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Pulp functions less as a pulpy mystery or gangster tale than as a spoof of same, albeit a spoof that retains a noirish sense of fate and power.
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With all the roughneck charm of a '40s-era pulp novel and much style to spare, I, The Jury is a good, popcorn-filling yarn.
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The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s - Part 4 (40 - 21)
The fourth part of our examination of the 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s, including Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Pulp, and My Bloody Valentine.
24 Jul 2016
Pulp - "Common People" (Singles Going Steady Classic)
This ageless anthem was one of those moments when the outsiders took over and everyone wanted in.
28 Jun 2016
Fantom Menace: The Films of 'Fantomas'
One can’t help but feel as though the movements of this romantic and dreamlike world are the work of some whimsical puppet-mastery.
15 Jun 2016
Counterbalance No. 156: Pulp's 'Different Class'
You'll never live like common people. You'll never do what common people do. You'll never fail like common people. You'll never watch your life slide out of view and then dance and drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do. You can listen to the 156th most acclaimed album of all time.
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Garden State Greaser Noir in 'Iron Bound'
Most of the action in Brendan Leach's graphic novel, 'Iron Bound, boils over with smashed car fenders and swollen knuckles in Newark, New Jersey.
07 Oct 2013
Bill's Beatdown: 'Donnybrook'
Frank Bill’s stories are as rough as they come, hard packages of violence and sadness, tales of lives ripped apart by poverty and shame.
12 Mar 2013
Pulp: 10 April 2012 - New York
Two hours of idiosyncratic joy and blissful pop gold from Jarvis Cocker and company.
15 Apr 2012
Coachella 2012: Pulp + M83 + Frank Ocean
Coachella is streaming live all weekend and here you can catch entire sets from perennial Britpop faves Pulp, as well as M83 and Frank Ocean.
14 Apr 2012
Pulp: 1 September 2011 - London
Jarvis Cocker, getting to half a century of his cool existence, rocks and twists like no one else in British Pop.
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28 Sep 2011
'Shock Corridor': The Enemy Within
Sam Fuller’s lurid 1963 potboiler about an egomaniacal journalist going undercover in an asylum strips bare the schizophrenia of postwar America with vicious hyperbole.
31 Jan 2011
A.R.E Weapons: Darker Blue
With a smidgen less cockiness and a little more skill under their belts, NYC electro-punks are still kind of awesome.
12 Sep 2010
Funny How It All Falls Away: Pulp at Their Most Life-Affirming on 'This Is Hardcore'
On its release, Pulp's This Is Hardcore was derided as a commercial and artistic disappointment. Not so ten years later. Was the music ahead of its time, or did critics just have to reach their 30s to appreciate it?
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