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Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream
Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream Rating: 2.5 Label: Columbia Records Given his lengthy musical career and well-honed image as the voice of the working class everyman, Bruce Springsteen’s recent work will inevitably be
Read More »Cut Off Your Hands: You and I
Cut Off Your Hands You and I Rating: 2.0 Label: French Kiss buy it at insound! You and I has all the components to be an outstanding release: its songs are frenetic and punchy,
Read More »Rediscover: Undertow (2004)
Rediscover: Undertow (2004) Dir: David Gordon Green 108 Minutes Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Linearity is overrated. It
Read More »Cherry Blossoms
Cherry Blossoms Dir: Doris Dörrie Rating: 2.5 Strand Releasing 124 Minutes The ghosts of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu hang over Cherry Blossoms, a meditation on life and death by German director Doris Dörrie.
Read More »Interview: Sam Phillips
Quirky, L.A. based soothsayer and chanteuse Sam Phillips is the kind of artist described as a musician’s musician. Her fans are a sophisticated bunch that are mysteriously drawn to her reflective voice, literate and
Read More »Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light Rating: 5.0 Label: Secretly Canadian buy it at insound! There is a broken magic to being human, a discrete sadness that radiates from each of us that
Read More »Matt and Kim: Grand
Matt & Kim Grand Rating: 4.0 Label: Fader buy it at insound! Grand is an inventive sophomore album from Brooklyn’s Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino that expands on the drums/keyboards combination of their 2006
Read More »Shiku: Seattle, WA
Shiku 5310 Ballard Ave. NW Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 588-2151 My girlfriend waited patiently for an hour and a half inside Bop Street, Seattle’s legendary used record store, while I dug through crate after
Read More »Quiche With Pepper Bacon, Chevre and Red Pepper
Quiche With Pepper Bacon, Chevre and Red Pepper I recently attended a potluck dinner party and found myself in my usual predicament- my friends all know that I was a cook for most of
Read More »Ciao
Ciao Dir. Yen Tan Rating: 4.0 Regent Releasing 87 Minutes Once in a while in this busy, intense world of ours, we come across something that catches our attention, something that makes us slow
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