Aug 23, 2013
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Vetiver refugees Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille have created one of the few bands to compare themselves to Cocteau Twins and actually hit somewhere near that mark.
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Studio: Cinedigm
Directed by Destin Cretton
Aug 23, 2013
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Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr. deliver breakout performances as the protagonist supervisors of a foster-care facility, themselves former residents in their youth.
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Studio: Focus Features
Directed by Edgar Wright
Aug 22, 2013
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Five middle-aged friends reunite in their quiet British hometown to conquer the “Golden Mile:” a notorious, 12-pint bar crawl that barely bested them over 20 years earlier. Led by delusional alcoholic Gary King (Simon Pegg) and teetotaling lawyer Andy Knightley (Nick Frost), this boozing brotherhood retraces their steps through pub after pub and pint after pint until they realize there’s more to the sleepy townsfolk than it appears; they soon find the fate of the human race resting in their drunken hands.
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Aug 22, 2013
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A key component of the ‘90s alt-rock scene was that many of its musicians had an ambivalence bordering on downright contempt for the very art form they practiced.
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Studio: Magnolia
Directed by Joe Swanberg
Aug 22, 2013
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Easily his most commercially viable film, indie worker-bee Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies is a serviceably masculinized update on the oft-hackneyed romantic comedy.
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Aug 22, 2013
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Travis were championed by Oasis’ Noel Gallagher in 1997, back when that might have meant something. These days that doesn’t mean much and Travis doesn’t either.
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Aug 21, 2013
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Loud City Song is that rare, refreshing, and inspiring album that simply aspires to be a world unto itself. Pulling equally from modern classical, Tin Pan Alley musicals, musique concrète, and what can only be described as avant-pop as descendant from forebears such as Kate Bush and David Bowie, the album resists and even violently squirms away from attempts at categorization.
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Aug 20, 2013
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Uh-oh, No Age is messin’ with the formula. Their sound had its expansion and now it’s time to retract a little, to lean toward some of those punk roots rather than reveling in all that blissful guitar/noise wash.
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Aug 19, 2013
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After releasing their debut single “Born Again” in 2012, DIANA (Carmen Elle, Paul Mathew, Kieran Adams, and Joseph Shabason) got slapped with the descriptor “indie Sade,” which is as good a place as any to start describing their impeccably-constructed tunes.
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Studio: Radius/TWC
Directed by Zachary Heinzerling
Aug 16, 2013
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Relationships between two artists are common, and, in heterosexual couples, even more commonly reflect the gender inequities of the environment in which they create. This complicated dynamic is the subject of Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer.
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