Press
It really is a treat to hold an actual zine in your hands and flip through its pages like it’s 1993 all over again.
Jul 5: Exploring the ’80s Ninja Craze
Rob Hill has done yeoman’s work making sense of the strange world of ’80s ninja cinema.
Jul 7: Getting Speculation Rules, Prerendering, and Website Analytics to Play Nicely Together
With a few lines of JavaScript, you can improve your website’s performance and still gather useful analytics data.
Jul 11: Seven WordPress Alternatives That Make It Really Easy to Start Blogging
WordPress is far from the only option when it comes to blogging, and may no longer be the best one for many writers and publishers.
Jul 12: Ian Archie Beck’s Luminous Suburban Paintings
The London-based painter’s works reveal and capture the beauty of the ordinary and mundane.
Jul 17: Horizons by The Green Kingdom (Review)
Michael Cottone delivers one of his finest albums to date, a subdued masterpiece of ambient/acoustic soundscapes.
Jul 18: “909” by Starflyer 59
The first single from Starflyer 59’s upcoming album is a delightfully distortion-filled throwback.
Jul 19: Regarding Donald Trump’s Brush with Death
I’m glad he wasn’t killed. I still don’t think he should be President.
Jul 20: Google Is Going to Break the Internet, One (Shortened) URL at a Time
And in the process, they’ll undermine their own mission statement.
Jul 24: Alien and Anime Combine in the OtaKing’s Latest Short
The one-man animation studio channels Ridley Scott’s classic film through an ’80s anime aesthetic.
Jul 25: Review Roundup: Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine
Critics respond to the Merc with a Mouth’s multiverse-spanning adventure.
Jul 27: Stop Elon Musk From Taking Your Content to Train His AI
No one should be surprised that Musk wants to use their content to train his AI tool.
Jul 27: Should I be offended by the Olympics’ drag queen Last Supper?
Weird? Tacky? Gaudy? Sure. But a mockery of my faith?
Jul 29: “Sun Colored Eyes” by BALTHVS
The Colombian trio bring the psychedelic funk.
Jul 30: Atlas by Robin Guthrie (Review)
The latest from the former Cocteau Twins guitarist is another welcome batch of his trademark dream pop.
Related: Opus’ full July 2024 archives.
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