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Futari
- Music Reviews
- August 30, 2021
Beyond (Libra Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Shogun’s Joy of Torture
- Screen Reviews
- March 31, 2021
Teruo Ishii’s first torture film gets the love from Arrow Video on a lush new Blu-ray.
Burst City
- Screen Reviews
- March 2, 2021
A low budget Japanese art film about punks, drag racing and teenage rebellion.
Inferno of Torture
- Screen Reviews
- July 22, 2020
Teruo Ishii’s classic of pinky violence has new life on Blu-ray.
Hot Mikado
- Archikulture Digest
- October 21, 2018
What if Gilbert and Sullivan did “Chicago” with the cast of “Happy Days”?
Sisyphean
- Print Reviews
- May 10, 2018
Japanese sci-fi at its weirdest.
Ramen Heads
- Screen Reviews
- April 16, 2018
An in-depth exploration of Japanese Ramen Noodle culture. Yum!

Attack Force Z
- Screen Reviews
- December 28, 2017
Aussie Special forces go behind enemy lines in WW2 Asia to recover the crew of a lost airplane including an important defector.
Oh, Yoko
- Music Reviews
- October 14, 2013
I Love You (Normal Cookie). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Gallhammer
- Music Reviews
- October 25, 2012
The End (Peaceville). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Screen Reviews
- May 29, 2012
Jiro’s well known sushi restaurant is in a Tokyo subway station, has ten seats, a bathroom off premises and three Michelin stars.
The Horrors
- Music Reviews
- December 27, 2011
Skying (XL). Review by Matthew Moyer.
jj
- Music Reviews
- May 12, 2010
jj no.3 (Secretly Canadian). Review by Matthew Moyer.
KK Null
- Music Reviews
- February 15, 2010
Oxygen Flash (Neurot Recordings). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Pastels/ Tenniscoats
- Music Reviews
- January 5, 2010
Two Sunsets (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Pastels/ Tenniscoats
- Music Reviews
- January 5, 2010
Two Sunsets (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Blacklist
- Interviews
- December 16, 2009
Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.
Lullatone
- Interviews
- October 1, 2009
Musical duos have become their own genre, much in the same way the Beatles helped define the bass, drums, guitars rock quartet. Matthew Moyer looks inside the husband/wife duo of Lullatone to explore the seriousness of toy instruments and just how much babies love Busta Rhymes.
Lullatone
- Music Reviews
- August 20, 2009
We Will Rock You… To Sleep (Audio Dregs). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Cheap Trick
- Music Reviews
- February 3, 2009
Live At Budokan (Epic/Legacy). Review by Scott Adams.

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