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Noise of Trouble (Niafunken). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Noise of Trouble (Niafunken). Review by Carl F Gauze.
A day in the life a French woman as she invents electronica and rescues France from boring rock and roll.
Music reviews covering the critical years of rock and roll from 1967 to 1973 by critic and band manager Michael Oberman.
A bright young girl is tortured by her crass parents and brutalized by and evil school mistress. And it’s kid-friendly!
Joe Bob Briggs, America’s favorite B-Movie critic, recounts the history of redneck cinema and the cultural impact of Burt Reynolds.
Punk rock takes the stage in a teen angst revolution against…whatever kids are revolting against today.
A girl’s soccer team deals with adulthood, disappointment and death.
Here’s your chance to color inside the lines while reading the story of an artist who never stayed inside the lines, G.G. Allin.
A classic Shakespearean comedy is recast and reimagined for the digital millennia.
A behind the scenes look at a major Sc-fi convention.
Kooky Spooky In Stereo (Gloopy Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Static songs from a dynamic performer fill the house at this minimalist cabaret.
While mom and dad sit in jail, autistic Carl and his friend go on a road trip looking for a climatic super cell storm.
A spacey exploration of love , pain and reality as it might exist in cyberspace.
A young woman returns from the war and struggles to overcome pain and loneliness.
Four Holmes and Watson tales enacted by a constantly changing cast.
Zoom back to 1949 as a black woman attempts to find acceptance in a midwestern academic setting.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum engages a crew of top chefs to make desserts fit for Versailles.
The children of rock and rollers look for purpose in life and follow their parents’ footsteps.
In this retro-futuristic drama, New York City is recreated on a massive scale in the Nevada desert after a terrorist attack. Things are in a bad state, but will they ever get better? After 1500 pages, the answer is: Not really.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.