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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Sister Sledge: We Are Family

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Cowboy Junkies: ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Earth, Wind & Fire: All ‘n All

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Henry “Buzz” Glass: Square Dance Variations Volume I

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    Concert Review: Tool

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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    Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review

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    Buzzcocks: Late for the Train – Live & in Session 1989-2016

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    Mexican Institute of Sound: Distrito Federal

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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    Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

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    Resequence: Childish Gambino: 3.15.20

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    Resequence: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Rediscover: Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star

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    Revisit: Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances

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    Revisit: Amy Grant: Heart in Motion

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    Night of the Kings

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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    The Swordsman

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    Nomadland

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    Holy Hell! The Wedding Planner Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Monsters Inc. Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: A History of Violence

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    The Hearing Trumpet: by Leonora Carrington

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Home Tag Archives: holy hell

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Holy Hell! Heat Turns 20

By Jake Cole
February 4, 2015
in :  Features, Film, Holy Hell

For two decades, Heat has stood as the high-water mark of action epics, aped by numerous filmmakers. (Just try and imagine Christopher Nolan’s career without it.) But as much as the film gets credit for its massive scale and its impressive balance of its ensemble cast, the X factor that makes it such an enduring work is Michael Mann’s gift …

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Holy Hell! Interview with the Vampire Turns 20

By Nathan Kamal
November 12, 2014
in :  Features, Film, Holy Hell

It is easy to blame novelist Anne Rice for having paved the road for weirdly moralistic, mopey vampires (and also inadvertently causing Fifty Shades of Grey) to exist in our culture. Her 1977 novel, Interview with the Vampire, is Patient Zero for the cultural sea change that has morphed vampires from figures of fear into objects of adoration. To be …

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Holy Hell! Speed Turns 20

By Pat Padua
October 29, 2014
in :  Features, Holy Hell

On June 17, 1994, television news cameras were fixated on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. Live broadcasts that evening showed the LAPD chasing a white Ford Bronco. The image of O.J. Simpson on the slow lam was a prescient foreshadowing of today’s round the clock news cycle. It happened on a Friday night, when summer entertainment typically meant a …

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Holy Hell! Chungking Express Turns 20

By Rose Kerr
October 15, 2014
in :  Features, Film, Holy Hell
Chungking Express

My older brother deserves all the credit for introducing me to Asian cinema. Sure, I had seen some random kung fu movies, but I had never been exposed to contemporary Asian cinema before. And it all started with Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express. The video store (yes, this was back when those existed) had a copy, and he decided to rent …

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Holy Hell! American Recordings Turns 20

By Eric Dennis
June 18, 2014
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

American Recordings seemingly came out of nowhere in 1994. It didn’t, of course, but it felt that way, partly because Johnny Cash’s well-honed image as the Man in Black hadn’t changed in the public’s eye since around 1968. More so it was because his output in the 1980s/early 1990s had also been largely inessential, to put it mildly, consisting mostly …

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Holy Hell! The Downward Spiral Turns 20

By Derek Staples
June 11, 2014
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Now 20 years and just over three months removed from the original release of The Downward Spiral it is questionable who has held up better: the industrial rock masterpiece or the man behind the electronic chaos. Although Trent Reznor might never have envisioned making it out of the 1990s, there was a passion for this record to last far longer …

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Holy Hell! Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Turns 20

By Pat Padua
March 20, 2014
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Pavement was one of those bands whose influences were totally audible, but who blasted out a sonic path in a voice that was all their own. The Fall was the obvious reference for the early records, and you can hear them go through Wire and the Byrds and even turn into Stereolab for about 30 seconds on the great Wowee …

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Holy Hell! Grace Turns 20

By Cedric Justice
February 26, 2014
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

In the summer of 1994, Forrest Gump, Speed and the Lion King were topping the box office. OJ Simpson was arrested for suspicion of murder. Nelson Mandela went from being a prisoner to president, marking the end of apartheid. Green Day sparked a so-called “punk rock” revolution, which paved the way for pop-punk success years later. And the second Woodstock …

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Holy Hell! MTV Unplugged in New York Turns 20

By Josh Goller
February 5, 2014
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

A look back at Nirvana's MTV Unplugged

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Holy Hell! Undertow Turns 20

By Darryl G. Wright
August 28, 2013
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

In 1993, metal and hardcore bands endured the wandering eyes of the fans. There were notably few metal-oriented heavy music releases that year. Grunge was breaking, and the adolescent masses were increasingly being captivated by the loose, do-it-yourself ethos found in the hybrid punk and garage rock. Experiments proliferated from the rapidly growing popularity of Rage Against the Machine’s activist …

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