Aug 19, 2016
Music
Slow Club
With the recording of their latest album, English duo Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson of Slow Club embraced the notion that just because someone’s not a member of your Club doesn’t mean you can’t play well together.
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Aug 18, 2016
Music
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They may be just one album down, but you already know what to expect from Factory Floor. Right from the very start, Nik Void and Gabriel Gurnsey’s sonic shtick has been dark, visceral electronica that pulses like the twitching, itching corpse of industrial techno.
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Studio: Lionsgate Premiere
Directed by Daniel Ragussis
Aug 18, 2016
Cinema
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Daniel Radcliffe endeavors to inhabit the challenging role of Nate Foster, a green federal agent who becomes embedded in the world of rural american white supremacy.
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Aug 17, 2016
Music
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It’s hard to figure out how to feel about music when you don’t know how you feel about the people making it. When an artist’s image is in disrepute and integrity in question, does this preclude true appreciation of the work he or she creates?
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Aug 16, 2016
DVDs
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Some movies feel too strange to be real – and Buckaroo Banzai is one such movie.
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Aug 16, 2016
Music
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Thomas Fec, better known by his stage name TOBACCO, makes music destined for abstract adjectives. Squishy, dirty, fuzzy, vibey, bouncy are each appropriate, if ultimately inadequate to describe the psychic dirge of his fourth solo record,Sweatbox Dynasty. Whatever strange non-musical term comes to mind when you hear it, there is that intangible thing that just makes it buzz with life and animation.
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Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Directed by Werner Herzog
Aug 16, 2016
Cinema
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In his new documentary about the pervasiveness of the Internet in modern society, Werner Herzog employs his familiar unfiltered treatment of subject matter.
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Aug 15, 2016
Music
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Following the release of All Kinds of You (2014) and Primrose Green (2015), Midwestern troubadour Ryley Walker was met with near universal praise for his fingerpicking dexterity and ability to weave disparate strands of folk, jazz, and blues into a coherent whole.
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Studio: Focus Features
Directed by Travis Knight
Aug 15, 2016
Cinema
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Those of you from my approximate group—we’ll call ourselves ‘80s kids—will remember a time when our favorite children’s films were watched through cracks between our fingers.
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Aug 12, 2016
Music
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What happens to an artist that specializes in youthful exuberance when they’re no longer young? On “Suffer for Fashion,” the first track from of Montreal‘s landmark 2007 album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Kevin Barnes put it thusly: “If we’ve got to burn out, let’s do it together.”
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