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Apr 05, 2017 Music Web Exclusive

After a number of solo albums as J. Tillman and a stint as Fleet Foxes’ drummer, Josh Tillman created Father John Misty to find his real voice. It seems to be paying off as he moves to the third album under his eccentric moniker, a musically quieter and lyrically more expansive follow-up to 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear.

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Jamiroquai

Automaton

Virgin EMI

Apr 05, 2017 Music Jamiroquai

For those who never stopped spinning the group’s turn-of-the-Millennium classics, the emergence of AutomatonJamiroquai‘s first since 2010comes as a mixed blessing.

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Colossal

Studio: Neon
Directed by Nacho Vigalondo

Apr 05, 2017 Cinema Web Exclusive

Spanish writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has built himself a reputation as a purveyor of off-beat genre fare.

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Lifeboat

Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Apr 04, 2017 DVDs Web Exclusive

Released in January of 1944, when the outcome of World War II was still far from certain, Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat was a bold and divisive film.

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Silver/Lead

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Apr 04, 2017 Music Web Exclusive

It’s not that Silver/Lead is a bad record. It’s not. But what is interesting about itthe atmospheric sounds and rhythms—are relegated to the background, if there at all, and then to only certain sections of songs.

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Sacred Bones

Apr 04, 2017 Music Web Exclusive

Herein, Margaret Chardiet celebrates a decade of her solo noise/industrial project’s noxious squall with an album that seeks to facilitate the listener’s mind transcending their physical body.

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The Assignment

Studio: Saban Films
Directed by Walter Hill

Apr 04, 2017 Cinema Web Exclusive

A dangerous mob assassin is given an unwilling sex change, and then goes on a violent murder spree to take vengeance on the mad doctor who performed the operation.

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The Excavation

Fantagraphics

Apr 03, 2017 Comic Books Web Exclusive

Max Andersson’s The Excavation is a warped, dark, pseudo-nightmare unlike anything in recent memory. A man brings his girlfriend home to meet his family, only to find that his home is not where he remembers it.

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Apr 03, 2017 Music Web Exclusive

Concrete Desert is an unexpected, yet welcome, collaboration by two esteemed veterans in their respective fields.

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