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Let’s Do the Panic Again: Phantom Planet Returns

July 3, 2019 By Nicholas Slayton Leave a Comment

It’s been seven years since Phantom Planet played a “proper show” in Los Angeles. But at the Lodge Room on Friday, May 10 (after a last-minute shift from Downtown’s Resident), it seemed like the band and Angelenos hadn’t missed a beat. The show, the second of a trio of Southern California reunion shows, drew a […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Alex Greenwald, Lodge Room, Los Angeles, Phantom Planet, Ryan XX

Learning to Appreciate Life in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die

July 1, 2019 By Nicholas Slayton Leave a Comment

Dead Don't Die Chloe Sevigny Adam Driver Bill Murray

The Dead Don’t Die is certainly a Jim Jarmusch film. In his career, he’s brought his own idiosyncratic approach to quiet dramas, mafia films and Westerns. It never quite approaches parody or deconstruction; Jarmusch is interested in and a fan of the tropes of genres, and he sees how they can be used to examine […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch, RZA, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton

10 Underrated Albums from 2018

January 2, 2019 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Underrated Albums 2018

2018 was stuffed with phenomenal work and now Chris Jones is here to add even more to your plate with a rundown of 10 overlooked gems from the year. Big Ups Two Parts Together Like far too many other bands, Big Ups split apart right as they seemed to be hitting their stride. While they still […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Amber London, Bad Gyal, Big Ups, Bruce Brubaker, Esperanza Spalding, Hooded Menace, Laurel Halo, Vessel, Westside Gunn, Zoe Keating

A Million and One Places to Go: Revisiting the Art of the Hustle in Susan Siedelman’s Smithereens

August 23, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Smithereens Susan Berman

Do you have a picture in your head of New York? Does it come from real life? Or the memory of art? I know the New York I see when I close my eyes. It is rooted in history but still basically myth, culled from photographic histories of the births of punk and hip hop, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Brad Rinn, Criterion, Film, New York, Richard Hell, Smithereens, Susan Berman, Susan Seidelman

Happy Rhodes’ Ectotrophia is a Gumbo of Moody 80s Musical Staples

July 2, 2018 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Happy Rhodes

While nothing groundbreaking, Happy Rhodes’ Ectotrophia remains a worthy dive into an engrossingly somber state of mind

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Happy Rhodes, Kate Bush, Numero Group

On Brandon Graham, Weaponized Loyalty and Recognizing Abuse Tactics

May 29, 2018 By Nick Hanover 5 Comments

There’s a thing that happens when time runs out for abusers. The loyalty they’ve managed to get from the people around them, the people who have been manipulated into only seeing the good, disintegrates and the protective shield it offered not only becomes useless but far more powerful of a weapon than even the initial […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Brandon Graham, Carta Monir, comics, Natalie Reed, Sarah Horrocks

Butt Muscles and Baby Squirts: On Christeene and Cultural Sensitivity

May 25, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

As a long time fan of her material, I got a thrill out of seeing a profile on Christeene, a self-described “human pissoir of raw unabashed sexuality,” in the Austin Chronicle this week. There’s no real comparison for Christeene or what she does but a rough description might go something like “if John Waters and […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Austin Chronicle, Big Boys, Butthole Surfers, Christeene, Kevin Curtin, punk, queer art, The Dicks

Yellowed Pages: Foolkiller

May 15, 2018 By Nick Hanover 4 Comments

Today in Yellowed Pages we explore the bizarre, shocking Foolkiller, a 1990 Marvel maxi-series by Steve Gerber and J.J. Birch that is either a searing condemnation of white male rage or an over-the-top anti-PC fantasy, depending on how you look at it. Mainstream comics in the early ’90s were a mess, no matter how you look […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Foolkiller, Gregory Wright, JJ Birch, Marvel Comics, Steve Gerber, yellowed pages

Moodie Black’s Lucas Acid is an Unflinching and Powerful Album of Trans Anthems

April 25, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Moodie Black Lucas Acid

Late into Moodie Black’s new album Lucas Acid, MB mastermind K Death growls “I ain’t really screaming/There’s no pain” and there’s a good chance you’ll think this is a lie based on what you hear around it. After all, Moodie Black are pioneers of noise rap, a subgenre defined by unholy howls, a scene with cacophony in […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Electronic, Fake Four, hip-hop, Indie, K Death, Moodie Black, noise rap, punk, Sean Lindahl

Friendship is Key to Survival in Katherine Lang’s Soul to Call

April 18, 2018 By Ben Howard 1 Comment

Rarely in discussions of apocalyptic fiction is friendship brought up. My personal observation is that the genre focuses on whatever topic is relevant in the current political discourse (i.e., Planet of the Apes). Whenever human interaction is brought up, it’s usually the worst ways possible. Many apocalyptic storytellers seem to think humanity’s negative qualities will […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, horror, indie comics, Katherine Lang, Soul to Call, webcomics

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