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Various Artists: Next Stop…Soweto Vol. 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-1976
Various Artists Next Stop…Soweto Vol. 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-1976 Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Strut To be a serious music fan in the 21st century means to essentially be without
Read More »Sasquatch 2010
Things I Learned At Sasquatch 2010 Before I begin the countdown, I want it to be known that was the first year I ever attended Sasquatch. I’ve never been to the Gorge Amphitheatre, but
Read More »Film Dunce: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
Read More »Survival of the Dead
Survival of the Dead Dir: George A. Romero Rating: 1.5/5.0 Magnolia Pictures 90 Minutes Survival of the Dead, George A. Romero’s sixth installment in his walking dead series is one of the worst films
Read More »Two In the Wave
Two In the Wave Dir: Emmanuel Laurent Rating: 2.0/5.0 Lorber Films 91 Minutes Basically amounting to a glorified DVD extra, Two In the Wave, Emmanuel Laurent’s tepid documentary about the cantankerous relationship between François
Read More »Concert Review: Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen? Touring?!?! And they’re playing at a community venue that’s literally five minutes down the street? Cross that one off the bucket list. I panicked for some moments about whether this
Read More »Damien Jurado: Saint Bartlett
Damien Jurado Saint Bartlett Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Secretly Canadian Up until he recorded 2008′s Caught in the Trees, Damien Jurado’s musical output was both frequent and consistent. However, though Jurado developed a healthy reputation
Read More »Holy Fuck: Latin
Holy Fuck Latin Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: XL Recordings Latin comes to us direct from its birth in a barn somewhere in backwoods Ontario, where electro-rock mad scientists Holy Fuck toiled away, in pastoral seclusion.
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