Dec 21, 2015
Music
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Gimme Fiction was a landmark album for Spoon, another big leap in the middle of a career that had already made two or three big ones. Coming three years after Kill the Moonlight, a collection of roughshod soul sounds, Fiction sounded slick and rich, laying down massive piano and bass grooves and riding them through to the three-minute sunset.
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Studio: The Weinstein Company
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Dec 21, 2015
Cinema
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It’s a few years after Civil War, and eight people are trapped together in a one-room cabin when a snow storm prevents them from reaching their destination.
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Dec 21, 2015
Music
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The instrumental duo returns from hiatus with a new LP of hard-driving prog and ‘80s horror/sci-fi score-inflected tracks; it’s their first of several written live in the studio, giving it an immediacy that their two preceding records lacked.
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Dec 19, 2015
Books
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Def Leppard guitarist, Phil Collen, writes a weird autobiography.
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Fantagraphics
Written and Illustrated by Robert Triptow
Dec 18, 2015
Comic Books
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Cartoonist Robert Triptow’s Class Photo is an inventive, humorous, and decidedly raunchy chronicle of the fabricated lives of five-dozen actual 1937 graduates of P.S. 49 in New York City. While in college, Triptow stumbled across a forgotten class photo.
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Dec 18, 2015
Music
Issue #55 - November/December 2015 - EL VY
Baroness’ first outing on their own Abraxan Hymns imprint finds them plumbing the depths of the well of harmonic Southern-tinged prog metal they first tapped to enormous success on 2009’s Blue, and yet further on the 2012 double albumYellow & Green.
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Dec 18, 2015
DVDs
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Wade Parent is the only man who can stop The Car… a customized ‘71 Lincoln Continental driven by Evil itself!
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Studio: Factory 25
Directed by Nathan Silver
Dec 18, 2015
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In Stinking Heaven, writer/director Nathan Silver suggests that many of us can’t help but instinctively return to our roots, no matter how poisonous said roots may be.
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Dec 18, 2015
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Multi-national shoegaze unit Cheatahs’ latest dials down the volume for a psychedelic, textured sound that’s a leap forward from their already-impressive debut album.
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Dec 17, 2015
TV
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Netflix’s 10-part true crime series, spanning three-times as many years, is an immediately engrossing, roller coaster of a documentary from the writer-director team, Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi. Making a Murderer instantly lands among the upper echelon of investigative crime reporting—joining the likes of the Serial podcast, Dear Zachary, and Paradise Lost—as it chronicles the unbelievable and often infuriating saga of Wisconsin convict, Steven Avery.
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