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Revisit: Walkabout
Revisit: Walkabout Dir: Nicolas Roeg 1971 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. It begins in an urban nightmare. A snarling city where throngs of people
Read More »Perrier’s Bounty
Perrier’s Bounty Dir: Ian Fitzgibbon Rating: 2.5/5.0 IFC Films 88 Minutes Explain me this, filmmakers: why would you ever want to make a vanilla crime movie? Crime’s all about people doing bad things, so
Read More »Revisit: U2: The Unforgettable Fire
Revisit: U2 The Unforgettable Fire 1984 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. There are albums, and then there are those albums- the ones that become
Read More »Jamie Lidell: Compass
Jamie Lidell Compass Grade: 2.0/5.0 Label: Warp Records Sometimes when we think back through the decades long history British musicians have had with American soul records, as continentals, there’s the urge to blush or
Read More »Free Energy: Stuck On Nothing
Free Energy Stuck On Nothing Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: DFA When watching Free Energy’s network television debut on “The Late Show With David Letterman” a few months back, it was easy to imagine a nation
Read More »MacGruber
MacGruber Dir: Jorma Taccone Rating: 3.5/5.0 Universal Pictures 88 Minutes What can you tell me about “MacGyver?” I mean this, because I watched the show all the time as a kid. Its memory has
Read More »Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification: by David Waldstreicher
Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification by David Waldstreicher Rating: 4.0/5.0 Publisher: Hill and Wang David Waldstreicher’s Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification is that rare history book that offers an entirely new perspective
Read More »Concert Review: Quasi/Let’s Wrestle
Quasi is like the Kevin Bacon of the early ’00s indie music scene. Between Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, their combined session work credits include stints with such juggernauts as Sleater-Kinney, Heatmiser (and later
Read More »Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid Rating: 4.5/5.0 Label: Bad Boy Entertainment The opening moments of Janelle Monáe’s curiously named first LP, The ArchAndroid, are the sounds of hushed applause giving way to “Suite II Overture.”
Read More »The Sadies: Darker Circles
The Sadies Darker Circles Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Yep Roc The Sadies stand far off on the periphery of indie rock, like cacti mistaken for figures in desert twilight. Hard at work since 1998, the
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