Sep 26, 2013
Music
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
Lou Barlow can certainly roll with the punches. Being booted from Dinosaur Jr. just on the way to 120 Minutes semi-stardom would have been enough to demolish a lesser artist, but Barlow shifted his focus to Sebadoh, the home-recorded side project he shared with Eric Gaffney, and turned it into an indie rock dynasty all its own.
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ABC, Wednesdays 8:30/7:30 Central
Sep 25, 2013
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The Bad News Bears repeats itself on Back in the Game, which stars Maggie Lawson and James Caan.
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ABC, Tuesdays 8/7 Central
Sep 25, 2013
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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may not have sustained a feature film, but as an ongoing comic book equivalent of CSI, it has enormous potential.
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Sep 25, 2013
Music
Icona Pop
Icona Pop’s transformation into the feel-good band of the summer wasn’t simply a case of the right song and the right show. Crucially, the manner in which “I Love It” was used in HBO’s Girls—dialogue-free and couching a season-defining scene—was the real stroke of genius.
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Sep 25, 2013
Live
M83
Phantogram
On Sunday night, M83 made their Hollywood Bowl debut to a sold-out house.
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ABC, Tuesdays 10/9 Central
Sep 24, 2013
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A gang of gas station employees in Queens strikes it big in the state lottery, and they discover, of course, that with the promise of exponential wealth comes a deluge of moral ambiguity. Even with such a foreseeable conflict, Lucky 7 feels fresh and engaging, despite being based on the U.K.‘s The Syndicate.
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ABC, Tuesdays 9:30/8:30 Central
Sep 24, 2013
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You marry a guy whose nose you broke when you fell on him in a karaoke bar and now you’re the third in his string of wives and stepmother to his three kids. That’s the premise of Trophy Wife.
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ABC, Tuesdays 9/8 Central
Sep 24, 2013
TV
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
In the spirit of Happy Days, The Wonder Years, and That ‘70s Show, The Goldbergs takes the audience back a couple of decades to 1985, a simpler time when the wacky hijinks of a loving dysfunctional family can be filtered through pop-culture references and dated hairstyles.
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Sep 24, 2013
Music
Trentemøller
We’ve been wowed by the ambient electronic music of Denmark’s Anders Trentemøller, in his ability to craft rich, woofer-rumbling electronic soundscapes and slick club cuts. After two LPs and an assortment of compilations and remixes, we’ve come to expect those things from him. His new LP, Lost, delivers those goods, and takes his music to whole new heights.
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