Begone, foul year
Let’s leave 2020 in our rearview, shall we?
Let’s leave 2020 in our rearview, shall we?
Can You Deal? (Dead Oceans). Review by Jen Cray.
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop Music). Review by .
Rock & Roll Submarine (UO Records). Review by Sean Slone.
Two-Way Family Favourites (Southern Domestic Recordings). Review by Sean Slone.
Kimya Dawson mothers the Chicago kids with her folkish punk rock lullabies. Chris Catania digs.
Historical Fiction (Team Science). Review by Jen Cray.
The Shapes We Make (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Aaron Shaul.
The women are doing it for themselves! This issue of Target or Flag gives you the low down on four women making music in very different styles but displaying the same independent spirit.
To Force a Fate (Lookout!). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
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Greatest Hits Vol. II (Trampoline Records). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Nothing Comes Free (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.
Get On (Sonic Unyon). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
The Diamond Fields (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.
Long Shot Novena (Rough Trade). Review by Stein Haukland.
That’s What We’re Here For (This is the Chopper). Review by Matt Cibula.
musicforthemorningafter (Columbia). Review by Sean Slone.
Column by David Lee Beowülf
Mikko Niskanen’s recently restored 1972 mini-series Eight Deadly Shots is a complex look at the real-life murders of four police officers in the farming community of Sääksmäki, Finland, in March 1969. Lily and Generoso review the powerful fictionalized adaptation of this tragic incident.
Lily and Generoso review Smoking Causes Coughing, the newest creation from surrealist comic genius Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Mandibles) that follows the adventures and storytelling endeavors of the kaiju-fighting Tobacco Force!
Ink 19’s Roi J. Tamkin reviews Drumming With Dead Can Dance and Parallel Adventures, Peter Ulrich’s memoir of an artistic life fueled by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard’s remarkable friendship.
Tymisha Harris tells the story of Josephine Baker with the perfect mix of theater, history, and jazz in Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play.
Maggie McClure and Shane Henry are the singer-songwriter, husband-wife duo who join forces as The Imaginaries. Jeremy Glazier digs their creativity.
Ween announce first extensive tour since reuniting in 2016
In this installment, Christopher Long receives a massive love gift from his nail tech: a ravaged original vinyl pressing of the classic 1971 Alice Cooper LP, Killer, for free.