New Age and ambient music have terrible connotations: bland, musical Nyquil. Moholy-Nagy shed those perceptions on their debut album, Like Mirage. The Berlin/San Francisco trio, [...]
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MOHOLY-NAGY – Like Miragereviewed by Peter Cauvel
THE COCAINE CHRONICLES ed. by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalonreviewed by Chris Aitkens
Akashic Books, 250 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Blow. Powder. Snow. Nose candy. Rock. Whatever you may call it, cocaine is a hell of a drug. [...]
THE BRAINS – Drunk Not Deadreviewed by Matt Edmund
Take the fury of slap bass-driven psychobilly and mix it with the crooning vocal styles found in the swing revival sound, and you wlll get [...]
OFFICE OF FUTURE PLANS – S/Treviewed by Peter Cauvel
J. Robbins is a legend. After playing bass in the DC punk band Government Issue, he went on to front seminal post-hardcore groups like Jawbox [...]
CLASSICS OF LOVE – S/Treviewed by Christopher Connal
Classics of Love consist of the California band Hard Girls (with Mike Huguenor on guitar, Morgan Herrell on bass, and Max Feshbach on drums), fronted [...]
THE PLANET SMASHERS – Descent Into The Valley Of The Planet Smashersreviewed by Matt Edmund
It has been six years since Canada’s own The Planet Smashers released their last album, Unstoppable. With their newest effort, Descent into the Valley of [...]
THE SPEED CHRONICLES ed. by Joseph Mattsonreviewed by Chris Aitkens
Akashic Books, 300 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 It’s scary how transformative drugs can be. Don’t believe me? Sit down and read at least one story [...]
X – The Unheard Music: Silver Anniversary Editionreviewed by Craig Gilbert
Angel City Media 84 min., dir. by WT Morgan, with John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebreak After coming to the conclusion that [...]
POP. 1280 – The Horrorreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
There is something rotten going on in New York City, and luckily for us, noise rockers Pop. 1280 are there to chronicle the bad times. [...]
MAN ON A LEDGEreviewed by Matthew Schuchman
Summit Entertainment 102 min., dir. by Asger Leth, with Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, and Ed Harris Last year, I wrote a fairly scathing review of [...]
LOW ROAR – S/Treviewed by Garrett Lyons
Former Audrye Sessions frontman Ryan Karazija’s solo debut album is one that could easily be described in glittering generalities: “beautiful,” “stunning,” and “marvelous” are all [...]
ROBIN BACIOR – Rest Our Wingsreviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Rest Our Wings, the latest LP from the northern California singer-songwriter Robin Bacior, opens with beautiful piano chords and whimsical harmonies. Unlike many of her [...]
THE GREYreviewed by Matthew Schuchman
Open Road Films 117 min., dir. by Joe Carnahan with Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, and Frank Grillo In recent years, Liam Neeson has become the [...]
BOBBY – S/Treviewed by Patrick Hosken
A band called BOBBY might suggest sunny, non-threatening three-minute indie-pop. That’s not the case for this New England collection of assorted instrumenteers, though BOBBY’s experimental [...]
BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH – Defender, Redeemistreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
It has been said that a band shouldn’t put out their own material unless it’s really good and that people will want it. In the [...]
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