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Revisit: Johnny Cash: Sings the Ballads of the True West
Revisit: Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West 1965 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. In 2010, we know the album title is
Read More »Rediscover: Weirdsville
Rediscover: Weirdsville Dir: Allan Moyle 2007 Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Imagine, if you will, the collision of
Read More »Enter the Void
Enter the Void Dir: Gaspar Noé Rating: 4.4/5.0 IFC Films 137 Minutes The only thing I knew about Enter the Void, the new movie from writer/director Gaspar Noé before seeing it was that it
Read More »How to Dress Well: Love Remains
How to Dress Well Love Remains Rating: 4.2/5.0 Label: Lefse Records When it comes to male singers with high, piercing voices, the word “haunting” gets used a lot- just look at Jónsi from Sigur
Read More »Mice Parade: What It Means To Be Left-Handed
Mice Parade What It Means To Be Left-Handed Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Fat Cat Records It was only a matter of time before it came to this: a full-fledged Mice Parade pop album. What was
Read More »Elf Power: Elf Power
Elf Power Elf Power Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Orange Twin Like so many other bands from the Elephant 6 collective or from the perpetually blooming Athens scene, Elf Power has spent the bulk of its
Read More »Howl
Howl Dir: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Rating: 3.3/5.0 Oscilloscope 90 Minutes The Beats have become such a touchstone of American culture – glorified by teenagers, remembered fondly by adults – that it’s a
Read More »This is Where I Leave You: by Jonathan Tropper
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Rating: 3.0/5.0 Plume In the film There’s Something About Mary, Ben Stiller’s character suffers a series of humiliations that no human could cumulatively experience in
Read More »Les Savy Fav: Root for Ruin
Les Savy Fav Root for Ruin Rating: 3.8/5.0 Label: French Kiss For some acts, the plummeting value of the album in the digital age isn’t necessarily such a bad thing. If anyone’s poised to
Read More »The Black Angels: Phosphene Dream
The Black Angels Phosphene Dream Rating: 3.8/5.0 Label: Blue Horizon On paper, the Black Angels should have been laughed out of town when they’d released their debut, Passover in 2006. While your girlfriend was
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