Studio: Drafthouse Films
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Dec 13, 2013
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Abel Ferrara’s early cult classic, now being released uncut for the first time in North America.
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Dec 12, 2013
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Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM
Swede Axel Willner, aka The Field, is a man who can create a mood. From the euphoric minimal techno of 2007 album From Here We Go Sublime to his earlier work sampling Lionel Richie and The Four Tops, he has gained a reputation for multi-layered, building dance music that borders on the hypnotic.
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Dec 12, 2013
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Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM
Opening with a softly drifting acoustic guitar reminiscent of Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,” Trust—Matthew Daniel Siskin’s first full release under the Gambles moniker—immediately suggests itself to be a Jake Bugg-esque record that’s most likely to appeal to a small, slightly uninterested early evening crowd at one of the more family-friendly festivals.
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Dec 12, 2013
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Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM
Another group of London-based ‘70s fetishists with frankly questionable hair, Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs play a harder-edged brand of glam garage rock than psych labelmates TOY and Temples.
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Studio: Magnet
Directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Dec 11, 2013
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The recent revival of grindhouse filmmaking has produced several great films, and many terrible films cloaking their poor quality in a mask of irony.
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Dec 11, 2013
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Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band
It’s probably fair to say that we are not currently living in the age of the polymath. Jamie Foxx and, once upon a time, Will Smith have turned their hands to hip hop, and Tom Waits and Jon Bon Jovi make the odd film appearance with varying degrees of success, but none of these are exactly Thomas Young.
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Dec 11, 2013
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Au Revoir Simone
Move in Spectrums is filled with the perfect, warm sounds ubiquitous in contemporary indie pop-the gorgeous “We Both Know” washes you away on a bubbling river of guitar-but there’s far more here than just another collection of likable-but-forgettable songs.
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Dec 11, 2013
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Blitzen Trapper
VII gives you no indication that it was created after 1975. Blitzen Trapper‘s seventh full-length continues in the band’s tradition of offering listeners a timeless blend of folk, rock, roots, gospel, country, and everything in between.
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