For the past decade, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE have honed an aesthetic like no other. They’ve chopped up samples, chewed them up, spit them back out again, baby birded it. Across four albums and a smattering of EPs, Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede have fully solidified their stance as some of rock’s weirdest […]
All ten episodes of the fact-based HBO historical drama mini-series. The series tells the intertwined stories of three US marines – Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) – during Americas battle with the Japanese in the Pacific in the Second World War. Episodes are: Guadalcanal/Leckie, Basilone, Melbourne, […]
2 LP “Influential DJ, producer, radio-presentator and founder of the Acid Jazz and Talkin Loud labels Gilles Peterson has handpicked his jazz favourites from the immense catalog of the Dutch jazz Timeless label. Included are Pharaoh Sanders cosmic jazz “”Moonchild”, vocal-jazz from Carter Jeffersons “”Why””, danceable-jazz from Tom Grant “”No Me Esqueca””, Art Blakey & […]
SHE’S GOT THE POWER! is the follow-up to our “Girls Go Power Pop!” collection of female-fronted bands from the 80s and 90s, and the sisterly companion to “Come On Let’s Go!” and “Rockets Of Love!”, our two volumes of male Power Pop. The term Power Pop was coined by Pete Townshend in 1967 to highlight […]
2 LP Tracklist: Moth to the Flame Fly On the Wall Ill Be Waiting River of Pain Future Train Til the River Runs Dry Stand Up Preaching from a Chair Castles in the Sand Too Scared to Live Ball and Chain It Happened in This Town In a Broken Dream (Live at Club Citta Japan, […]
Medical Records presents a very special double A side reissue of Fullerton, CA band Null And Void. Null And Void recorded 3 albums (1980’s “Happiness And Contempt” , 1982’s “Montage Morte” and a 3rd in 2012). Both of the 1980s LPs have relatively short playtimes, so we have decided to reissue both in their entirety […]
Side A 1. Healing 2. I Smile For E 3. Tell Me 4. From a Sandbox 5. Fables (feat. Beck) 6. Hesitations 7. Gone Astray Side B 1. Bended Light 2. Ode to Dad 3. Rise So I Rose 4. Futbol 5. Nazila 6. Libra Sun 7. Note to Self Based in upstate New York, […]
What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968s The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, a fantastically phantasmagorical slice of twisted tokusatsu terror ostensibly made for children that […]
5 CD Somewhere (somehow) between the feverish grooves of Madchester and the anthemic charge of the Britpop brigade, musically eclectic mavericks No-Man made a small mark on the early 1990s UK Independent music scene. The band released two albums and series of singles on the influential OLI label (Björk, The Shamen etc), which generated rave […]
Double bill of Japanese sci-fi horrors. In The Invisible Man Appears (1949) a gang of criminals kidnap a scientist and use his invisibility formula to steal a priceless diamond necklace. In The Invisible Man Vs the Human Fly (1957) Chief Inspector Wakabayashi (Yoshiro Kitahara) teams up with scientist Dr Tsukioka (Ryuji Shinagawa), who has discovered […]
