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Superwolves (Drag City). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Superwolves (Drag City). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Scott Adams finds this compelling history of Merge Records, the underdog label that beat the odds and succeeded, to be insanely readable.
Eskimo Snow (anticon.). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Vs. Children (Tomlab). Review by Matthew Moyer.
CoLAB (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Frozen Orange (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
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Aw C’mon & No You C’mon (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Grown Backwards (Nonesuch). Review by Sean Slone.
Beet Maize & Corn (Drag City). Review by Sean Slone.
Parts Of The Process (Reprise/Sire). Review by Ben Varkentine.
I Want To Live A Peaceful Life (Film Guerrero). Review by Stein Haukland.
Fancy Blue (Terminus). Review by Stein Haukland.
White Night, Floating Anchor (Emperor Jones). Review by Stein Haukland.
The duet he did with his father, Bobby Bare, earned Bobby Jr. a Grammy nomination at the age of five. Stein Haukland catches up with the grown-up version.
Charango (Warner). Review by Bill Campbell.
Vol. 1 (Merge). Review by Stein Haukland.
All Over Creation (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.
Young Criminals’ Starvation League (Bloodshot). Review by James Mann.
A former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.
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.