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Revisit: Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Ballads
Revisit: Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads 1940 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. In these depressingly shitty economic times, where executives pay themselves and their
Read More »Red Red Meat: Bunny Gets Paid (Deluxe Edition)
Red Red Meat Bunny Gets Paid (Deluxe Edition) Rating: 4.5 Label: Sub Pop buy it at insound! Red Red Meat’s 1995 album Bunny Gets Paid marks a midpoint between the twisted swamp blues of
Read More »Great Northern: Remind Me Where the Light Is
Great Northern Remind Me Where The Light Is Rating: 2.5 Label: Eenie Meenie Records
Read More »Sin Nombre
Sin Nombre Dir: Cary Joji Fukunaga Rating: 3.5 Focus Features 96 Minutes Sin Nombre is an ambitious hybrid: a Sundance-nurtured, socially conscious film in the form of studio genre entertainment. It combines chase, gangster
Read More »Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing
Peter Bjorn and John Living Thing Rating: 3.0 Label: Columbia Records buy it at insound! Perhaps 2006 was a very special year for me – one that found me going particularly soft. Peter Bjorn
Read More »Themselves: theFREEhoudini Mixtape
Themselves theFREEhoudini Mixtape Rating: 4.0 Label: Anticon Is there anyone working in music today that is as exciting and vital as Adam “Doseone” Drucker? Between his day job fronting the TV on the Radio-on-steroids
Read More »Interview: Michael Vidal of Abe Vigoda
Abe Vigoda are at the forefront of the increasingly more hyped L.A. scene centered at all-ages venue The Smell. Unlike many of their contemporaries, though, Abe Vigoda are a band determined to explore as
Read More »Revisit: Batman
Revisit: Batman Dir: Tim Burton 1989 There have been three distinctive cycles of modern Batman films: the Tim Burton ones, Joel Schumacher’s disastrous attempts and the Christopher Nolan’s recent films, 2005′s Batman Begins and
Read More »Severed Ways
Severed Ways Dir: Tony Stone Rating: 1.5 Magnolia Pictures 109 Minutes A sloppy exploration of very early American history, Severed Ways delves into a largely unexplored time period in an even less commonly imagined
Read More »Concert Review: Jessica Lea Mayfield
Mid-set, between songs, David Mayfield sidled up close to his sister, Jessica Lea, and spoke to the crowd at Seattle’s Chop Suey. “Just so you guys know,” he began, “this girl’s only a wee
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