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Wyau / Pyst (Hate). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
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 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.