Le Grand Magistry Showcase
Le Grand Magistry Showcase, featuring Toog, Baxendale, Stars, My Life Story, and Momus, at Fez, New York City, NY on October 21, 2000. Concert review by Jason Feifer.
Le Grand Magistry Showcase, featuring Toog, Baxendale, Stars, My Life Story, and Momus, at Fez, New York City, NY on October 21, 2000. Concert review by Jason Feifer.
Desoto Records Showcase, featuring the Dismemberment Plan, Burning Airlines, Black Beetle, and the Eternals at the NYU Thompson Center in New York City, NY on October 20, 2000. Concert review by Julio Diaz.
Spoozys at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, NY on October 19, 2000. Concert review by Julio Diaz.
Front 242, with Cassandra Complex, at Irving Center in New York City on September 28, 2000. Concert review by Kiran Aditham.
If you or your staff sees fit, this can be posted as the ramblings of a fucked-up son-of-a-bitch……if you correct the spelling errors, of course (it is time for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and her boyfriend’s new show, Angel……no way I’m gonna check for stupid-assed grammar and shit while that piece of work is on the air).
Spending so much time in such a relaxed, non-confrontational atmosphere has somewhat dulled my killer instincts. And now, of all places to relocate to, I pick New York City. That’s right, the Mecca of all Western Civilization, as an old friend once referred to it (that old friend now sells drugs in Washington Square Park, among other horribly communist and leftist occupations). There is speed in the water in NYC. This is not a lie.
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.