Music Reviews
Guided By Voices Drop a Late-Career Masterpiece with ‘Crystal Nuns Cathedral’
With Crystal Nuns Cathedral, Guided By Voices deliver a compelling statement and a thrilling testimony to the high artistry of Robert Pollard’s vision.
Music Features
35 Years Ago Country Music’s Three Greatest Queens Joined Forces on the Iconic ‘Trio’
Trio’s enormous success 35 years ago proved that a female-headed album could be a smash hit and that country music wasn’t merely a niche genre.
Film
Time Out for Love: Five Little-Seen Classic French Films Streaming on OVIDtv
OVIDtv specializes in documentaries and arthouse items such as these five French films of the 1950s and 1960s from directors Marc Allégret and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. This is my catnip.
Books
Chuck Klosterman’s ‘The Nineties’ Reads Like a Complex Murder Board
Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties glosses subjects like Green Day, the Green Party, and Alan Greenspan like an insanely complex, cross-eyed inducing murder board.
Television
Chuck Klosterman’s ‘The Nineties’ Reads Like a Complex Murder Board
Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties glosses subjects like Green Day, the Green Party, and Alan Greenspan like an insanely complex, cross-eyed inducing murder board.
Lists
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Albums of January 2022
This year things off in a furious manner with the Finnish black metal scene spotlighting two releases. Doom/death had an excellent representation. The outer edges feature post-metal, Boris, and rich jazz-metal.
