When considering the career of an artist as prolific as…
Music Reviews
Soul Asylum: While You Were Out/Clam Dip and Other Delights
Soul Asylum was never anybody’s little brother.
Dzjenghis Khan: Dzjenghis Khan
This enigmatic band knows the secret corridors and monstrous labyrinths…
Film Reviews
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
If anyone can sell this concept, it’s Sam Elliott, and he makes the movie watchable if not fully satisfying.
To Dust
The pathos of To Dust doesn’t rely specifically on death at all, but rather on the lives altered by its inevitability.
Music Features
Interview: Nils Frahm
“I’m not extremely positive in general, but I try not to be negative because life is tough enough.”
Holy Hell: Midnite Vultures Turns 20
The parts of Midnite Vultures that hold up best today are the ones that feel more like organic extensions of Beck’s style and less like, well, culture vulture-ing.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Carpenter: The Fog
The Fog is an oft-overlooked gem of Carpenter's filmography.
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel just isn’t up to the task.
Books
All God’s Creatures: by Daniel Horan
Cautious scholars as well as any patient reader seeking a thoughtful consideration of what Thomas Berry calls “nature’s capacity to praise” will find in All God’s Creatures valuable…
Ways of Hearing: by Damon Krukowski
Krukowski has so much to offer, and Ways of Hearing delivers a sound bite, so to speak, in his larger composition.
Lists
The Ten Best Debut Albums of the 1960s
These are the best debut records of the 1960s.
Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2013!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a film.