Feb 20, 2015
Music
Dutch Uncles
Almost as soon as they emerged on to the Manchester scene back in 2010, Dutch Uncles carved a very defined niche into the British independent music world.
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History, Thursdays 10/9 Central
Feb 19, 2015
TV
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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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Feb 19, 2015
Music
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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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Feb 18, 2015
DVDs
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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 record—but it’s the best of the lot.
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Feb 17, 2015
Music
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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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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 violence—ridden cities. Mega—City One is one such metropolis.
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Feb 13, 2015
DVDs
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Watership Down is a rather faithful adaptation of Richard Adams’ book, as well as a milestone work of independent animation.
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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Feb 13, 2015
Cinema
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Kingsman is just as much a parody of James Bond and his spy genre cousins as the Austin Powers franchise.
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