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Musick To Play In The Dark (Dais Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Musick To Play In The Dark (Dais Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Sanctuary: The Complete Discography (Sacred Bones). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Nina (Graveface). Review by Matthew Moyer
Matthew Moyer unveils the secrets of this month’s 45 Grave.
The Switchblade Kid (Miss Molly Music). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Merchandise makes Gainesville, and Matthew Moyer, swoon like teenagers at an early ’90s Morrissey concert… and that’s a very, very good thing.
Astral Planes Drifter (Rainbow Pyramid). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Drawing Down The Moon cs (Housecraft). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Split Cassette (Rainbow Pyramid). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Fish Drive Edsels. Review by Matthew Moyer.
Tinsel and Lights (Merge Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The question on Matthew Moyer’s mind, when checking out the trimmed-down version of Cult of Youth, was this: will they still be able to pull off the rich hues and near-psychedelic textures of this album? The answer: a resounding YES!
45 Grave is a monthly column dedicated to a physical music medium that is way too fun to go quietly into digital limbo, no matter how long its author suffers from a turkey coma.
The Best of Chet Baker (Riverside). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Horror (Sacred Bones). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Flutes, leather vests on bare skin, werewolf songs, and kids on stage. It’s not your average recipe for a rock show, but then, as Matthew Moyer points out, Faun Fables is not a rock band.
Rosenkopf (Wierd). Review by Matthew Moyer.
This week, Christopher Long nearly fights a famed rock star in defense of his 1970s pin-up princess. To prove his point, Chris goes into his own garage and digs out his musty vinyl copy of the self-titled 1972 alt. country classic from Linda Ronstadt.
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.