Thursday, September 17 2009
Community: Series Premiere
Before you can say "The Breakfast Club," Community begins challenging stereotypes while also arguing that community college is one of the great equalizers.
George Sprott: 1894-1971, A Picture Novella by the Cartoonist Seth
An almost overwhelmingly beautiful book-as-art-object, George Sprott also tells an intriguing story with an intense and pervasive mix of melancholy, nostalgia, introspection and gags.
Wednesday, September 16 2009
Circulatory System: Signal Morning
Signal Morning is not only a vital part of Elephant 6's continued excellence; it's one of the best damn albums of the year.
Friday, September 11 2009
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses: 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
Imagine if you will: an album re-release that actually gets everything right, making an already-classic album sound even better than before, deepening our understanding as to what made it so iconic.
Friday, September 4 2009
BLK JKS: After Robots
Vowels or no vowels, this arty post-punk band from South Africa rocks with an intelligence and sensitivity sorely missing in pop music today.
Thursday, September 3 2009
Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story
Federal funding for the arts in the U.S. was a contentious issue for FDR's Works Progress Administration.
Friday, August 28 2009
Katyn
Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda tackles a very personal subject in the harrowing Katyn, the long-denied Soviet massacre of the Polish officer corps in WWII.
Mount Eerie: Wind’s Poem
The true achievement of Mount Eerie's Wind's Poem is the redemptive arc Elverum finds within the black metal context.
Friday, August 21 2009
Madness: The Liberty of Norton Folgate
The North London Nutty Boys return with an ambitious, nostalgia-tinged effort -- and hit a new career high.
Megafaun: Gather, Form & Fly
By shifting focus on this new record, fitting the experiments into more traditional structures instead of the other way around, Megafaun has produced one of the best records of 2009.
