The Alternate Routes
The Brooklawn Session (Self Released). Review by Andrew Ellis.
The Brooklawn Session (Self Released). Review by Andrew Ellis.
The Sweet Songs of Decay (Sincere Recordings/In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Forgone Conclusion… (Broken Halo Records/In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
The Reckoning (Terra Soul Music/ In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
For their second trip to Orlando in just three months time, Portugal the Man took a backseat in billing (to Rock Votolato), and quietly appeared as an opener at the same venue that they had previously sold out on their own. Jen Cray was back for a second helping of these Alaska boys.
Glitter in the Gutter (Adeline). Review by Jen Cray.
Repair (In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Ambassador (Six Shooter). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Please Come Home (Equal Vision). Review by Jen Cray.
Feel the Pull (Self-Released). Review by Aaron Shaul.
A Perfect Day for a Funeral (In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Why do you need a fancy-pants rock critic to review a record, anyway? Especially when J. Noise knows firsthand the effects of this record on the regulars at Pete’s Saloon.
Exile (429 Records). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Hesitation Eyes (Heatstroke). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Where Have You Been (Collectable Escalators). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Drag It Up (New West). Review by Jen Cray.
Room Service (Polydor/Universal). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Bastards of the Beat (Red Ink). Review by Sean Slone.
Johnathan Rice,Trouble Is Real,Reprise,Sean Slone,Extended Player 24:26
Travels in the South (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.
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.