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Mixtape 152 :: The Power of the One
- The Lacking Organization
- February 26, 2021
You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
Mixtape 151 :: Lovesick
- The Lacking Organization
- February 19, 2021
Sometimes rock and roll seems to get stuck in a rut, but The New Madness bring fresh life to a sound that was old before they were born.
As It Is In Heaven
- Archikulture Digest
- February 19, 2021
Shaker girls have visions of Heaven and get kicked out of their community.
My Lord, What a Night
- Archikulture Digest
- February 17, 2021
Singer Marian Anderson crashes at Albert Einstein’s place in Princeton when she can’t stay at the hotel she just sang at.
Violated Angels (1967)
- Stroke of Midnight
- February 17, 2021
Kôji Wakamatsu’s 1967 horror film inspired by the Richard Speck nurse murders is still shocking decades later.
Mixtape 150 :: Secret Canine Agent
- The Lacking Organization
- February 12, 2021
Viagra Boys don’t care what you think… there’s plenty of room for a saxophone and John Prine covers in the backseat of a 21st century punk band.
Lust for a Vampire
- Stroke of Midnight
- February 10, 2021
Phil Bailey gets contrarian about Hammer Film’s Lust for a Vampire

A Class Act
- Archikulture Digest
- February 8, 2021
A young composer joins up with a big name star to write “A Chorus Line” and then fades away.
A Grand Night for Singing
- Archikulture Digest
- February 3, 2021
Rogers and Hammerstein meet the Winter Park Playhouse in this medley of show tunes.
Mixtape 149 :: Strawberry Sunset
- The Lacking Organization
- January 29, 2021
When your arrangements are razor-sharp, your moods mercurial and psychedelic, and your melodies constantly off-kilter, you’re probably a Dutch band like Certain Animals.
Southern Accents: Weird South
- Mann About Sound
- January 28, 2021
Weird music from the south
Cassingled Out 001 – Pickin’ & Grinnin’
- Cassingled Out
- January 21, 2021
A playlist by Phil Bailey that takes a wrong turn into the funny and un-PC (even for the ’60s-‘70s) pastures of classic country music
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.

Lake Michigan Monster
- Screen Reviews
- March 5, 2021
A low budget nautical adventure filled with high concept effects.
Kinks
- Music Reviews
- March 4, 2021
Part 1. Lola Versus The Powerman and The Moneygoround (ABKCO, BMG). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
The Invisible Man Appears/The Invisible Man Vs the Human Fly
- Screen Reviews
- March 4, 2021
A pair of Japanese takes on The Invisible Man make their first appearance in the U.S.
Keep An Eye Out
- Screen Reviews
- March 3, 2021
Opening on VOD through independent theaters on March 5th, Keep An Eye Out is director Quentin Dupieux’s (Rubber, Deerskin) deviously surreal and comedic take on the police procedural.
Burst City
- Screen Reviews
- March 2, 2021
A low budget Japanese art film about punks, drag racing and teenage rebellion.
Marco Colonna
- Music Reviews
- March 1, 2021
Noise of Trouble (Niafunken). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Pascal Comelade
- Staff Picks
- February 27, 2021
Le cut-up populaire. Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Mixtape 152 :: The Power of the One
- The Lacking Organization
- February 26, 2021
You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
Buster Shuffle
- Music Reviews
- February 26, 2021
Our Night Out (Burning Heart Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Joe Jack Talcum
- Staff Picks
- February 26, 2021
Joe Jack Talcum sings Railroad Bill and Other Songs. Review by Julius C. Lacking.