Sacramento’s Early & Often can be summed up as a marriage of jagged industrial hiss and spacious guitar-driven post-rock. But don’t let the simplification underwhelm [...]
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EARLY & OFTEN – Present No Fiction, Fear No Tensereviewed by Patrick Hosken
THE IRON LADYreviewed by Matthew Schuchman
Film4 105 min., dir. by Phyllida Lloyd, with Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent Elvis Costello recorded perhaps one of the most spiteful tracks in the [...]
COLISEUM – Parasitesreviewed by Josh Diamond
The EP Parasites from Coliseum is a companion piece to 2010′s House With A Curse LP. Much of the EP consists of leftover tracks from that [...]
THE DARCYS – S/Treviewed by Peter Cauvel
Comparisons to Radiohead are tricky. Sure, the British rock band has received almost universal acclaim, so who wouldn’t want to be like them? But Radiohead [...]
LADDER DEVILS – Forget Englishreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
The music contained on this debut EP hearkens back to a time when shambolic rock met with loud noisy riffs and offbeat time signatures to [...]
KILL LISTreviewed by Matthew Schuchman
IFC Films 92 mins., dir. by Ben Wheatley, with Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, and Michael Smiley British indie cinema produces some amazing films, and two [...]
MIKE PARK – Smilereviewed by Shahab Zargari
Fact: Mike Park has two kids, born in 2006 and 2008. I have two kids, born in 2004 and 2007. Fact: Mike Park was the [...]
BLACK BANANAS – Rad Times Xpress IVreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
When judging a piece of music by Jennifer Herrema, you must abandon all concepts of irony and just go with the flow. You just have [...]
TOXIC HOLOCAUST – Conjure and Commandreviewed by Josh Diamond
Toxic Holocaust plays a sort of thrash metal that was at the peak of its popularity in the mid- to late ’80s. Thrash metal took [...]
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOOreviewed by Matthew Schuchman
Columbia Pictures 158 min. dir. by David Fincher, with Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and Christopher Plummer Someone is trying to test my ability to not [...]
BOUNDARIES by Elizabeth Nunezreviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Akashic Books, 275 pages, hardcover, $15.00 Set against the fast-paced backdrop of the publishing world, Boundaries is the story of a Caribbean immigrant struggling to reconcile [...]
WAR HORSEreviewed by Matthew Schuchman
DreamWorks 146 min., dir. by Steven Spielberg, with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Peter Mullan I always try my best to base my reviews solely [...]
HOTCHACHA/SUMMER PEOPLE – Do Itreviewed by Josh Diamond
The first four tracks of Do It are from Cleveland’s HotChaCha, delivering mostly simple but effective garage rock. This all-female four-piece has more of a [...]
ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD – Knife Manreviewed by Mark Huddle
Is it me or does it just seem like each new Andrew Jackson Jihad release is becoming something of an event? Certainly their most recent [...]
TWO TIMES INTRO: ON THE ROAD WITH PATTI SMITH by Michael Stipereviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Akashic Books, 128 pages, hardcover $23.95 What happens when REM front man Michael Stipe and beloved alt-rock chick Patti Smith collide? You get a photo [...]
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