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North Face
North Face Dir: Phillipp Stözl Rating: 3.5/5.0 Music Box Films 126 Minutes North Face, Phillipp Stözl’s film about a 1936 attempt to scale Switzerland’s deadly Eiger peak is the most effective climbing thriller since
Read More »Interview: Franz Nicolay
Multi-instrumentalist (and sometime Spectrum Culture contributor) Franz Nicolay left the Hold Steady last week. While Nicolay’s interests outside the popular rock band include solo touring, writing stories and collaborating with other bands, many fans
Read More »Midlake: The Courage of Others
Midlake The Courage of Others Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Bella Union Midlake’s The Trials of Van Occupanther was a pastoral album whose acoustic-minded songs of bandits, log cabins deep in the woods and travelers far
Read More »Various Artists: Casual Victim Pile
Various Artists Casual Victim Pile Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Matador Records As a teenager growing up during the initial cultural explosion and resulting paradigm shift of Nirvana, any record associated with Seattle was automatically worth
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