“We are simply gonna change music forever, and the way…
Music Reviews
Tangerine Dream: In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979
Among the first to see the emotional possibilities of electronic…
Mark Barrott: Sketches from a Distant Ocean
Disappointing not due to false advertising but because the sense…
Film Reviews
Sword of Trust
Enjoyable and imminently forgettable
The Art of Self-Defense
Too obvious, too overt, too derivative and too on-the-nose.
Music Features
Holy Hell! The Fragile Turns 20
A nearly two-hour tome that dove into themes of isolation, deterioration and things falling apart.
Revisit: Bob Marley & The Wailers: Legend
There is a reason for this compilation’s seemingly infinite success.
Film Features
Revisit: Legally Blonde
Elle Woods’s world may be an idealistic one, but that’s no reason we can’t live in it.
Oeuvre: Varda: The Creatures
An airy, intellectual take on science fiction, particularly given its ruminations on how even well-intentioned men silence women.
Books
I Will Be Complete: by Glen David Gold
Joining Gold on this journey is at times breathtaking, at times painstaking, and finally, whole.
33 1/3: Transformer: By Ezra Furman
More than a mere essay on Lou Reed, this is a consideration of how the notion of queerness has evolved over time.
Lists
The Best Films of 2019 (So Far)
We hope this list inspires you to choose something else at the multiplex.
Best Albums of 2019 (So Far)
We are pleased to present a list of albums that we feel have bubbled to the top of the heap.