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The winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2021 Viennale, The Tale of King Crab has documentarians Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis creating their first hybrid-fiction feature, which expands on the provocative mythologies birthed in the town of Vejano, Italy. Generoso and Lily review this immersive and imaginative film.
Black Sabbath (Idelsohn Society For Musical Preservation). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Logan (Cedar Fever Records). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
Mondo Dell’Orrore (Crucial Blast). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Scott Adams travelled all the way to Chicago to scope out the veteran indie label’s birthday. And with Big Black , Scratch Acid and the Didjits , amongst other label mainstays, reforming just for the event, there was no way he would leave disappointed.
Find the Sun (Sick Room). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Freeze! (Coalition Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
We Are All Sluts of Trust (Chemikal Underground). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Australasia (Hydrahead). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
The Spirituality (Threespheres). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
Daniel Mitchell enjoys the occasional musico-archaelogical jaunt through the wonderful world of Ohio record shop dollar bins; what follows are his top 19 finds of 2003.
Split 7” (What Else?). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Death Metal is For (Bifocal Media). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
At Crystal Palace (Troubleman). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Pretest (Relapse Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Flattening Mountains and Creating Empires (Redwood Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Chicago noise veteran Todd Trainer has been pounding drums for the likes of Big Black, Riflesport and lately, Shellac. Daniel Mitchell discusses men’s hair products with the man.
Color Sympathy (Clearly). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Carl F. Gauze recaps this year’s celebration of America’s most famous songwriter, Irving Berlin.
Join us for a new edition of New Music Now, with our special musical guest, Sleepyhead. All three members of the band are school teachers, so you didn’t hear it from us, but there might be a pop quiz about their album New Alchemy after the show.
Emmanuelle director Just Jaeckin’s misunderstood screwball comedy The Last Romantic Lover gets a much deserved Blu-ray release. Phil Bailey reviews.
Emmanuelle director Just Jaeckin’s misunderstood screwball comedy The Last Romantic Lover gets a much deserved Blu-ray release. Phil Bailey reviews.
Back in 2018, Lily and Generoso selected Adirley Queirós’s Once There Was Brasilia as a top ten film. That feature’s cinematographer, Joana Pimenta, has now co-directed with Queirós one of the most expansive political films we’ve seen this year, Dry Ground Burning. Lily and Generoso interviewed Pimenta at AFI Fest earlier this month.
Melissa Plotsky and Kid Congo Powers talk about the music fan-turned legendary musician’s crazy and wondrous punk coming-of-age story, Some New Kind of Kick.
Black Horse Records issues a second definitively packaged volume of Joe Strummer’s musical career. Charles DJ Deppner reflects.
