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Mixtape 148 :: Strange To Explain
- The Lacking Organization
- January 12, 2021
If I could use synesthesia to describe Woods’ music, I would say it sounds like sparkling pastel day-go colors.
Mixtape 147 :: Anything For Boo
- The Lacking Organization
- January 5, 2021
There’s no detail too small or scar too deep for Eels to pick up and examine in a wry musical light.
The Feldman Dynamic: Chanukahmunication
- Archikulture Digest
- January 1, 2021
Brian Feldman and family invite Carl F. Gauze to an unstructured Chanukah celebration. On Zoom, the goyest of ALL internet sites.
Fringemas In The Park
- Archikulture Digest
- December 31, 2020
Carl F. Gauze experiences a “Socially Distanced Christmas Carol” for the 2020s
Ted Lasso
- TV Party
- December 28, 2020
Julius C. Lacking explains how this show managed to hook him in despite its lack of postmodern ironic content
Mixtape 146 :: Gear Summer
- The Lacking Organization
- December 26, 2020
It’s hard to to live up to a name like Young Fresh Fellows when you’ve been at it for almost 40 years, but good time rock and roll never goes out of style.
Mixtape 145 :: Gin Tonic State of Mind
- The Lacking Organization
- December 18, 2020
The effervescent jangle of German trio A Tale of Golden Keys is intricately engineered to make your ears ask “what was that?”

Mixtape 144 :: Model Village
- The Lacking Organization
- December 11, 2020
I am generally skeptical and disrespectful of band names with special capitalization, but IDLES look and sound like they mean business.
Sidemen – Long Road to Glory
- The Art Inside The Craft
- December 10, 2020
Jeremy Glazier talks to filmmaker Scott Rosenbaum about his documentary about three obscure but legendary blues musicians
Mixtape 143 :: Lonely Heather
- The Lacking Organization
- December 4, 2020
If you got The Nude Party to perform at your next get-together, it would be the kind of shindig that produces two marriages, three break-ups, and gossip for years to come.
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
- Archikulture Digest
- November 29, 2020
A bright young girl is tortured by her crass parents and brutalized by and evil school mistress. And it’s kid-friendly!
Mixtape 142 :: Holy Smokes Future Jokes
- The Lacking Organization
- November 27, 2020
There are many two-genre combos that will fit on Blitzen Trapper like a tailored suit, but my current favorite is “country psychedelia”.
Mixtape 141 :: Faith
- The Lacking Organization
- November 20, 2020
Sneaks uses electronic layers and a disaffected delivery to create something that lives in the past and in the future and only circumstantially in the present.
American Idiot
- Archikulture Digest
- November 17, 2020
Punk rock takes the stage in a teen angst revolution against…whatever kids are revolting against today.

The Wolves
- Archikulture Digest
- November 16, 2020
A girl’s soccer team deals with adulthood, disappointment and death.
Mixtape 140 :: Coin
- The Lacking Organization
- November 13, 2020
Raw, stinging, and pungent like a freshly-cut onion, The Bobby Lees quickly peel away their layers to share their tender, pearl-white hearts.
Much Ado About Nothing
- Archikulture Digest
- November 8, 2020
A classic Shakespearean comedy is recast and reimagined for the digital millennia.
Mixtape 139 :: Moving On
- The Lacking Organization
- November 6, 2020
The Gaslamp Killer earned his nickname by ruining the vibe of clubs in San Diego’s Gaslamp district with his incongruous DJ sets, so we must conclude those clubs were lame.
Mixtape 138 :: Political Song
- The Lacking Organization
- October 30, 2020
Supremely independent for going on three decades, Superchunk’s incisive nervous energy is still one of the purest indie highs you can find.
Back Home to Broadway
- Archikulture Digest
- October 26, 2020
Static songs from a dynamic performer fill the house at this minimalist cabaret.

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- Print Reviews
- January 18, 2021
Music reviews covering the critical years of rock and roll from 1967 to 1973 by critic and band manager Michael Oberman.
Matthew Sweet
- Music Reviews
- January 15, 2021
Catspaw (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.
The Lickerish Quartet
- Music Reviews
- January 14, 2021
Threesome Vol. 2 (Lojinx). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefe Collection Blu-ray
- Screen Reviews
- January 13, 2021
In spite of, or perhaps because of, the films’ budget and time restraints the filmography of William Grefé is not without considerable charm and which is masterfully captured in this four disc Blu-ray set from Arrow Video.
Mixtape 148 :: Strange To Explain
- The Lacking Organization
- January 12, 2021
If I could use synesthesia to describe Woods’ music, I would say it sounds like sparkling pastel day-go colors.
Altiuque
- Music Reviews
- January 12, 2021
Humo. Review by Stacey Zering.
Guitar Man
- Screen Reviews
- January 11, 2021
He’s the best-selling artist on the Billboard Blues charts, and most people don’t know his name. Who is Joe Bonamassa? Guitar Man tells you that story.
The Outlaws
- Music Reviews
- January 8, 2021
Live at Rockpalast 1981 (MIG). Review by Christopher Long.
Matt Madmally
- Music Reviews
- January 7, 2021
In The Beginning…. Review by Stacey Zering.
Dahmer
- Screen Reviews
- January 6, 2021
A biopic of Jeffery Dahmer, Milwaukee’s most famous mass murderer. Not for the faint of heart.