Jul 17, 2015
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Neil Young is angry. As the title suggests, this time around the subject of his ire is corporate greed.
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Jul 16, 2015
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Currents opens with “Let It Happen,” which instantly launches itself into the Tame Impala pantheon. Well, maybe not instantly—it takes close to eight minutes.
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Studio: Miramax/Roadside Attractions
Directed by Bill Condon
Jul 16, 2015
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Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories will undoubtedly relish in the way Bill Condon’s film—adapted from a 2005 novel—plays with canon. Non-aficionados may be disappointed with the dearth of actual mysteries.
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Jul 16, 2015
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The National
How many times could you listen to the same song repeatedly? Or, if you’re a musician, how many times could you handle playing that song over and over?
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Jul 15, 2015
Music
MS MR
MS MR‘s second album, How Does It Feel, kick-starts with no preamble with the jumpy and escalating “Painted.” This signals the extreme highs and lows of the duo’s follow-up to 2013’s well-received debut, Secondhand Rapture.
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Studio: Janus Films
Directed by Takashi Murakami
Jul 15, 2015
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Jellyfish Eyes is the directorial debut from fine artist Takashi Murakami.
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Jul 15, 2015
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Now this is a warm surprise. After roughly a 15-year hiatus, Dave Pearce has revived Flying Saucer Attack from the ashes—or the clouds—with an album of 15 solo pieces.
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Jul 15, 2015
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Girls Names aren’t exactly a band that shy away from reinvention. They wrote off their debut album of rackety surf pop as a disaster before it had even been released, calling it Dead to Me and moving swiftly on to the hypnotic,
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Jul 14, 2015
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LA Priest is all over the place. Thank goodness. Sam Dust, the 28-year-old behind the moniker, split with Late of the Pier in 2010 and hopped around the globe playing guitar in Connan Mockasin’s band.
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