‘House of Psychotic Women’ Is Enough to Drive a Woman Crazy
The films in House of Psychotic Women artfully depict crazy women and men revolving around each other in figure eights while also spinning in place.
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15 Same-Title Songs Go Head-to-Head
We rank 15 pairs of songs with shared titles and unearthed some wonderfully incongruous mashups and plenty of sacrilegious opinions.
2 Tone: Race, Music, and Pop Culture in Thatcher’s UK
2 Tone found a sweet spot between punk anger and pop sensibility that mirrored the myriad poles they were trying to bridge in their band members and audiences.
The Loud Warning of Ska Concert Film ‘Dance Craze’ Must Still Be Heard
Dance Craze, the legendary concert film about the ska revival in Britain, brilliantly captures the performers’ sweaty, frantic, animated energy and the warning in their music’s message.
The Deep and Distant Roots of the Ska-Punk Hybrid
Many only recognize ska-punk as a fad of 1990s US pop music, but its emanation and roots run much deeper and spread far wider than one may think.
Madness: Can’t Touch Us Now
Madness serves up a release that disappoints while also suggesting there’s still plenty of life left in the veteran band.
‘Darkest Dungeon’, a Masochist’s Dream
For as much as you level up in Darkest Dungeon, you will also level down. This is not power fantasy. This is a fantasy of cruelty and self inflicted pain.
‘Lilith’ Is Pregnant with Interpretive Possibility
As with most films about insane women, Lilith may be a proto-feminist indictment of sexist culture or actually embrace sexist notions of inherent female instability and narcissism.