It’s probably a warning sign when a director’s strongest feature is a Step Up movie.
Author: Pat Padua
Rediscover: Constantin Veis Presents the Glamorous Lifesavers: Resurrected Elsewhere
An adorable jangle-pop statement.
Column & Friends: Pets II
Pets II adequately serves the disco part of the brain.
Bad Reputation
Bad Reputation is a fairly by-the-numbers music documentary, its flavor of energy with little insight…
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes: N°2/Âme Debout/Paix
A nearly essential set, but misguided rhythms are its unfortunate downfall.
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
The almost tragic profile of an amiable, colorful workaholic artist whose subject was, simply, a…
Revisit: Nighthawks
Nighthawks is a thoroughly entertaining product of what now seems a more innocent time.
Umeko Ando: Ihunke
Umeko Ando made Japanese folk music with a pop sensibility that honors its elders.
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music: by David Hollander
Unusual Sounds is a terrific coffee table book.
Haruomi Hosono: Philharmony (1982)/omni Sight Seeing (1989)/Paraiso (1978)
Light in the Attic’s reissues of Japanese pop music have been a revelation.