The Horrors
Primary Colours (Beggars/XL Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Primary Colours (Beggars/XL Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Orcustus (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Bloodline (Candlelight). Review by Matthew Moyer.
From gothic siren to torch singer, Gitane Demone has been through it all. This new double-disc DVD collection chronicles the many phases and changes of her long and overlooked life and art.
Black Cascade (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Advance Base Battery Life (Tomlab). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Over Air (The Kora Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Wavvves (Fat Possum). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Matthew Moyer basks in the ramshackle glory of Sacred Harp singing, the oldest, and perhaps most punk, American religious music. This new documentary explains it all.
A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors (Hydra Head). Review by Matthew Moyer.
All hail the King! Matthew Moyer finds Jack Kirby’s comics legacy well-preserved in this pair of retrospectives from Twomorrows Press.
Desire In Uneasiness (Crucial Blast). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Hordes of Chaos (SPV). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (Interloper). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Apocalyptic sci-fi, Busby Berkeley, and the proto-punk of the Screamers collide head-on in this reissue of Rene Daalder’s lo-fi, hilarious, and terribly sad musical. Is that a twelve-year old Beck making a cameo?
Punctuated Equilibrium (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
War Metal Battle Master (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Take note, internet-broadcasting upstarts, the DVD reissues of Glenn O’Brien’s pioneering 1980s shambles of a talk show uncover a whole new level of transcendent slack. On this episode: Jeffrey Lee Pierce!
Everything/Everything (Tomlab). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Sea To The North (Breeze Hill). Review by Matthew Moyer.
John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.
What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.