Summer Fun
Ned Wilkinson’s Spotlight Cabaret brought New Wave summer fun nostalgia from the 1970s and ’80s.
Ned Wilkinson’s Spotlight Cabaret brought New Wave summer fun nostalgia from the 1970s and ’80s.
Happy Go Lucky (Box Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
Supremely independent for going on three decades, Superchunk’s incisive nervous energy is still one of the purest indie highs you can find.
20th Century in 100 Songs (Louisiana Red Hot Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.
Good Good Man (Disismye Music). Review by James Mann.
Boy Crazy And Single(s) (Bloodshot Records). Review by James Mann.
Co-founding B-52s singer / songwriter Cindy Wilson delivers an impressive and intimate Orlando club performance.
Arthur Alexander (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.
So It Is (Legacy). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Roots Rock ‘N’ Roll (Royal Potato Family). Review by James Mann.
Country icon Jim Lauderdale is profiled in The King of Broken Hearts.
Twenty years of hard rocking leads to a nice home in the suburbs, a stable marriage and a beautiful daughter.
Boys School (Nectic Collective). Review by Carl F Gauze.
In Motion Pictures (Universal Music Enterprises). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Local Business (XL Recordings). Review by Jen Cray.
The Best of Chet Baker (Riverside). Review by Matthew Moyer.
What Kind of World (Readymade). Review by Sean Slone.
The Interpreter: Live at Largo (Maximum Sunshine Records). Review by Sean Slone.
A former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.
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.