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Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (POTOMAK). Review by Steven Cruse.
Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (POTOMAK). Review by Steven Cruse.
Wyau / Pyst (Hate). 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.
Musick To Play In The Dark (Dais Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Iconic store, label, & genre-maker, Wax Trax!, celebrates with a new documentary & accompanying soundtrack!
Bang Messiah (Smog Veil). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Fetish Bones (Don Giovani). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Astral Planes Drifter (Rainbow Pyramid). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Hissing Veils (Dais ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
P-Orridge’s writing stands on its own.
Renihilation (20 Buck Spin). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Animal Collective put the hip-pie in hip-ster, so why was the Orlando audience so ornery? S D Green ponders the lack of love at the concluding date of the band’s recent tour with Black Dice.
Despite decades of punk being neutered by the media and the marketplace, Matthew Moyer is heartened to find that the artwork collected in this retrospective still has the power to outrage and inspire.
The Unified Pounding Theory (Innova Recordings). Review by James Mann.
WAT (Mute Records). Review by Matthew Damascus.
Plan B (Hymen). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Children of the Black Sun (Mute). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Strategies Against Architecture III (1991-2001) (Mute). Review by Kiran Aditham.
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.