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Neal Casel’s “Return in Kind”. A great collection of covers from folks such as The Faces, DQE, and Johnny Thunders. Wonderful voice.
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And we watched this over the weekend. Its as good a movie about a performer as you’re likely to see. It really expresses well the times in which Dylan worked, and the impression he made. Only bad note, it ends at the period of his motorcycle crash. I hope plans are afoot to do the rest of the story.
Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.
Phil Bailey reviews Rampo Noir, a four part, surreal horror anthology film based on the works of Japan’s horror legend, Edogawa Rampo.
In this latest installment of his popular weekly series, Christopher Long finds himself dumpster diving at a groovy music joint in Oklahoma City, where he scores a bagful of treasure for UNDER $20 — including a well-cared-for $3 vinyl copy of Life for the Taking, the platinum-selling 1978 sophomore set from Eddie Money.
Ink 19’s Liz Weiss spends an intimate evening with Gregory Alan Isakov.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.
