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Git Out: Torn Hearts and the Horrors of the Music Business

November 18, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

In the pilot episode of Mike Judge’s sorely underrated music history series Tales from the Tour Bus, Judge explains he wanted to do the show because he found it funny that conservatives constantly bemoaned the violent, drug-fueled antics of gangster rappers when so many country legends were just as wild, if not worse. Any good student […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: country music, Film, horror, music business, nashville, torn hearts

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

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

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

Vs #1 is a Captivating but Muddled Exploration of War as Entertainment

February 9, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Vs Esad Ribic

Almost exactly two years ago, Image Comics teased Ivan Brandon and Esad Ribic’s “space gladiators” series Vs, whetting the appetites of sci-fi fans looking for some Heinleinian exploration of military evolution to offset the wave of post-apocalyptic and cyberpunk works that had taken over the genre. That wave is still rising, if anything it’s grown larger, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Aditya Bidikar, Esad Ribic, Image Comics, Ivan Brandon, Nic Klein, Tom Muller, Vs

Bingo Love has Laudable Aims but Its Storytelling Falters

February 2, 2018 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Queer people don’t usually get to see themselves live happily ever after in most media. We get the love stories that end in tragedy. This is largely because non-queer people are making most of the media that represents us–which means we’re not really represented in it at all. So it’s refreshing to see a book […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Bingo Love, comics, Image Comics, indie comics, Jenn St-onge, Joy San, Tee Franklin

Anarchist Cody Wilson Takes on the Government in The New Radical

December 1, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

The New Radical

It’s difficult to watch a documentary like The New Radical without bringing in your own biases. That’s likely the point, considering the title and the subject matter. It’s supposed to feel alienating and disarming, to make you consider viewpoints that aren’t your own, and certainly to make you a little bit angry and defensive. And […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Adam Bhala Lough, Amir Taaki, Cody Wilson, documentary, Film, The New Radical

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