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This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by a change encounter with Julius C. Lacking … maybe it was the tags, or perhaps the artwork, but the results are clear.
This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by a change encounter with Julius C. Lacking … maybe it was the tags, or perhaps the artwork, but the results are clear.
The 3 Way (Sundazed). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
If you got The Nude Party to perform at your next get-together, it would be the kind of shindig that produces two marriages, three break-ups, and gossip for years to come.
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle/ Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (Chunklet Industries). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine (Little Monster Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Dressy Bessy (Kindercore). Review by Matt Cibula.
Little Music (Kindercore). Review by Julio Diaz.
Private Lines EP (Jagjaguwar). Review by Stein Haukland.
Velocity Of Sound (spinART). Review by Ian Koss.
If That’s What You Want (Fall Of Rome). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Play With Your Head (RPM / Sony). Review by Julio Diaz.
Matt Cibula talks with The Bill Doss, co-founder of Olivia Tremor Control, as he discusses his new group, The Sunshine Fix, and their upcoming album Age of the Sun – not to mention Buddy Ebsen.
The Soundtrack to the Film… (spinART). Review by Jason Plender.
Her Wallpaper Reverie (Elephant 6/Spin Art). Review by Anton Wagner
Tone Soul Evolution [Reissue] (Elephant 6/SpinART/Sire). Review by Kurt Channing
This fall, Ani DiFranco brought new Righteous Babe labelmate Kristen Ford to Iowa City, where Jeremy Glazier enjoyed an incredible evening of artistry.
This week Christopher Long grabs a bag of bargain vinyl from a flea market in Mount Dora, Florida — including You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, the classic 1979 LP from Ian Hunter.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.