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BBC Maida Vale Sessions (Warp Records). Review by James Mann.
Discover the songs spinning on repeat in our writers’ brains with to-the-minute staff picks—one-line reviews of new sounds and old favorites alike.
BBC Maida Vale Sessions (Warp Records). Review by James Mann.
The Good The Bad and the Funky (Nacional). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Invisible Words (Consolidated Artists Publications). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
You Get It All (Dualtone). Review by James Mann.
Dir: Nik Fackler (Hulu). Review by Phil Bailey.
Native Sons (New West). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Radio Astro (BMG). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Yellow (Movementt). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The World Within Our Bedrooms (Rough Trade). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Negativity (In The Red). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Palladium EP (Third Man). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Street Venom (Burger). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Birling Gap (Shelflife). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Covercade (Rough Trade). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
A Tribute to the Subsonics (Mandinga). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Mesmerised (Action Weekend). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
McCartney III Imagined (Capitol). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Dream Weapon (Relapse). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Yeti Season (Big Crown). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.