“I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world or my world in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe […]
This first film by the legendary Hideo Gosha (Sword of the Beast) is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. In it, a wandering, seen-it-all ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) becomes entangled in the […]
Noir horror written and directed by John Parker. Set in Los Angeles Skid Row, the film follows a woman, the Gamin (Adrienne Barrett), as she leaves her downtrodden hotel room and wanders the streets, becoming involved in several violent altercations as she also recalls her troubled upbringing.
Elijah Wood stars in this remake of director William Lustigs 1980 horror classic of the same name. To say that Frank (Wood) is a troubled young man would be an understatement – as the ever-growing number of young women he has murdered since the death of his mother (America Olivo), with whom he enjoyed an […]
1. O Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel 2. Coventry Carol 3. Good King Wenceslas-Instrumental 4. The Little Drummer Boy 5. I Wonder As I Wander 6. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella-Instrumental 7. Down In Yon Forrest 8. The Carol of the Birds 9. Angels We Have Heard On High-Instrumental 10. Ave Maria 11. Marys Wandering 12. […]
The Phantom Band guitarist, Duncan Marquisss instrumental solo (ad)venture finds electronic guitar manipulations intertwine with wandering acoustic ambience. With one foot in 1970s Germany and the other in the woods, rivers and mountains of northeast Scotland. “I like it when music builds itself up in an organic fashion,” says Duncan Marquiss. “When it just seems […]
Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance), the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit—a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. A Star Is Born’s Fredric […]
17-track LP presenting the best hits of the early and, perhaps most significant, six years of Dion DiMucci’s recording career • Features eight US Hot 100 Top 10s: A Teenager In Love, Where Or When, Runaround Sue, The Wanderer, Lovers Who Wander, Little Diane, Love Came To Me and Ruby Baby • Pressed on 140g […]
Touch The Sky by Carole King was released in 1979. The country-tinged sound is much earthier than Simple Things and Welcome Home. Carole King is more contemplative in voice and melancholic, no doubt due to the death of her third husband, Rick Evers, earlier in the year. The personal loss is best felt in the […]
British drama directed by Carol Reed. Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) lives in a bustling area of Londons East End with his mother Joanne (Celia Johnson), above a tailor shop run by the kindly Mr Kandinsky (David Kossoff). As Kandinsky regales Joe with folk tales about mythology, he shares that a captured unicorn has the ability to […]
