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 […]
Learning to Appreciate Life in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
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 […]
10 Underrated Albums from 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 […]
A Million and One Places to Go: Revisiting the Art of the Hustle in Susan Siedelman’s Smithereens
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, […]
Happy Rhodes’ Ectotrophia is a Gumbo of Moody 80s Musical Staples
While nothing groundbreaking, Happy Rhodes’ Ectotrophia remains a worthy dive into an engrossingly somber state of mind
Butt Muscles and Baby Squirts: On Christeene and Cultural Sensitivity
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 […]
Yellowed Pages: Foolkiller
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 […]
Moodie Black’s Lucas Acid is an Unflinching and Powerful Album of Trans Anthems
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 […]
Friendship is Key to Survival in Katherine Lang’s Soul to Call
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 […]
Here’s an Idea for a Funhouse: Pay the Damn Cartoonists
Do cartoonists deserve to be paid for their labor? It’s a yes or no question. And, frankly, it doesn’t seem to be a very hard question. But I’ll give you a minute. A week before my writing this, Brooklyn comic book store Desert Island and the SoHo based Drawing Center put on an event called […]
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