Mixtape 146 :: Gear Summer
It’s hard to to live up to a name like Young Fresh Fellows when you’ve been at it for almost 40 years, but good time rock and roll never goes out of style.
It’s hard to to live up to a name like Young Fresh Fellows when you’ve been at it for almost 40 years, but good time rock and roll never goes out of style.
Material Flats (Fine Alpinist Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
After a stubborn illness sidelined the band just as they were about to explode, Screaming Females are back with a killer album and looooong world wide tour. Jen Cray caught their Orlando date.
The Both (Superego Records). Review by Scott Adams.
Book collecting 10 years of reviews, interviews, and columns from Scene Point Blank.
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists wet an Orlando stage with the sweat of their high energy performance, but opening band Screaming Females were just as impressive for Jen Cray.
Speak Up (Matinee). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Phase Three (145). Review by Troy Jewell.
The Riverdales,Phase Three,145 Records,Troy Jewell
Today’s episode: “Indie Geek admits to being an Emo Loser.” Narration by Rob Walsh.
Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead (Lookout!). Review by Stein Haukland.
Always a master of doing-it-later, Ian Koss highlights his procrastination prowess with this roundup of records that didn’t quite get reviewed in their proper time frame.
Rx/Pharmacists (Gern Blandsten). Review by Jason Rockhill
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.