Movies are not unlike children, in that they should be seen and not heard — meaning that if a movie’s soundtrack really works, you shouldn’t even notice it. Jeff Beal’s score is so well-integrated…that you might leave the theater without remembering a thing about the music. But the soundtrack holds up superbly on its own, and […]
Help seven teams of editors and artists bring a many-headed Birkensnake 6 into the world! Bring your old speakers to the party (what do the kids listen to these days? Crimes? She & Him?) with the Bluetooth-enabled Vamp. Speedboat and Pitch Dark, two classics by Renata Adler newly reissued from New York Review Books, are […]
Lindsay Ellis, Nostalgia Chick: the Origin Story (see also: parts 1, 2, 3) Require Congressmen & Senators to wear logos of their financial backers on their clothing, much like NASCAR drivers do. Policeman, a one-way sign, a stop sign, and Dick Whitman? What do you see in the puzzling new Mad Men poster? Thessaly La […]
All of the men I love are dead now. At least it feels that way. After the news of Jason Molina’s death yesterday, I sat down and put on “Molina & Johnson,” stared at the ceiling, and let the knives dig in. Only the night before I was restlessly spinning Vic Chesnutt, the rain and wind beating at the window, trying to exhaust myself enough fall asleep. […]
The Riot Grrrl Collection edited by Lisa Darms might not come out until the summer, but while supplies last, copies signed by Darms, Johanna Fateman, and Kathleen Hanna are available through pre-order. Name your price for Borborygmus, a sonic gem by the mysterious Hebdomad. Garrett Tiedemann will have lots to say about it this week, […]
