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Concert Review: Matt and Kim / Amanda Blank / The Intelligence
If you watched TV this summer, chances are you’ve heard Matt and Kim. The bubbly opening verse of “Daylight” underscored a ubiquitous Bacardi commercial, and the gloating chorus of “Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare” backed
Read More »Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: ATP Recordings The second half of Fuck Buttons’ acclaimed debut single, “Bright Tomorrow,” was a mess; it was a barely listenable melange of droning distortion and garbled
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J. Tillman: Year in the Kingdom
J. Tillman Year in the Kingdom Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Bella Union Along the dusty roads of Americana, there are places where genres bleed together- where country, folk and rock blur. While Fleet Foxes, of
Read More »The House of the Devil
The House of the Devil Dir: Ti West Rating: 2.0/5.0 Magnet Releasing 93 Minutes Oh, you silly Satanists, it’s as if you have a one-track mind. I mean seriously, what movie about Satanic cults
Read More »The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912: by Mike Vaccaro
The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912 by Mike Vaccaro Rating: 3.5/5.0 Publisher: Doubleday The World Series
Read More »List Inconsequential: Halloween ’09 Mix Tape: Release the Bats!
Halloween may be the most rock ‘n’ roll of all holidays (sorry Bastille Day). Despite its innocuous, even religious, origins, Halloween has come to represent all manner of evil, both supernatural and terrestrial, illicit
Read More »Memory Tapes: Seek Magic
Memory Tapes Seek Magic Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: Acephale Records Dayve Hawk may claim otherwise, but he’s certainly a man of mystery at the moment. Recording under the names Weird Tapes, Memory Cassette and now,
Read More »Le Loup: Family
Le Loup Family Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: Hardly Art The entire notion of a music “collective” may reek of ill-conceived indie-art pretentiousness, but the Washington D.C. group Le Loup tows the line perfectly between thoughtful,
Read More »Music on DVD: Otis Redding: The Best: See & Hear
Like Muhammad Ali and his beloved sweet science, Otis Redding was tapped as a leader meant to inherit a dying tradition, if only to keep it afloat for a little while longer. Soul and
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Antichrist
Antichrist Dir: Lars von Trier Rating: 4.5/5.0 IFC Films 109 Minutes In Stig Björkman’s Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier, Lars von Trier launches the documentary by proclaiming with a malicious grin, “I’ll
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