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In the news today: Renee Rapp, Spider-Man, Is For Lovers Festival, George Winston, Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters, Mantra of the Cosmos, Happy Mondays, Oasis, Ride, supergroup, Jason Isbell, The 400 Unit, Alice Phoebe Lou, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Miyazaki, Wilco, Allison Russell, Brian Eno, Queens of the Stone Age, Phantogram, Viagra Boys, tour news, Drug Church
In the news today: Marc Ribot, The Bad Plus, Buck Meek, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Lzzy Hale, Ashley McBryde, Jenny Lewis, Converge, Smoking Popes
In the news today: Liam Gallagher, Oasis, David Byrne, St. Vincent, Sparks, My Morning Jacket
Twix and Dive (La Tempesta). Review by Scott Adams.
Humanism (Monk’s Road Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Jacks(Edgeout Records) Review by Michelle Wilson.
Supporting their just-released sophomore record, UK synth-pop poster boys, Temples, attracted an SRO crowd to one of Orlando’s premier nightspots.
British rockers Kasabian storm the London O2 Arena in a triumphal concert.
The Davies and the Gallaghers have nothing on the original brother duo, The Louvin Brothers. Satan Is Real tells the story of Charlie and Ira, and it’s a corker!
Sweetheart Radio Revolution, Etc.. Review by Robert Sutton.
Stories, No Names. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Saving America. Review by Robert M. Sutton.
A Little Mess/The Dance EP (Hybris). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Envoy of Lucifer (Regain Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
At the Kooks’ Chicago tour stop, Chris Catania sees that there may indeed be something wrong with a lil’ (too much) bump n’ grind.
A large percentage of America may not know it yet, but the Arctic Monkeys have already conquered their native England and are setting their sights on our shores. Jen Cray was not surprised that the band’s Orlando date was a complete sell out.
Ode To Ochrasy (Mute). Review by Jen Cray.
Straight from a music school in Brighton to the top of the charts in England, The Kooks are the United Kingdom’s answer to The Strokes. Jen Cray spoke with their charming frontman Luke Pritchard about making it in the States.
Thanks For Not Asking. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Blood Sweat & Towers (TVT). Review by Jen Cray.
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.