Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan
Christina Lee07.10.12
Singing in the dark: Christina Lee traces the evolving sound of the Dirty Projectors.
The Man Within The Metafiction: Laurent Binet’s HHhH
Michael McCanne06.21.12
Michael McCanne follows Laurent Binet’s struggle to retell the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich with integrity––by telling every story necessary. A review of Binet’s HHhH. If on a winter’s night two Czechoslovak partisans…
Semi-Ambient Track by Track Review of WIXIW by Liars
Blake Butler06.18.12
Blake Butler is subsumed in a landscape of blue icing and imaginary video games. WIXIW by Liars plays somewhere in the background. Instants splinter.
Waver & Change // Bring Me The Head Of Kyle Bobby Dunn
Mark Gluth06.09.12
Mark Gluth gets lost in the sonic vistas of Kyle Bobby Dunn’s latest, which will be released June 25.
Going to Graceland 25 Years Later
Christina Lee06.04.12
25 years after its release, Christina Lee imagines herself into Paul Simon’s Graceland, and finds its relevance and resonance intact.
The Revelatory Timing of Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music
Christina Lee05.17.12
Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music looks into the past and simultaneously into the future for inspiration. Christina Lee examines the auspices and reveals what the album may portend.
Vampire Diaries redux
Bradford Nordeen05.10.12
Bradford Nordeen explores the appeal of the derivative of the derivative… ad mortem.
Review: Patrick Wensink’s Broken Piano For President
Michael Louie05.04.12
The author of Sex Dungeon for Sale (and recent Fanzine contributor) Patrick Wensink is back with a new novel (and a cassette tape), a comedy that straddles alcoholic despair with cosmic “Burger Wars”. Michael Louie reviews.
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s Off Label
Justin Stewart04.25.12
Medicine can be life saving, or poisonous. Can we come by the medicines we take without human guinea pigs? Where we once used prisoners, now there is a subculture of volunteers. Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, directors of the much lauded October Country are back with a haunting document of the “off label” world. Off Label premiered this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival and is on to competition in Hotdocs in Toronto and then the San Francisco International Film Fest. Justin Stewart reviews.
It Was Acceptable in the 90s
Bradford Nordeen04.25.12
Some big historically notable ship sank (again, on film), someone stuck their dick in pie, and Buffy was the hottest vampire SLAYER going. It was the 90s and it’s happening again in a theater near you. Ship sinking (but in 3D), pie molestors getting together for a reunion and more Vamps than you can shake a cross at. Oh and Cabin in the Woods, which is timeless right? Bradford Nordeen takes us to the multiplex.
