Mar 28, 2018
Music
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Upon the release of their debut album in 2016, there didn’t appear to be a lot to shout about in regard to Sunflower Bean. Hyped up, as with many a modern day band, their stylings felt neat and measured—hardly words you’d want associated with a first impression, especially as a band made up of three, all of whom were barely scraping twenty.
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Mar 27, 2018
Music
Guided By Voices
It must be tough to keep everything fresh when it’s your 26th album. Guided By Voices sidestep this onerous task by making the same one over again, bringing out different facets and refining it, until it’s time to have a rethink.
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Mar 26, 2018
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Portlander Haley Heynderickx came to international attention through last year’s wondrous NPR Tiny Desk concert set. With just one EP to her name (2016’s promising Fish Eyes) Hendrickx has built a head of steam prior to the release of her debut proper, the brief, brilliant I Need to Start a Garden, drawing comparisons with the likes of Cat Power, Sharon Van Etten, and Jeff Buckley along the way.
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Mar 26, 2018
Music
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The picture on the front of the new album from Preoccupations looks like the kind of thing usually found in a brightly lit, sparsely furnished modern art gallery. There’s a striking, industrial feel that draws the gaze through circle, triangle, and square. It’s also more interesting than nearly anything on New Material.
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Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Mar 26, 2018
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“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture…”
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Mar 23, 2018
TV
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Trust is the latest marquee show from FX, the home to many of the best marquee shows. Executive produced by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), the show tells the saga of the extremely rich and extremely odd Getty family.
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Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Mar 23, 2018
DVDs
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For a director who looms as large in the history of cinema as Sergio Leone, the man had a surprisingly small filmography.
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Mar 23, 2018
Music
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Canada’s premiere Noh-Wave prog act has never been accused of making simplistic music. Their latest record was conceived as the “soundtrack for an unreleased [Iroquois] and Buddhist themed Anime produced in 1987,” and to fully appreciate the album you must be of the right mind to accept that.
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Mar 22, 2018
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Jack White was once the antithesis to rock ‘n’ roll excess. With The White Stripes, he produced sharp, minimalist rock songs that laughed in the face of the genre’s extravagances. Even on his more lavish solo albums, White’s writing was still taut and efficient. Which makes this new album an extraordinary departure, as it is a record that seems to ignore traditional songcraft completely.
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Studio: Fox Searchlight
Directed by Wes Anderson
Mar 21, 2018
Cinema
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Our review of Isle of Dogs, the star-studded second animated feature from Wes Anderson.
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