Caribbean Blue (Ruzztone Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Little Rope (Loma Vista). Review by Laura Pontillo.

Lily and Generoso spoke at length with writer/director Phạm Thiên Ân, whose stunning and pensive feature, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, garnered the Camera d’Or at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.

Roger Vadim’s sexy sci-fi cult classic Barbarella shines on 4K UHD.

Phil Bailey reviews cult classic Mondo New York, time capsule of 1988’s East Village underground performance art scene, starring Joe Coleman, Lydia Lunch, and Karen Finley. Keep your eyes out for the cameos in this new Blu-ray edition.

Closure/Continuation. Live. Amsterdam 07/11/22 (Music For Nations/Megaforce Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Ink 19’s Nancy Garmer takes a sweet little drive through orange trees and junk shops, winding up in the Highwaymen painting that is Lake Wales, Florida’s Orange Blossom Revue — and then there’s the music, too.

The Orcish Eclipse (Metalverse). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

Quinnie opens for The Japanese House at Wooly’s in Des Moines, Iowa, Jeremy Glazier’s favorite road trip.

Partly Cloudy (SQFT Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Carl F. Gauze digs into one man’s journey through the glory days of rock and roll in Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967 – 2007, a venture that turns out to be quite the trip, when that man is Harold Bronson, Rhino Records co-founder and obsessive diarist.

Earl is about to learn the Graboids have evolved and are deadlier than ever! Tremors 2: Aftershocks, the 1996 film by the original Tremors creative team, gets a 4k restoration for modern audiences.

RAT WARS (Loma Vista Recordings). Review by Steven Cruse.

Joe Stamm opens for Chris Knight at First Avenue Club in Iowa City, Iowa, and the audience is there for absolutely all of it.

Just in time for the heavy metal Christmas shopping season, European author Alexandros Anesiadis delivers his latest — a thorough and riveting encyclopedia-type account of the hard-working DIY American bands that created an important underground music scene that’s well worth remembering.

In a beautiful testament to Peter Weir’s vision, the director’s 1985 classic, Witness, gets a fresh restoration from Arrow Video.

When Joe Bonamassa comes to town, Jeremy Glazier is there.

Ready for a cold one this season? We thought so! Enjoy, as Christopher Long reflects on his favorite VINYL releases of 2023 — an intoxicating (and satisfying) “six-pack,” to be sure.

Concert addict Jeremy Glazier talked with A.J. Croce near the beginning of his year-long Croce Plays Croce tour about embracing his father’s music and his own while honoring both their familial bond and shared influences.

For Lily and Generoso, 2023 was a fantastic year at the cinema! They select and review their ten favorite films, six supplemental features, and one extraordinary repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals.