Love, Death, and Photosynthesis
Love, Death, and Photosynthesis is Bela Koe-Krompecher’s memoir of addiction, friendship, mental illness, and the music scene of early ’90s Ohio.
Love, Death, and Photosynthesis is Bela Koe-Krompecher’s memoir of addiction, friendship, mental illness, and the music scene of early ’90s Ohio.
Hailing from the southwest of France, The Llamps build on a sound that’s equal parts New York City grit, San Francisco psychedelia, and spaghetti Western twang, which makes for a pan-global main dish.
You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
Sometimes rock and roll seems to get stuck in a rut, but The New Madness bring fresh life to a sound that was old before they were born.
Bobby Bare sings Shel Silverstein (Bear Family Productions). Review by James Mann.
Double Date With Death are loud and Canadian, and they don’t care if you don’t understand their French howling. They have a double date to get to.
It’s edgy and manic and insistent, and it’ll surely drive your lunatic friends to ask you who is making that racket. Make sure you tell them Clifffs is spelled with three Fs.
Trace (Rhino/ Warner Bros. Records). Review by James Mann.
Neighborhood Veins (Potluck). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
ST (Big Legal Mess Records ). Review by James Mann.
Rembrandt X (Records to Russia). Review by Julius Lacking.
Fade (Matador). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
The Bears for Lunch. Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
20/20–Look Out! / Ignition (Real Gone Music, Black Vinyl). Review by James Mann.
Split 12” (PotLuck/Tangible Formats). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
Carl F Gauze peers through the staticky viewfinder and sees a fascinating if incoherent collection of videos, movies and concert footage for the Guided By Voices fan.
Fate to Fatal EP. Review by Shelton Hull.
The 33 1/3 series has produced some great essay books exploring some of rock’s most iconic albums. S D Green finally gets around to Marc Woodworth’s commendable attempt to make sense of Guided by Voices’ shambolic classic, Bee Thousand.
Ten Years Younger EP (Matinee). Review by Aaron Shaul.
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.