Blessthefall
Spring was in the air as hundreds of complicated teens, and Christopher Long flocked to Orlando’s famed Plaza Live, giddy to guzzle the grindcore gospel of blessthefall.
Spring was in the air as hundreds of complicated teens, and Christopher Long flocked to Orlando’s famed Plaza Live, giddy to guzzle the grindcore gospel of blessthefall.
Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (Interloper). Review by Matthew Moyer.
When Dracula Thinks “Look At Me” (Southern Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Dancehall Grind (Super Hit Jam). Review by Matthew Moyer.
In Disgust We Trust (Earache Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The First Trip Out (Ace Fu). Review by Jen Cray.
Lifetime Shitlist (Shitjam Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Dulling Occams Razor (Blackmarket Activities). Review by Marty Pursley.
Heretic (Earache). Review by Stein Haukland.
Split (Boredom Noise). Review by Stein Haukland.
Split 7” (McCarthyism). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Cadaveric Necrogrind (World War III / Mercenary). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Blasterpiece Theatre (Earache). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
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.
This week Christopher Long scores a timely treasure — a near-mint vinyl copy of The Dream Weaver, the classic 1975 LP from Gary Wright — for just eight bucks.