As Gods Are Skinned et al…. Review by Steven Garnett.
Frozen Flowers Curse the Day (Trace Elements Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The humble tape cassette stages a comeback, and the guy who invented it is still alive.
Parallelogram (Three Lobed Recordings). Review by James Mann.
Demolished Thoughts (Matador). Review by Chet Barker.
Brendan Toller’s documentary mixes interviews and animation to explain the death of the independent record store. Scott Adams comments on the eulogy.
Take a trip back to Seattle’s musical heydey with Michael Lavine, who brings us all manner of visual treasure with Grunge.
Shelton Hull refers to the feminist vision of the inimitable Lydia Lunch as “seminal” and lives to tell the tale.
I’m Not There: Original Soundtrack (Sony Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Multimedia provocateur and no-wave icon Lydia Lunch’s tell-all will jar even the jaded. Tom “Tearaway” Schulte already feels dirty.
Immolation/Immersion (Strange Attractors). Review by Bob Ham.
Distressed (Temporary Residence). Review by Aaron Shaul.
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Sonic Nurse (Geffen). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Universary (Analysand). Review by Connor Vermouth.
3 Pieces for Violin (King Crab). Review by Stein Haukland.
One of the most highly regarded works to screen at this year’s Locarno Film Festival was Quý Minh Trương’s The Tree House (Nhà cây), a documentary that dramatically utilizes a science fiction lens to simultaneously examine the cultures of multiple ethnic groups in Vietnam while compelling the audience to question the contemporary importance of visual documentation.
Continuous Pleasures (Arevarc Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Sleeping your way to the top is one thing, but killing your way up there works a just as well.
A writer hits a dry spell and then murders his wife, all in the name of making a hit.
Campers freak out when a murderer is on the loose and they have no cell phone reception.
They’re Coming For Me (Hi-Style / Free Dirt). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Under The Wheels: Live From The Coasts, Volume 1 (Silver Current Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Sugar Drops (Red House Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
A young girl finds love in the wrong place and ends up as a tree.