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Rediscover: Mirah: You Think It’s Like This, But Really It’s Like This
Rediscover: Mirah You Think It’s Like This, But Really It’s Like This 2000 Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look.
Read More »Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies Dir: Arne Glimcher Rating: 4.0/5.0 Arthouse Films 60 Minutes Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies has, if you can’t already tell from the title, a highly
Read More »(Don’t) Rediscover: The Outrage
(Don’t) Rediscover The Outrage Dir: Martin Ritt 1964 (Don’t) Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and don’t deserve a second look. Americans embrace few foreign
Read More »Born Ruffians: Say It
Born Ruffians Say It Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Warp Records Born Ruffians aren’t quite rough, nor, it seems, are they completely ready after all. In 2008, the Ontario trio emerged, with two solid EPs and
Read More »Japandroids: No Singles
Japandroids No Singles Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Polyvinyl Records The first chords of “Darkness on the Edge of Gastown” provide all the headway needed for what to expect on No Singles, a surprisingly cohesive compilation
Read More »Career Assessment: Cruel Intentions
Career Assessment is a weekly look back at the hot, young things of yore. A tribute to both those who survived and enjoyed a fruitful career and to the others that flamed out just
Read More »Micmacs
Micmacs Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Rating: 3.0/5.0 Sony Pictures Classics 104 Minutes I may be the only person I know that hates Amelie, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s most popular film. Yes, there may be some innovative
Read More »Concert Review: Camera Obscura/Princeton
Politeness may not be a highly prized quality in indie music, but Glasgow’s Camera Obscura have to be one of the most amiable bands out there. Still touring behind last year’s vibrantly bittersweet My
Read More »Josh Ritter: So Runs the World Away
Josh Ritter So Runs the World Away Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Pytheas Josh Ritter has taken it upon himself to be the songwriting conduit of all things Americana. He touched on it with tales of
Read More »Sage Francis: Li(f)e
Sage Francis Li(f)e Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Anti- While churning out timely mixtapes in his “Sick of” series and recording three additional studio albums over the last 10 years, Sage Francis kept his musical focus
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