Nov 05, 2015
Music
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Car Seat Headrest is the moniker of Will Toledo, a young Virginia musician who has been self-releasing albums on his Bandcamp page for years. He makes lo-fi, fuzzy pop-rock, with an emphasis on “lo.” His first release for a label, Teens of Style, is a collection of reworked songs from his musical past, and he has an album of new material set to be released next year.
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Studio: Open Road
Directed by Tom McCarthy
Nov 05, 2015
Cinema
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A journalistic investigation of pedophilia within the Catholic Church is at the center of Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight: a riveting, well-cast drama worthy of its early Oscar buzz.
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Nov 04, 2015
TV
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari—forever memorable as Parks and Recreation‘s fast-talking, business-minded, materialistic Tom Haverford—teams up with Parks and Recreation co-executive producer Alan Yang on Master of None, a new Netflix series. Ansari, who also writes and directs the new series, stars as Dev, a 30-year-old aspiring actor navigating career and personal life in New York City.
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Studio: Netflix
Directed by J. Davis
Nov 04, 2015
Cinema
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Manson Family Vacation is an atypical and supremely heart-filled road trip in disguise.
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Nov 04, 2015
Music
Here We Go Magic
On Here We Go Magic‘s self-titled 2009 debut, frontman Luke Temple sang, on the album’s closing vertiginous ballad “Everything’s Big,” “Eat like a cow, get fat like a pig.” The venomous nature of the line was mitigated by the gorgeous instrumentation, as Temple sank his fangs into rampant consumerism and hedonism.
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Published by Thomas Dunne
Nov 03, 2015
Books
Bernard Sumner
One year after Peter Hook’s memoir about his time in Joy Division, Bernard Sumner gives his perspective in Chapter and Verse. The book was published in the U.K. last year, and Sumner adds only a postscript for the U.S. edition.
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Studio: IFC Films
Directed by Natalie Leite
Nov 03, 2015
Cinema
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Early in Bare, Sarah (Dianna Agron) is told to hold on to whatever she has.
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Nov 03, 2015
Music
Salad Boys
Don’t let the title of this Christchurch, New Zealand band’s debut album fool you. Metalmania finds the trio varying their intensity between songs, though they’re all melodic exercises built to stick with you after a few spins.
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Nov 03, 2015
Music
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Barlow‘s 2005 solo debut (?!) and its excellent 2009 follow-up were sort of head-scratchers. They were good listens (I think Goodnight Unknown in particular holds up to closer scrutiny), but essentially none of the tracks would have been out of place on one of the Dinosaur Jr. reunion records or under the Sebadoh banner.
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Nov 02, 2015
Comic Books
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Convergence is DC Comics’ latest attempt to try to sort out some of their timeline issues. As usual, the main plotline is confusing as hell—basically, Brainiac has kidnapped cities from various doomed timelines in domes and shipped them to a single planet, where their heroes will do battle to determine which city/timeline is worthy of being given a new lease on life.
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