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Vikings (Season Three)

History, Thursdays 10/9 Central

Feb 19, 2015 TV Web Exclusive

Season Three of History Channel’s consistently and ferociously entertaining hit series, Vikings, finds Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and his band of raiders back in Wessex, England, where they enter into an untested alliance with King Ecbert (Linus Roache) and Princess Kwenthrith (Amy Bailey).

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Mount Eerie

Sauna

P.W. Elverum & Sun

Feb 19, 2015 Music Web Exclusive

Phil Elverum just can’t stop recording music and his latest album as Mount Eerie, Sauna, is proof we should be thankful for that. He’s been doing indie folk since before it was even a thing. He’s of the same graduating class as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Jeff Mangum, Songs: Ohia, and Sun Kil Moon.

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Don’t Look Now Blu-ray

Studio: Criterion

Feb 18, 2015 DVDs Web Exclusive

As a piece of film art, it’s a masterpiece. As a work of storytelling, Don’t Look Now isn’t as clean-cut.

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Feb 18, 2015 Music BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah has gotten around in the last three months. In December came the long-awaited new Wu-Tang record, A Better Tomorrow. A week later, Ghostface delivered his latest album: the quasi-concept LP 36 Seasons.Sour Soul, his third release in as many months, isn’t technically his recordbut it’s the best of the lot.

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Feb 17, 2015 Music Web Exclusive

The huge success of indie crossover acts like M83 and Passion Pit naturally led to a wave of moody electronica and synth-pop that has lasted the past few years.

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Feb 16, 2015 Music Issue #52 - January/February 2015 - St. Vincent

A Place to Bury Strangers’ noisy fuzz is its trademark. On the trio’s fourth album, Transfixiation, this working noise-rock formula is not much changed. Taking cues from the Brooklyn-based, “nu-gazer” threesome’s ear-splitting live shows, which primarily take place in complete darkness, Transfixiation sounds like it was recorded in such a void-and that is not at all a bad thing.

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Judge Dredd: City Limits Volume One

IDW

Written by Duane Swierczynski, Art by Nelson Daniel

Feb 13, 2015 Comic Books

It is the 22nd Century. Nuclear fallout has forced most of the human population into enormous, overpopulated, crime and violenceridden cities. MegaCity One is one such metropolis.

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Watership Down Blu-ray

Studio: Criterion

Feb 13, 2015 DVDs Web Exclusive

Watership Down is a rather faithful adaptation of Richard Adams’ book, as well as a milestone work of independent animation.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

Studio: 20th Century Fox
Directed by Matthew Vaughn

Feb 13, 2015 Cinema Web Exclusive

Kingsman is just as much a parody of James Bond and his spy genre cousins as the Austin Powers franchise.

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