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The Current (Potomak ). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Current (Potomak ). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
If the LAPD is hassling your punk rock show, move it out into the desert and bus the punks out to party in peace.
Bang Messiah (Smog Veil). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity (Crucial Blast). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Animal Collective put the hip-pie in hip-ster, so why was the Orlando audience so ornery? S D Green ponders the lack of love at the concluding date of the band’s recent tour with Black Dice.
The Unified Pounding Theory (Innova Recordings). Review by James Mann.
Beautiful People Ltd. (Atavistic Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
A dangerously high-quality DVD release of a Bad Seeds gig at Le Transbordeur, Lyon, France, 8th June 2001… Matthew Moyer is transported and somehow manages to get in a review from the other side.
October (Transparent). Review by Kiran Aditham.
WAT (Mute Records). Review by Matthew Damascus.
Strategies Against Architecture III (1991-2001) (Mute). Review by Kiran Aditham.
Tom “Tearaway” Schulte rounds up a shitload of new compact discs and other media, ripe for the pickings in this holiday season. Come on, Cold Meat Industry product in the X-Mas stocking is enough to make any little girl or boy dance for joy.
Flow (Thirsty Ear). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
The Death of Last Year’s Man EP and Tableland (Emperor Jones). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Einsturzende Neubauten (Nothing/Interscope). Review by Matthew Moyer
Event Review by Rob Lawi
2x4 (ROIR). Review by drew West
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.