The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
You’re stuck in the middle of nowhere, a hostile little hole where the residents look mean as toxic dump rats. Stranded without your wallet, without your car, and now you gotta figure out how you’re going to scare up some food and cash to call for help. Maybe if you’d read Jim Rose’s Snake Oil you’d know what to do. But you didn’t. And Ian Koss thinks you’re screwed.
Beneath The Surface (Windham Hill). Review by Dan Stapleton.
The Very Best of Erotic Moods (Neurodisc / Capitol). Review by Stein Haukland.
Buddha Bar III – Selections (George V / Musicrama). Review by Kiran Aditham.
Horizontal (Water). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
Bring your loupe and spend some time poring over the maps that open Navola with Ian Koss.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Lily and Generoso review director Gürcan Keltek’s mesmerizing supernatural drama, New Dawn Fades, winner of the Best Feature Boccalino D’Oro Award of the 24th Independent Film Critics Awards of the 2024 Locarno International Film Festival.
Channing Wilson opens for Steve Earle as Steve tours on his Alone Again Live album.
“Lonely Striped Sock,” a tiny fraction of Montreal band PYPY’s upcoming fireball album, Sacred Times, won’t get lost in your dryer, I promise.
