The Coldwave Poetry of Anne Clark’s Changing Places
Anne Clark’s debut LP still sounds fresh, inspiring, artful, gentle and beautiful 40 years later. It reminds us of a time when poetry, punk rock, new wave and electronic music … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Collection:002 album review
Long lost to posterity, Collection:002’s recent re-emergence as part of the Collection:001 – Collection:010 from Urashima finally gives completists a chance to hear one of Merzbow’s earliest recordings in all … Continue reading
Ambient Classics: Tangerine Dream – Aachen January 21, 1981 album review
On this classic ambient album, Tangerine Dream motor confidently into a new year with a new lineup, eschewing space ambient for a tighter, more song-focused prog ambient. Ah, the early … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Pumpkinhead (1988) horror movie review
Witchcraft meets folk horror meets creature feature in Pumpkinhead, a frightfully good tale of Appalachian terror that holds up exceedingly well! Witches on film don’t exist solely to bewitch young … Continue reading
Sunday Afternoon Movie: In the Shadow of the Sun (Derek Jarman, 1981)
Derek Jarman’s In the Shadow of the Sun is part home movie, part fever dream; a fantasy and a reverie and a technicolour nightmare, made more surreal, menacing, and beautiful … Continue reading
American Horror Story: 1984 Season Premier “Camp Redwood” Review
The early ’80s sleepover camp setting proves to be a charming vehicle for some entertaining performances and classic horror tropes on the American Horror Stories: 1984 season premier, Camp Redwood! … Continue reading
Dark Christmas: Elves (1989) Movie Review
This campy, bizarro Holiday Horror starts as a respectable Christmas creature feature/slasher, and then goes off the rails like some demented sleigh ride on DMT. It’s a few days before … Continue reading
Unheimlich Pop: The Sone Institute – Where Moth and Rust Consume (Front & Follow)
On his first album in six years, Roman Bezdyk drags ’90s electronica into the moth-eaten world of Hauntology. Hauntology has expanded far beyond the confines of experimental electronic music from the … Continue reading
Virginia Wing – Ecstatic Arrow (Fire Records) album review
Virginia Wing emerge from the fog on Ecstatic Arrow, revealing keen songwriting chops and a sturdy, unflagging heart. Here’s our Virginia Wing Ecstatic Arrow album review. When we last met … Continue reading