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Mount Eerie: Wind’s Poem
Mount Eerie Wind’s Poem Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. As Mount Eerie in 2008, Phil Elverum had a busy year. The Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP dropped in May with decidedly
Read More »The Action: Complete Punk Recordings 1977-1978
The Action Complete Punk Recordings 1977-1978 Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Sudden Death Records The Action were an early Canadian punk rock band from the Ottawa, formed before the big, British punk explosion carried groups like
Read More »Concert Review: The Handsome Family/Daniel Knox
There’s a pathogen floating in our cultural DNA that we caught sometime around the Beatles’ performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” It grew into its current permutation when the Fab Four played their legendary
Read More »The Headless Woman
The Headless Woman Dir: Lucrecia Martel Rating: 4.5/5/0 Strand Releasing 87 Minutes After only three features, Lucrecia Martel has firmly established herself as one of the most prodigiously talented, critically adulated and most distinctive
Read More »BBQ Pork Shoulder
Barbecues are one of the great rituals of summer, but a long season of them can easily lead to a case of grilling fatigue. You can only eat so many burgers/hot dogs/sausages before the
Read More »I’m Gonna Explode
I’m Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar) Dir: Gerard Naranjo Rating: 1.5/5.0 IFC Films 106 Minutes Gerard Naranjo’s third feature film, I’m Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar), is basically Pierrot le fou transported to a
Read More »Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
Arctic Monkeys Humbug Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Domino/Warner Bros. Is it just me, or are the Arctic Monkeys the most problematic band despite their consistently good albums? Their boffo-selling Whatever Say I Am, That’s What
Read More »Throw Me the Statue: Creaturesque
Throw Me the Statue Creaturesque Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Secretly Canadian Hillside houses tower over a modest swimming pool, while palm leaves and other foliage cover almost every inch in sight. The sun begins to
Read More »PLAYLIST: The Beatles
On September 9th, the Beatles’ catalog will finally appear in remastered CD form. Even if this is a last ditch attempt to make money on the dying compact disc industry it cannot take away
Read More »Taking Woodstock
Taking Woodstock Dir: Ang Lee Rating: 2.0/5.0 Focus Features 110 Minutes Ang Lee’s career has always been curious, but Taking Woodstock is undoubtedly his most pointless film, with no clear audience or intent. From
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