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From a Window to a Screen (BellaJu Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
From a Window to a Screen (BellaJu Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
View with a Room (Blue Note Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Destiny Street Complete (Omnivore Recordings ). Review by James Mann.
Coriky (Dischord). Review by Scott Adams.
Purple Ego. Review by Stacey Zering.
Vanished Gardens (Blue Note ). Review by James Mann.
Let Me Hang You (Khannibalism/Ernest Jenning Record Co.). Review by James Mann.
After thirty years, music critic Gary Giddins is still listening, still watching, and still… writing a multi-volume biography of your grandma’s favorite crooner, Bing Crosby? Ink 19 sat down with Giddins to talk about the shape of jazz to come.
Silhouette (Skeemin’ Productions). Review by Carl F Gauze.
A Tribute to John Fahey (Vanguard). Review by Sean Slone.
Get Myself Together (Terminus). Review by Aaron Shaul.
James Mann finds that even he thinks his musical soundtrack to 2005 was weird.
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Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See (Luaka Bop). Review by James Mann.
Slingshot Professionals (Ryko). Review by James Mann.
Joyful Noise (Columbia). Review by Matt Cibula.
Überjam (Verve). Review by James Mann.
With the year drawing to a close, we thought it’d be appropriate for our staff to tell you what they thought the best stuff all year was. Features Editor James Mann kicks off with his choices for the Top 19 Albums of 2001.
Spin & Drift (Premonition). Review by Marcel Feldmar.
Blues Dream (Nonesuch). Review by James Mann.
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.