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Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.
Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.
The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.
True Instigator (Domingo Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Down at the Well of Wishes (Longleaf Pine Records ). Review by James Mann.
The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1 (New West). Review by Sean Slone.
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends (Light in the Attic). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Jeff Bridges transforms Crazy Heart from a story everyone’s heard before into something that might be special enough to turn the heads of a select few.
Matthew Moyer finds himself in the same concert hall as Leonard Cohen , holy clown, dour prophet, borscht belt crooner, and true legend – in Tampa, Florida, no less.
Slower! Slower! Jen Cray is bowled over by the brutal trudge of an evening with Down , Weedeater and the mighty Melvins.
A Picture of Me - Nothing Ever Hurt Me (American Beat Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Bob Ham enjoys this archival DVD release of a George Jones concert from the early 80s - we think.
Penitentiary Blues (Shout! Factory). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Ghost Town (Deaf Jim). Review by Kyrby Raine.
This Weary Way (Full Light Records). Review by David Whited.
Legionnaires Disease (Monkey Barr Music). Review by Kyrby Raine.
Empire Builders (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.
The high-octane fumes swirling from the Rock Powerhouse that is Supagroup are enough to give anyone a dancing fit. Gail Worley investigates the volatiles emanating from this Alaska-via-Louisiana conflagration.
Deliverance (SpinART). Review by Troy Jewell.
Prohibition Starts Tomorrow (A.D.D.). Review by Stein Haukland.
Sour Suite (Birdman). Review by Phil Klima.
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.
Late bloomer Tony Bowman spins a tale of past decades with a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack.