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These 13 (Thirty Tigers). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
These 13 (Thirty Tigers). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by the quantuum improbability of having landed on Julius C. Lacking’s desk at precisely the right time.
Weird music from the south
I am generally skeptical and disrespectful of band names with special capitalization, but IDLES look and sound like they mean business.
No need to worry about offending delicate sensibilities with this playlist. We’re not talking about profanity, so just take the title at face value.
I Got Your Medicine. Review by James Mann.
Dark Night of the Soul (Fat Possum). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Blue Light (Big Legal Mess Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Sincerely, Severely (Orange Records). Review by Jeff Schweers.
You Can’t Go Back to the Garden of Eden. Review by Tim Wardyn.
Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (Sensory / Lasers Edge). Review by Carl F Gauze.
How Big Can You Get? A Tribute to Cab Calloway (Vanguard Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Susquehanna (Space Age Bachelor Pad Records/In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
The Bastress (Tellous). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Nothing Personal (Warning Voice Music). Review by Kyrby Raine.
Weather Systems (Grimsey Records). Review by James Mann.
My Favorite Record (Spanks-a-Lot / Bloodshot). Review by Ian Koss.
Present a Christmas Spanking (Bloodshot). Review by James Mann.
The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc). Review by James Mann.
A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot). Review by Sean Slone.
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.