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I Will Never Let You Down (Gutfeeling). Review by Steven Garnett.
I Will Never Let You Down (Gutfeeling). Review by Steven Garnett.
Flood Twin. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by a change encounter with Julius C. Lacking … maybe it was the tags, or perhaps the artwork, but the results are clear.
New Long Leg (4AD). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
There’s no detail too small or scar too deep for Eels to pick up and examine in a wry musical light.
Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.
Deserted (Bloodshot Records). Review by James Mann.
The World of Captain Beefheart (Knitting Factory Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Horror (Sacred Bones). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Matthew Moyer declares this the best approximation of the Jesus Lizard live experience.
Ersatz G.B. (Cherry Red Records). Review by James Mann.
Seconds Late for the Brighton Line (ROIR). Review by Robert Sutton.
Your Future Our Clutter (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Fallen resembles Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, trying to get at the story of The Fall by letting everyone tell their conflicting versions of the band’s true story. And by everyone, Matthew Moyer means EVERYONE.
Hippies (Matador). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Nude With Boots (Ipecac). Review by Matthew Moyer.
12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade ). Review by Michael Crown.
The Horrors are a skinny, gothly clad bunch living inside of a late night radio flashback to the alternative side of the 70’s and 80’s- and don’t we all want to slip into that dark little world once again?! Frontman Faris Badwan answered a few questions for newly converted fan Jen Cray.
Fall Heads Roll (Narnack). Review by Aaron Shaul.
The Real New Fall LP (Narnack). Review by Aaron Shaul.
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.