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Lorde

Melodrama

Republic/Lava

Jun 19, 2017 Music Web Exclusive

For artists like Lorde who kicked off their career with a legendary record, the anxiety surrounding the sophomore slump is usually there. But Ella Yelich-O’Connor has managed to bypass that notion with the follow-up to her 2013 debut Pure Heroine.

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From Noon Till Three

Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Jun 19, 2017 DVDs Web Exclusive

From Noon Till Three is a rare, unique entry into the annals of Western movies, a dark film that’s part comedy, part drama, and one that contains one of Hollywood’s more interesting commentaries on the nature of celebrity and myth-making.

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Com Truise

Iteration

Ghostly International

Jun 19, 2017 Music Com Truise

Remember a few decades back when synthesisers took over, heralding the sound of the future? That sound has diluted now, ironically becoming a past artefact modern electronic musicians turn to.

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Alone in Berlin

Studio: IFC Films

Jun 16, 2017 DVDs Web Exclusive

Death stalks Alone in Berlin, which should come as no surprise given it’s an anti-Nazi story unfolding in wartime Berlin.

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Jun 16, 2017 Music The Drums

The past has not been smooth sailing for The Drums. What began as a band seems to have reduced to only Jonathan Pierce. A promising start also came unstuck with a move away from the pure indie-pop that brought them to notice in the first place.

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Spotlight on a Murderer

Studio: Arrow Academy

Jun 15, 2017 DVDs Web Exclusive

Georges Franju’s 1961 film, Spotlight on a Murderer, is an odd little movie.

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Jun 15, 2017 Music Priests

Long unavailable except as streams on their Bandcamp page, the Washington D.C. band Priests has fulfilled the demand for the re-release of some of their earliest material by reissuing both of their early cassette releases on a single LP for Record Store Day.

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Good Morning

Studio: Criterion

Jun 14, 2017 DVDs Web Exclusive

When Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu released 1959’s Good Morning, it was the beginning of the final chapter of his life.

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Jun 14, 2017 Music Web Exclusive

When Fleet Foxes first appeared on the music scene, it was like they’d walked out of their own time and space and arrived in 2008 fully formed.

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