Jul 27, 2015
Music
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Ezra Furman‘s third solo album is about youth, discontentment, and longing. A little scattered and with occasionally mediocre lyrics, it congeals into a fun, extremely varied, and repeatedly listenable album.
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Jul 24, 2015
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Matt Mondanile’s fifth album as Ducktails, St. Catherine, was recorded over an extended period of time around tour dates for Mondanile’s day job as guitarist for Real Estate.
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Jul 24, 2015
Music
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This electronic musician’s debut is best at its extremes—“Don’t Make” is as gentle as “Margarita” and “Seraph” are dramatic and pummeling, respectively.
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Studio: Lionsgate
Directed by Mark Neveldine
Jul 24, 2015
Cinema
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On her birthday, Angela becomes the unlucky recipient of a demon seeking out a new soul to corrupt.
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Jul 24, 2015
Music
iji
Zach Burba leads a team of Seattle indie stars (plus an assortment of horn players and backup singers) through a sunny mash-up of pop’s last five decades.
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Jul 23, 2015
Books
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Read the definitive account of the first two Isle of Wight Festivals, written by one of the festival’s organizers.
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Jul 23, 2015
Music
Wilco
How we all love a surprise. Especially when the surprise arrives as the happy continuation of Wilco‘s remarkable run of albums which now stretches back over 20 years (and even further if we consider Jeff Tweedy’s earlier Uncle Tupelo output).
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Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Jul 23, 2015
DVDs
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Watching Miracle Mile in its new Blu-ray edition from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, it feels like an unearthed masterpiece.
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Jul 23, 2015
Music
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After a 25-year gap since 1990’s A Gilded Eternity, Array 1 is but the first of three releases planned by the U.K. band Loop over the next year.
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Studio: The Film Arcade
Directed by Kris Swanberg
Jul 23, 2015
Cinema
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Unexpected tells the story of Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders), a Chicago inner-city science teacher whose unplanned pregnancy occurs concurrently with that of her star pupil, Jasmine (Gail Bean).
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