📺 The Media Guide S7E10

Better late than never, but it's been a busy, busy beginning of the week and month. June issues for Foofaraw and QB went out, QB announced April CRUMBS winners and our June theme (open for submissions), still diving through new submissions, editing stories, building out the site, bringing on more cartoonists, prepping our third novelette for publication very, very soon, and getting ready to open up contest spots. Safe to say we've been busy out here. There wasn't a weekend edition this past weekend given all the newsletters that have been dropping in inboxes these last few days, but rest assured, we will cover it all in this upcoming weekend edition.

And now it's a about time we got this show on the road!

🎵 A Way In by Mitchum Yacoub

I absolutely love this jazzy album. Lots of instrumental jazz, a couple features with some really soulful, beautiful singers. I am not surprised at all that Mitchum seems to be a percussionist/drummer first, then a producer and multi-instrumentalist. I always gravitate towards albums that are drummer-led like Black Classical Music by Yussef Dayes.

You can just feel the groove, the liveliness, as it all comes together in such a delightful way. A Way In brings a world music vibe to things, with African, reggae, and even some Middle Eastern rhythms, beats, and sounds that all come together in one of my favorite albums of the year so far.

📺 Cape Fear Season 1 — Apple TV

Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson (who I'm not a fan of) are doing another remake of Cape Fear, this time as a TV show on Apple. I'm not sure I actually care, but Apple has been knocking it out of the park as of late, so I feel like it's worth at least giving a shot.

📚 The Deadman #1 — DC Comics

I'm a huge fan of Deadmen when the comics are done right. Now with this one, we've got a new series from the creative team behind Ice Cream Man, writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist Martin Morazzo. So it seems like this has the potential to be one of the better runs—a match made in heaven.

🎬 Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World)

A bit light on movies that I actually care about this week. But it's never a bad time to watch a music documentary, and Earth, Wind & Fire have obviously meant so much to the world of music. I don't actually know much about them outside of my favorite songs, so I'm excited to check this out and learn more about them.