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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.


Repulsion (Reviews) [14.Aug.09]
Torchwood: Children of Earth (Reviews) [10.Aug.09]
Inherent Vice (Reviews) [7.Aug.09]
Kronos Quartet: Floodplain (Reviews) [7.Aug.09]
Beeswax (Reviews) [6.Aug.09]
Goran Bregović: Alkohol (Reviews) [30.Jul.09]
POV: Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (Reviews) [28.Jul.09]
Maxwell: BLACKsummers’ night (Reviews) [24.Jul.09]
POV: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (Reviews) [21.Jul.09]
Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine (Reviews) [21.Jul.09]
In Their Boots: Silent Partners (Reviews) [16.Jul.09]
Various Artists: Legends of Benin (Reviews) [14.Jul.09]
Moon (Reviews) [9.Jul.09]
Florence and the Machine: Lungs (Reviews) [7.Jul.09]
Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer (Reviews) [25.Jun.09]
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (Reviews) [19.Jun.09]
Rhett Miller: Rhett Miller (Reviews) [12.Jun.09]
Nurse Jackie: Series Premiere (Reviews) [8.Jun.09]
The Chaser (Chugyeogja) (Reviews) [2.Jun.09]
Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall (Reviews) [2.Jun.09]
Loot (Reviews) [1.Jun.09]
‘Up’ Makes It a Perfect 10 for Pixar (Short Ends and Leader) [29.May.09]
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Reviews) [26.May.09]
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart (Reviews) [20.May.09]
Svarte Greiner: Kappe (Reviews) [6.May.09]
New ‘Trek’ Should Live Long and Prosper (Short Ends and Leader) [5.May.09]
The Limits of Control (Reviews) [1.May.09]
Beastie Boys: Check Your Head (Features) [30.Apr.09]
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  6. Tenacious D: Rize of the Fenix (Reviews)
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  10. Punk Rock's Pet Sounds: An Interview with Bomb the Music Industry! (Features)
  11. Counterbalance No. 82: U2's 'Achtung Baby' (Sound Affects)
  12. She's a Rainbow: A Tribute to Donna Summer (Features)
  13. 'Albatross': A Not-So-Weighty Coming-of-Age Meets Mid-Life-Crisis Film (Reviews)
  14. This Is All There Is: The Boredom of Lessened Expectations (Short Ends and Leader)
  15. Go Goth!: Ranking the Burton/Depp Collaborations (Short Ends and Leader)
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  18. Best Coast: The Only Place (Reviews)
  19. The Best Canadian Records of the Year? The Fun Agony of Voting for the Polaris Prize Long List (Sound Affects)
  20. Something’s Wrong with the Black Widow! (Graphic Novelties)
  21. Flash Points: Mommy's Breast, Marriage Equality and Why Chipotle Is King (Features)
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  23. Counterbalance No. 83: The Stooges' 'Fun House' (Sound Affects)
  24. Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music (Reviews)
  25. Willie Nelson: Heroes (Reviews)
  26. Like a Jack London Story on Steroids: 'The Grey' (Reviews)
  27. The Cult: Choice of Weapon (Reviews)
  28. 'People's Pornography': The Mundanities of Pornography and Surveillance Culture (Reviews)
  29. Sherlock Holmes, Dirk Gently and the Case of the Eccentric Detective (Columns)
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