Year-End Record Roundup
Parched staff writer Christopher Long reveals the album “six-pack” that quenched his thirst best in 2022.
Parched staff writer Christopher Long reveals the album “six-pack” that quenched his thirst best in 2022.
The Future Bites (Caroline International). Review by James Mann.
20th Century in 100 Songs (Louisiana Red Hot Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Fine Line (Columbia Records). Review by Christopher Long.
A Nubian princess captured by the Egyptian falls in love with her captor, and then things spiral into musical theater.
Campers freak out when a murderer is on the loose and they have no cell phone reception.
A Nubian princess captured by the Egyptian falls in love with her captor, and then things spiral into musical theater.
Julius C Lacking has an evening of reflection at Red Rocks with some ’80s memories.
Blood (Fuzze-Flex Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Texas Piano Man (New West Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
Blue Room (Ruf). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Slings & Arrows (SBS Records). Review by James Mann.
Doyle Bramhall II gives Clearwater the blues, and Michelle Wilson loved it!
Hi Honey (Contender Records). Review by Jen Cray.
Sunday Morning Record (BOH Records). Review by James Mann.
In2ition (Sony Music Entertainment / Master Works). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Elton John has taken his Greatest Hits Tour on the road. What better time to finally catch the master songwriter, thought Jen Cray , and rightfully so.
Lady Gaga brings her Monster Ball Tour and the songs we all love to pretend we don’t love to a sold-out Orlando crowd. Even Jen Cray can’t help but dance.
Angles (RCA/Rough Trade). Review by Jen Cray.
Carl F Gauze is overwhelmed by Rob Roth’s glossy, artsy rock and roll promotion obscurities.
This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.
Late bloomer Tony Bowman spins a tale of past decades with a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack.