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In the news today: The Nearly Deads, The Northern Light, Eitan Noyze, Hornography, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, MXPX, From a Second Story Window, Jason Isbell, Fast Car, Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs, Best covers, Nick Cave, Tupac Shakur, Michael McDonald, DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man, Ben Lee, Georgia Man, The Replacements, Cyndi Lauper, Knife Bride, Yungblud, Lil Uzi Vert
Superwolves (Drag City). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Rock Bottom Rhapsody (New West Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
S/T (Silent X Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Livin’ On A High Note (Anti). Review by James Mann.
Scheherazade (Bloodshot Records). Review by James Mann.
Country Funk II: 1967-1974 (Light In The Attic Records). Review by James Mann.
Slave Vows (Agitated). Review by Jason O’Neal Griggs.
Let Me Come Home (4AD). Review by Jeff Schweers.
Acolytes David Bowie and Jarvis Cocker may have a vested interest in maintaining the Walker mythos, but No Regrets is under no such obligation.
Author, critic, and self-confessed “drooling fanatic” Steve Almond’s latest rock and roll offering has a little something for fans and “fanatics” everywhere. Christopher Long shares the adoration.
Nick Cave captures a side of east Sussex that you’ll never see on travel posters in this novel that Carl F Gauze likens to Death of a Salesman for the 21st Century.
Live in London (Sony). Review by Jessica Whittington.
From gothic siren to torch singer, Gitane Demone has been through it all. This new double-disc DVD collection chronicles the many phases and changes of her long and overlooked life and art.
The Bright Orange Years (Merge Records). Review by Scott Adams.
You Brought a Knife to a Gunfight (Tom Perkins Entertainment). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Two of Diamonds (Mute). Review by Bob Ham.
Approximate Hellhound (Metaphor Rhythms). Review by Sean Slone.
In the Pines (Domino). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Light From Sovereign States/Into the Night 7” (It’s a Trap!). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Cult classic cannibal shockers The Woman and its prequel, Offspring, let the gore flow on 4K UHD in a new set from Arrow Video.
A young royal must step up and run a kingdom, but he prefers to party with his buddies in this rare classic by Stephen Schwartz. Pippin plays at Winter Garden, Florida’s Garden Theatre through September 15, 2024.
Judy Craddock speaks with Jeffrey Foucault about his first album in six years, The Universal Fire, and connecting all kinds of dots in the wake of loss.
All In: Unreleased & Rarities — The New West Years (New West Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
Bring your loupe and spend some time poring over the maps that open Navola with Ian Koss.
