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Four-Letter Words
- Sound Salvation
- August 3, 2020
No need to worry about offending delicate sensibilities with this playlist. We’re not talking about profanity, so just take the title at face value.
2020 on Fire
- Sound Salvation
- July 28, 2020
Sound Salvation takes on current events with a playlist addressing the current fight for racial and social justice in America and the battles playing out in the streets in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
Episode 115: Born Too Late
- The Lacking Organization
- July 17, 2020
Habibi is what happens when you spill solvent on the psychedelic garage / surf music / girl groups section of your record collection.
Episode 114: Can’t Do Much
- The Lacking Organization
- July 14, 2020
Katie Crutchfield, performing as Waxahatchee, has been slowly and steadily building her repertoire and now her talent is overflowing her banks.
Episode 113: Trou Noir
- The Lacking Organization
- July 10, 2020
Double Date With Death are loud and Canadian, and they don’t care if you don’t understand their French howling. They have a double date to get to.
Episode 112: The Juice
- The Lacking Organization
- July 7, 2020
Well into their third decade, G. Love and Special Sauce still sound like they are in no particular hurry to get there.
Episode 111: Carnaval
- The Lacking Organization
- July 3, 2020
It took Cheo a couple of years to get back into his usual Latin-flavored slinky tinkles after leaving his previous band, but we’re all glad to hear he’s back.

A Musical Manifesto for the Pandemic
- Wax On
- July 1, 2020
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians Globe of Frogs helps Jeffrey Schweers endure the pandemic in another burst of Wax On!
Episode 110: Walk Don’t Run
- The Lacking Organization
- June 30, 2020
If you’re wondering if Acid Tongue is about having a particularly caustic wit, or about some sort of psychedelic dosage, the answer is yes.
Episode 109: Digger
- The Lacking Organization
- June 26, 2020
Go ahead and call your band Great Grandpa. You better have something pretty weird up your sleeve.
Episode 108: Jaan Pehechaan Ho
- The Lacking Organization
- June 23, 2020
If a mermaid learned to play surf guitar, she could give Olivia Jean some exciting competition, at least for a little while.
Episode 107: Dedication
- The Lacking Organization
- June 19, 2020
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.
Breakthrough Breaks Down
- Archikulture Digest
- June 17, 2020
Thoughts on the closing of Breakthrough Theater of Winter Park
Episode 106: Odelia
- The Lacking Organization
- June 16, 2020
They call it Hotlanta for a good reason, but I’m sure The Black Lips have enough bad attitude to have way more colorful names for their hometown.

Episode 105: Along the Santa Fe Trail
- The Lacking Organization
- June 12, 2020
M. Ward could get by on his smoky velvet voice alone, but he also happens to be a supreme connoisseur of what alert musicians call songcraft.
Episode 104: Manatee
- The Lacking Organization
- June 9, 2020
It’s edgy and manic and insistent, and it’ll surely drive your lunatic friends to ask you who is making that racket. Make sure you tell them Clifffs is spelled with three Fs.
Episode 103: Old Engine Oil
- The Lacking Organization
- June 5, 2020
Straight outta Staten Island, the Budos Band has enough energy to power a nuclear submarine for seven months, allowing it to circumnavigate the globe three and a half times.
Episode 102: Drama King
- The Lacking Organization
- May 29, 2020
As you may suspect, Peter Bjorn and John hail from Sweden, and as you may expect, they do Anglophonic indie pop better than the Anglophones.
Covid-19
- Sound Salvation
- May 28, 2020
It’s a perfect time to bring Sound Salvation to a wider audience via the Internet, albeit in a different form.
Episode 101: Goin’ Out West
- The Lacking Organization
- May 26, 2020
The Woolly Bushmen may look young, but they sound like a rusted IROC Camaro with a busted manifold roaring out of the 7-11 parking lot.

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Debbie Deane
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- August 12, 2020
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- Screen Reviews
- August 11, 2020
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The 29th Florida Film Festival
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- August 10, 2020
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- Music Reviews
- August 7, 2020
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Shithouse
- Screen Reviews
- August 6, 2020
A darling love story with engaging characters and one of the worst titles ever.
Too Much and Never Enough
- Print Reviews
- August 5, 2020
One families indifference and abandonment gave America its greatest failure. Mary Trump explains how.
Summerland
- Screen Reviews
- August 4, 2020
In rural England, a cranky woman bonds with and evacuee boy and uncovers a strange connection to her past.
Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
- Screen Reviews
- August 4, 2020
These geniuses of early comedy finally get the presentation they are due in this Blu-ray edition.
Four-Letter Words
- Sound Salvation
- August 3, 2020
No need to worry about offending delicate sensibilities with this playlist. We’re not talking about profanity, so just take the title at face value.
A Genesis In My Bed
- Print Reviews
- August 3, 2020
Former Genesis guitarist, Steve Hackett shares his life story in his story in an engaging and honest memoir. Reading his story feels like hanging out with a friend who’s interested in sharing how he felt living these experiences.