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Apr 16, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

With an output of 14 albums in two decades, singer/songwriter Damien Jurado exhausted pretty much every avenue. On his new album In the Shape of a Storm, Jurado resigns to just the bare elements that anchor his restless career: his voice, his words, and his guitar. Opening cut “Lincoln” concedes as much: “There is nothing to hide.”

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Apr 15, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

British songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich has always made beautiful musiccalming and celestial songs held together by his soothing, solemn vocals.

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Hard Ticket to Hawaii

Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment

Apr 15, 2019 DVDs Web Exclusive

Andy Sidaris’ most entertaining b-movie lands on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment.

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Apr 15, 2019 Live Tallinn Music Week 2019

For three days each spring, a corner of the old town in the Estonian capital transforms from a preserved, post-industrial throwback to a bustling, anything-is-possible playground for hundreds of invited artists and speakers to splash around in.

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Apr 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

In 2017, Washington, D.C post-punks Priests announced themselves to the world with, despite the claims for the contrary, a big bang.

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Bend of the River

Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Apr 12, 2019 DVDs Web Exclusive

Even more so than James Stewart or Arthur Kennedy, the true star of Bend of the River is the Pacific Northwest landscape, rendered in gorgeous Technicolor and benefiting handsomely from Kino Lorber’s 4K transfer.

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Mike “McBeardo” McPadden

Teen Movie Hell

Published by Bazillion Points

Apr 12, 2019 Books Web Exclusive

Over the course of Teen Movie Hell, McPadden runs the gauntlet of coming-of-age comedies, “from Animal House to Zapped!

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POND

Tasmania

Interscope

Apr 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

On “The Boys are Killing Me,” one of the centerpieces of POND’s groove heavy psych-pop opus Tasmania, frontman Nick Allbrook sings “So we staggered off into the night/Drunk, but overjoyed just to be employed.”

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Jess Ribeiro

LOVE HATE

Barely Dressed

Apr 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

For Jess Ribeiro, the creative process often out outshines the finished product. The Melbourne-native (whose 2015 effort, Kill It Yourself, was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize) recorded her third studio album, LOVE HATE, in the remote seaside town of Lyttleton, New Zealand.

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