Sound The Drum (The Collective CA). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Jail House Bound: John Lomax’s First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933 (Global Jukebox / West Virginia University Press). Review by Carl F Gauze.
It’s tough being Richard Thompson. Luckily he decides to disregard the past and stay firmly rooted in the now with a sparkling set of new songs.
Through Low Light And Trees (Year 7). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Red Sugar (Sub Rosa). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Prepare for Black & Blue (Ruffshod Records / Nettwerk). Review by Al Pergande.
Chapin Sisters Two (Lake Bottom). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Pumice’s Stefan Neville talks with Aaron Shaul about his unique fusion of catchy pop and guttural noise, the pains of self-releasing music, and his exponentially growing discography.
The Horse Power EP (Quite Scientific Records). 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.
Tin Can Trust (Shout! Factory). Review by Carl F Gauze.
No Ghost (Bella Union). Review by Jeff Schweers.
In Person and on Stage / Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows (Oh Boy Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Tim Footman’s biography describes the sexual, intellectual, depressing romantic that is Leonard Cohen, leaving Jessica Whittington no choice but to put a little whipped cream on it and eat every word with a spoon.
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends (Light in the Attic). Review by Carl F Gauze.
True Love Cast Out All Evil (Epitaph). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Is Passed in Sleep; At Night He Hunts (Jumberlack Media). Review by Nora Richardson.
Is Passed in Sleep; At Night He Hunts (Jumberlack Media). Review by Nora Richardson.
Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” is cinecast in HD to theaters across North America, and Carl F Gauze witnesses radio on the big screen.
There’s only one man whose swagger can quiet a crowd of 600,000 people on the cusp of rioting. His name is Leonard Cohen, and once again the poet/musician surfaces from images of the past.
From an underground band that pioneered the thrash metal sound, to arguably the biggest rock act in the new millennium, Metallica has had a long and tumultuous history. Ben Apatoff scours a myriad of sources to catalog this history in his new book.
Shortly after AFI Fest 2021 wrapped, Generoso spoke at length with director, Araceli Lemos about her award-winning and potent feature debut, Holy Emy. Lemos’s film uses elements of body horror in her story about the exoticization of two Filipina sisters living in Greece and how that exploitation creates a distance between them.
A woofin’ good time with cuts from Hank Williams, Muddy Waters, Delta Moon and more from KMRD 96.9, Madrid, New Mexico!
Absurdism with a healthy dose of air conditioning.
Like pre-teens throwing every liquid into the kitchen blender and daring each other to drink the results, Woody and Jeremy fuse all manner of sounds legitimate and profane into some murky concoction that tastes surprisingly good.
Synapse Films reissues Lamberto Bava’s epic ’80s gore-filled movies Demons and Demons 2 in beautiful new editions.
Searching for the Disappearing Hour (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Earlier this year, director Payal Kapadia was awarded the Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) for best documentary at the 74th Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature, A Night of Knowing Nothing. Lily and Generoso interviewed Kapadia about her poignant film, which employs a hybrid-fiction technique to provide a personal view of the student protests that engulfed Indian colleges and universities during the previous decade.
A classic children’s tale re-imagined by America’s greatest composers.
