Mar 04, 2019
Music
Issue #65 - Mitski and boygenius
The title for Helado Negro‘s spectral and triumphant seventh studio album—This Is How You Smile—derives from a Jamaica Kincaid story titled “Girl” that is narrated from the perspective of a mother giving her daughter advice on how to survive in the world.
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Mar 04, 2019
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A yuppie couple (David Duchovny & Michelle Forbes) pick up a serial killer (Brad Pitt) and his young girlfriend (Juliette Lewis) for a cross-country road trip in 1993’s Kalifornia.
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HBO, Sunday March 3 and Monday March 4
Mar 03, 2019
TV
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Leaving Neverland, a sprawling account of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Michael Jackson, was set for controversy from the moment it premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Mar 01, 2019
Live
The Orielles
It’s been an incredible 12 months for The Orielles. Having released their debut album Silver Dollar Moment this time last year, their popularity has grown considerably ensuring they can now fill venues of 450 capacity and upwards with consummate ease.
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Mar 01, 2019
Music
Royal Trux
It’s been 19 years since the profoundly fucked up Washington, D.C. duo dropped their last studio album, Pound For Pound, and 21 years since their last great record, Accelerator.
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Studio: Disney Signature Collection
Mar 01, 2019
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The inaugural film of Disney’s animated renaissance of the 1990s, The Little Mermaid celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019.
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Feb 28, 2019
Music
Criminal Hygiene
Run It Again is fairly fantastic Replacements rock ‘n’ roll from the LA scene stalwarts Criminal Hygiene. This, their second full-length, is a classic-indie-rock referencing bar-room beauty.
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Feb 27, 2019
Music
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With a Grammy award under his belt, Gary Clark Jr. has been heralded by the bigwigs. Out of the gate, following his 2012-released major label debut album, Blak and Blu, Rolling Stone headlined Clark Jr. as “The Chosen One” of blues.
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Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Feb 27, 2019
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Released in 1947 at the height of the post-WWII noir boom, Desert Fury is a film pushing against the boundaries of what was a hugely popular, but still nascent genre.
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Feb 26, 2019
Music
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Meg Duffy’s work under the moniker Hand Habits extracts the most precise and aesthetically pleasing attributes of her guitar work contributions to the likes of Kevin Morby (who Duffy has spent the last three years with as supporting lead guitarist) and The War on Drugs—this is where the similarities stop, though.
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