Naomi Ackie stars as Whitney Houston in this musical biopic directed by Kasi Lemmons. Houston achieved superstardom as a singer but her personal life was tumultuous, including her familys disapproval of Robyn Crawford (Nafessa Williams)s presence in her life and her difficult relationship with husband Bobby Brown (Ashton Sanders). Her worsening drug addiction ultimately led […]
2 LP + 2 X 7″ 5/5 REVIEW AND FEATURE IN MOJO : “OUTTAKES AND LIVE TRACKS, ESSENTIAL FOR DEVOTEES, ROUND OUT VARIOUS EDITIONS. DALTON LOPES LIKE AN ALLEY CAT ON PAL FRED NEILS BLUES ON THE CEILING FROM MONTREUX ‘71 – BEWITCHING, UNBOTHERED. 5/5 BOXED REVIEW IN SHINDIG! “IN MY OWN TIME PLACES HER […]
You Smell So Good (aka Jackie and Roy) was the first album under their own name (and one of the best) by the husband-and-wife team of Jackie Cain (1928-2014) and Roy Kral (1921- 2002). It carries all the hallmarks of their style: wordless scatting on some tunes, playful lyrical interplay on others, and a focus […]
Side 1 1. Revelate 2. Angel At My Table 3. Fitzcarraldo 4. Evergreen 5. In This Boat Together Side 2 1. Say it To Me Now 2. Monument 3. Giving It All Away 4. Red Chord 5. Denounced 6. Your Face Fitzcarraldo – “”Fitzcarraldo”” is the sixth studio album by the Irish rock band The […]
Side 1 1. Perfect Opening Line 2. Seven Day Mile 3. Pavement tune 4. Plateau 5. Star Star ** 6. The Stars are Underground Side 2 1. God Bless Mom 2. Rent Day Blues 3. Hollocaine 4. Neath the Breeches 5. Dance the Devil back into his Hole Dance the Devil is the fourth studio […]
WAS 29.99 NOW 22.99 Side 1 1. The Dancer 2. You Were Wrong 3. Right Road (Wrong Road) 4. Before You Go 5. The Waltz 6. Downhill From Here Side 2 1. Masquerade 2. Picture of Love 3. Martha 4. Another Love Song 5. Telegraph Poles 6. Live Forever “Another Love Song – The Frames […]
Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam star in this drama written and directed by Payal Kapadia. Nurses and roomates Prabha (Kusruti) and Anu (Prabha) work at the same hospital in Mumbai as Parvaty (Kadam), a cook. Prabha yearns for her husband, to whom she was arranged to be married but who left her behind […]
Acclaimed composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns to Ghostly International with Let’s Turn it Into Sound, her most ambitious, intuitive, and inviting work to date. Though ambient and modern new age circles have embraced Smith’s catalog, Let’s Turn it Into Sound favors a more baroque and robust form of avant-pop. The music bursts […]
It’s death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami (Tampopo). In the wake of her father’s sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami’s wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband (Kagemusha’s Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. […]
Glynis Johns, Diana Dors and Sybil Thorndike star in this powerful, sympathetic drama tracing the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a womens prison. Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Joan Henry a writer and former debutante who further drew upon her own prison experience for the novel and classic […]
