Olivia Tremor Control
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle/ Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (Chunklet Industries). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle/ Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (Chunklet Industries). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Impressionistic Michigan documentarians Frontier Ruckus make time in their infinite tour schedule to help Aaron Shaul better understand the opaque beauty of their newest album Deadmalls & Nightfalls.
Dark Smaland (Orange Twin). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Now, More Than Ever (Three Gut). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl). Review by Jason Feifer.
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Beautiful Soup (March). Review by Stein Haukland.
Beautiful Soup (March). Review by Stein Haukland.
In the Fall of Unearthly Angels (Magic Marker). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Vells (Luckyhorse Industries). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Outside of Outer Space (Essay / Super Asbestos). Review by Stein Haukland.
On the Love Beach (Jagjaguwar). Review by Stein Haukland.
Tempelhof (MTG). Review by Stein Haukland.
Available Light (March). Review by Stein Haukland.
Doug Kabourek was once part of the band that eventually became The Faint, but with Golden Sand and the Grandstand, he’s moved on to his own lo-fi indie pop gems as Fizzle Like a Flood. Stein Haukland gets the scoop on Kabourek’s music and that unusual name.
Matt Cibula talks with The Bill Doss, co-founder of Olivia Tremor Control, as he discusses his new group, The Sunshine Fix, and their upcoming album Age of the Sun – not to mention Buddy Ebsen.
Expo 2000 Athens, featuring Josh Bloom, the Parcels, the Marble Index, Je Suis France, Seasick Crocodile, the Wee Turtles, I Am the World Trade Center, Velma, Easy, Sleeping Flies, Eight Track Gorilla, Japancakes, Kincaid, Babalu, Tullycraft, Kings Of Convenience, Masters of the Hemisphere, the Essex Green, Of Montreal, From Bubblegum to Sky, the Four Corners, VHS Or Beta, From U 2 S, N 2 Her, Electronic Watusi Boogaloo, DJ Daniel Collas, Taking Robots to the Prom, Summer Hymns, Marshmallow Coast, Junior Varsity, Dressy Bessy, Birdie, the Sunshine Fix. August 8-12 at various venues throughout Athens, GA. Event review and photos by Andrew Chadwick.
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.