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Automatic Writing Machine. Review by Scott Adams.
Sound Salvation is resurrected with a howlingly good Halloween playlist that will weak the dead at your All Hallow’s Eve bash.
Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters (American Laundromat). Review by May Terry.
Fracture. Repair. Repeat. (Metropolis). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The Hunting Room (Manufacture). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Trouble Will Find Me (4AD). Review by Jen Cray.
Merchandise makes Gainesville, and Matthew Moyer, swoon like teenagers at an early ’90s Morrissey concert… and that’s a very, very good thing.
There’s more to Orlando than Disney World, like great four-day music festivals headlined by great bands. Jen Cray caught Cults and Spectrals as part of the Orange You Glad Music Festival at The Plaza Live Theatre.
Skying (XL). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Betrayal of Hearts (Sovereign States). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Zonoscope (Modular Recordings). Review by Jen Cray.
Lit from Within (Parliament of Trees). Review by Tim Wardyn.
The Fountain (Ocean Rain). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Because Because Because (Pound You Into the Ground Records). Review by Robert Sutton.
The Thermals are keeping the vitality of mid ’90s-styled indie rock alive and well.
Islands (Labrador Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.
Priceless Concrete Echoes (Citizen). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar). Review by Matthew Moyer.
A.J. Croce celebrates the 50th anniversary of his father, Jim Croce’s, three ground breaking albums, with a nationwide tour of Croce Plays Croce.
High Above Harlesden 1978 - 2023 from On-U Sound collects 60 dub and reggae tracks from Creation Rebel, an astounding set of musicians.
Gerta O. Egy’s beautifully drawn fungi almost eclipse their fairyland habitats in her Mushroom Daydream Coloring Book.
One of the last of the classic wuxia swordplay films stands as a fitting coda to the grand period of the genre. Phil Bailey reviews a new Blu-ray release of the 1975 film The Valiant Ones.
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Smash Mouth takes us back to The Brady Bunch circa 1973, with “Sunshine Day,” featuring Barry Williams, the original Greg Brady.
Not everyone can be excited by blocks spinning on a screen, but if you are, Ian Koss recommends you pay attention to Best of Five.
The final two films in the bonkers Hong Kong action comedy series The Inspector Wears Skirts hit Blu-ray from 88 Films.
A pair of early “girls with guns” action films from superstars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock have arrived from 88 Films.