The Electric Chair
Live execution! Live on stage! Mark Eisenstein’s The Electric Chair tells the story of a shoe salesman attempting to revive his failed career as a comedian, sharing the stage with an electric chair.
Live execution! Live on stage! Mark Eisenstein’s The Electric Chair tells the story of a shoe salesman attempting to revive his failed career as a comedian, sharing the stage with an electric chair.
IIOI/KOJI (No Sleep). Review by P. McEver.
He looks like Jesus Christ. And preaches like St. Francis of Assisi. Some say he’s “a kook.”
Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave talks about her life right as she was exploding, in the good ways and the bad, in her memoir Rat Girl.
Mechanical Bride (Stem and Leaf). Review by P. McEver.
Cruise Van Nuys EP (Flannelgraph). Review by P. McEver.
Yeth Yeth Yeth (Monotreme). Review by P. McEver.
(Record Makers). Review by P. McEver.
Some of Us are in This Together (Riot Act Media). Review by P. McEver.
Natural Selection (Sidecho). Review by P. McEver.
Anam Cara (Hello, Sir! Records). Review by P. McEver.
Doom Pop (Sidecho). Review by P. McEver.
We Can Build an Island (SideCho). Review by P. McEver.
Let Go EP (SideCho). Review by P. McEver.
Everything is illuminated in Nina Davenport’s inside peek at the nutty world of Hollywood filmmaking.
Oaks (Holocene Music). Review by P. McEver.
Oh, The Places We’ll Go (K Records). Review by P. McEver.
Our Call Outs (Ephemeroptera/Plan-It-X). Review by P. McEver.
Verbs (Aagoo). Review by P. McEver.
Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope (SideCho). Review by P. McEver.
A.J. Croce celebrates the 50th anniversary of his father, Jim Croce’s, three ground breaking albums, with a nationwide tour of Croce Plays Croce.
High Above Harlesden 1978 - 2023 from On-U Sound collects 60 dub and reggae tracks from Creation Rebel, an astounding set of musicians.
Gerta O. Egy’s beautifully drawn fungi almost eclipse their fairyland habitats in her Mushroom Daydream Coloring Book.
One of the last of the classic wuxia swordplay films stands as a fitting coda to the grand period of the genre. Phil Bailey reviews a new Blu-ray release of the 1975 film The Valiant Ones.
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Smash Mouth takes us back to The Brady Bunch circa 1973, with “Sunshine Day,” featuring Barry Williams, the original Greg Brady.
Not everyone can be excited by blocks spinning on a screen, but if you are, Ian Koss recommends you pay attention to Best of Five.
The final two films in the bonkers Hong Kong action comedy series The Inspector Wears Skirts hit Blu-ray from 88 Films.
A pair of early “girls with guns” action films from superstars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock have arrived from 88 Films.