Aug 17, 2011
Music
#37 – St. Vincent
Mister Heavenly is currently the only doom wop group on the scene, perhaps because they invented the still-hard-to-pinpoint genre. Reportedly pulling from a history of heartbreak and the soulful laments of 1950s R&B—although opener "Bronx Sniper," with its snarls and heavy guitars, is more garage rock revival than anything else—Mister Heavenly possess a gritty sort of charm. More
Vertigo Crime
Written by Matte Casali; Art by Kristian Donaldson; Cover by Lee Bermejo
Aug 16, 2011
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In 99 Days, Los Angeles Detective Antoine Boshoso Davis is constantly vexed by his nightmares of a Rwandan boy about to commit a grisly act of murder that no child should commit or even witness. More
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Aug 16, 2011
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The 1958 film The Music Room was a watershed moment for Indian director/composer/writer/producer Satyajit Ray. The slow-paced drama eschews much of the melodrama and garish musical interludes of normal Bengali films and centers its story on an aging zamindar (feudal landlord) who is fading into obsolescence. More
Aug 16, 2011
Music
#37 – St. Vincent
What's the difference between a solo Luke Temple album and his work with Here We Go Magic, a band that formerly consisted entirely of Luke Temple? It's not merely labeling, as someone expecting to hear a Here We Go Magic record would be surprised, and perhaps disappointed by Don't Act Like You Don't Care. More
I Kill Love/Cooperative Music/Downtown
Aug 15, 2011
Music
#37 – St. Vincent
Swedish duo I Break Horses (Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck) take their cues from shoegaze greats, at times sounding like the younger siblings of Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and Ride. But far from a promising, yet diminutive relative—simply aping their older family members' accomplishments—the band owns their influences on every track of their impressive debut album. More
Aug 12, 2011
Music
#37 – St. Vincent
Boss-gaze. That's where we're at in mid-2011, adrift in the post-irony, post-industry music industry, its genre barriers and business models laying by the wayside like broken levies. Philadelphia's The War on Drugs wear some clear influences on their sleeves, raking the anthems and everyman balladry of Bruce Springsteen over a bed of shoegaze and dream pop stylistics. More
Aug 12, 2011
Video Games
#37 – St. Vincent
The purest measure of any game on a phone or tablet is addictiveness, and Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim ends up somewhere right around crack. More
Aug 11, 2011
Music
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Come Back to Us, the debut full-length from Zach Rogue's (Rogue Wave) new project, Release the Sunbird, is a warm album of gentle, deceptively simple tracks that subtly recall the best of the '90s acoustic rock revolution. More
Aug 10, 2011
Music
#37 – St. Vincent
With his previous project, The Dutchess & the Duke, Jesse Lortz cultivated a distinct indie version of Between the Buttons-era Rolling Stones. More
