The Jesus Lizard: Club
Matthew Moyer declares this the best approximation of the Jesus Lizard live experience.
Matthew Moyer declares this the best approximation of the Jesus Lizard live experience.
Autumn of the Seraphs (Touch and Go). Review by Jen Cray.
The Spell (Touch & Go). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Always Never Again (Touch & Go). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Cinder (Touch & Go). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Summer in Abaddon (Touch & Go). Review by Aaron Shaul.
One Of These Days (Landsleit Records). Review by Ben Varkentine.
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch and Go). Review by Melody Caraballo.
The Sword of God (Touch And Go). Review by Ian Koss.
The name Vibrolush sounds like some nifty new household appliance that double…
Alternately called spooky and melancholy, the Black Heart Procession really like to have fun just as much as the next guys, even if that doesn’t always come across in their music. Marcel Feldmar spoke with Tobias and Pall, and found out they aren’t ready for the grave yet, after all.
Harvey liked working in the steel mills. At first, it had seemed like an unbe…
Who would have thought that Man or Astroman? was in it for the long haul? Or …
Just about everything Shellac does shouldn’t work. Steve Albini’s guitar soun…
Everyone’s favorite indie rock band still going strong (well, not everyone’s,…
The muscles in my back hurt, but I want to write about Storm & Stress. Music …
Under Thunder and Fluorescent Light (Touch And Go). Review by Andrew Chadwick
000 (Touch and Go). Review by Kurt Channing
Bang (Touch and Go). Review by Ian Koss
Concert addict Jeremy Glazier talked with A.J. Croce near the beginning of his year-long Croce Plays Croce tour about embracing his father’s music and his own while honoring both their familial bond and shared influences.
For Lily and Generoso, 2023 was a fantastic year at the cinema! They select and review their ten favorite films, six supplemental features, and one extraordinary repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals.
The hidden gem of the French New Wave, Le Combat Dans L’île gets a lovely Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
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.