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Rick Rubin and Steve Albini Had Nothing To Do With This Record (Bad Bad Bad). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Rick Rubin and Steve Albini Had Nothing To Do With This Record (Bad Bad Bad). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Trampoline (Drive Thru). Review by Jen Cray.
Small Steps, Heavy Hooves (Equal Vision). Review by Jen Cray.
Brooklyn, NY threesome Rainer Maria have spent the better part of the last year taking their sweet sounds all across the country. At their Orlando stop, they invited Jen Cray backstage for a chat.
The ambitious sounds of The Format are Pet Sounds-era The Beach Boys for the Fall Out Boy audience. Unorthodox instrumentation, perfectly crafted melodies, and beautiful vocals that have the slightest hint of modern day emo whine, but not enough to make Jen Cray cringe.
Everything is alright when Motion City Soundtrack takes the stage. Except Brittany Sturges can’t get that tune out of her head.
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.