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
Music
LA Priest
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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Jul 14, 2015
Books
Aziz Ansari
In his debut book, Aziz Ansari teams with NYU sociologist Eric Klineberg for a sociological overview/research project on how technology is changing the way we seek out love and communicate with potential/current partners. And of course, it is humorous.
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Studio: IFC Films
Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Jul 14, 2015
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In 1971, Stanford psychology professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo embarked on a controversial study of the psychological effects of imprisonment.
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Jul 14, 2015
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Who is Brandon Flowers, exactly? If the desired effect of his second solo album is to keep us from getting any idea whatsoever, then mission accomplished.
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Jul 14, 2015
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On first hearing The Darkness’ fourth album, this reviewer had to check that Justin Hawkins was still a part of the band.
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