Holiday Matinee (Various Artists) Pedal Faster Bicycle Rider Accident Prone By: Eric G. The trouble with genre music is that bands get really lazy because it doesn’t take much to fit in, so if you dress the part and sprinkle your sound with the tell-tale signs, you’ve got it made. There are too many suckers […]

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Drop Dead Gorgeous Directed By Michael Patrick Jann New Line Cinema By: Eric G. Drop Dead Gorgeous is not nearly as artful or cerebral as Fargo is, but it is almost as funny despite many forced and easy laughs. Both films take place in the small-town Midwest and both films share a similar strain of […]

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The Blair Witch Project Directed By Dan Myrick Artisan By: Eric G. I tried so hard to be scared by this movie, but I just couldn’t do it. I don’t know if it’s because I knew too much from all the hype or if my expectations were too high. Whatever the case I wasn’t scared. […]

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Slick Sixty Nibs And Nabs Mute By: Eric Greenwood This debut album from South London’s Slick Sixty combines the band’s early singles and b-sides for an electro-jazz, bigbeat, breakbeat, old school extravaganza. Think Screamadelica-era Primal Scream mixed with lazy, laid-back hip-hop beats and smooth seventies funk on top of early nineties psychedelia and you’ll be […]

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The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (Volume 3) Merge By: Eric Greenwood Stephin Merritt has pulled it off- the most ambitious pop concept album of the decade. Saving the best for last, Volume 3 of 69 Love Songs is far and away the finest batch of tunes in the collection. Following the cheesed-up dub-reggae of […]

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Kristin Hersh Sky Motel 4ad By: Eric G. Kristin Hersh’s solo albums in the past have been haunting yet subtle displays of bare bones emotions and manic terror, all three of which were acoustic. Sky Motel marks the fist time Hersh has played with a full band since the final Throwing Muses album, 1996’s severely […]

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Danielson Famile Tri-Danielson!!!- Part II [omega] Tooth By: Eric G. Daniel Smith is the leader of the Danielson Famile. He has a voice unlike most. His phrasing is similar to Black Francis’ circa Doolittle, but his range is several octaves higher. He writes and plays songs with his brothers and sisters about God, but this […]

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