Surfer Blood
Surfer Blood stole the headlining spot right out from under tour mates The Pains of Being Pure at Heart for a semi-hometown Orlando gig, but Jen Cray doesn’t think that they earned it.
Surfer Blood stole the headlining spot right out from under tour mates The Pains of Being Pure at Heart for a semi-hometown Orlando gig, but Jen Cray doesn’t think that they earned it.
Even with only two original members remaining, New York Dolls still dazzle, as Jen Cray discovered at a recent Orlando show.
It’s a cross breed of new wave and metal fronted by a badass former Lunachick. Theo & the Skyscrapers make a Sunday night in Orlando an event for Jen Cray and the rest of the audience.
London’s Bloc Party capture the essence of a rainy summer day at Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival, winning over a skeptical Jen Cray in the process.
LouisXIV may be ripping off T. Rex and David Bowie, and they may only know how to write songs about one topic (sex!), yet they’re music is irressistibly catchy. Jen Cray is hooked.
Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.
Phil Bailey reviews Rampo Noir, a four part, surreal horror anthology film based on the works of Japan’s horror legend, Edogawa Rampo.
In this latest installment of his popular weekly series, Christopher Long finds himself dumpster diving at a groovy music joint in Oklahoma City, where he scores a bagful of treasure for UNDER $20 — including a well-cared-for $3 vinyl copy of Life for the Taking, the platinum-selling 1978 sophomore set from Eddie Money.
Ink 19’s Liz Weiss spends an intimate evening with Gregory Alan Isakov.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.