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Data Doom (LP)

Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Hard heavy garage rock about societal collapse. Fun! Read more

Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua (LP)

Ana Frango Electrico
Groovy Brazilian tunes channeling disco elements and modern pop. A great follow up to 2019's "Little Electric Chicken Heart" which you should also check out! Read more

Kleenex/Lilliput (Book)

Marlene Marder
Expanded edition of Marder's original documentation of her time in Kleenex (later Lilliput). Featuring photos, zines flyers, interviews and more! Read more

Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes
“Gone Daddy Gone” nukes Middle-America values. Daddy's little girl isn't going to Sunday church anymore. Read more

Scott

Scott Walker
Scott takes a long drag off Jacques Brel’s cigarette and hires a whole damn circus to play on “Mathilde.” Stay till "Amsterdam," when everyone's too drunk and tired to leave the bar. Read more

Chairs Missing

Wire
You want to hear what a nervous breakdown sounds like? Crank this baby up to eleven. They’ll roll you out strapped to a gurney. Read more

Pieces of the Sky

Emmylou Harris
Play “Boulder to Birmingham'' with the windows down, going sixty-plus in the desert, with the sunset, after a break-up. No one can see you cry with your shades on. Read more

Actually

Pet Shop Boys
You can’t coast off your looks forever, handsome. But the Pet Shop Boys let you know you’re not suffering alone. Time to get a real job now. Ugh. Read more

Candles in the Rain

Melanie
When the quiet girl in the back of the class is forced to perform at the school's talent show—that's Melanie. She shuts everyone up, never singing again. RIP. Read more

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Robert Altman
Altman's mud movie. Roger Ebert called it perfect. Watch it so you can agree. Read more

Black God, White Devil (BLU)

Glauber Rocha
Rocha's characters behave without the posturings of civility. Everything's primal. They emit from the earth. Read more

The Day of the Locust (BLU)

John Schlesinger
Flawless casting. L.A.'s an oven. Watch its rejects cannibalize themselves for attention. Read more

Scarlet Street

Fritz Lang
Joan Bennett with her Jersey accent. Jet-black hair. Jet-black heart. She makes a groveling Edward G. Robinson paint her toenails! Read more

Pasolini 101 (BLU)

Pier Paolo Pasolini
If you thought Saltburn was perverse, Teorema is Ground Zero. Read more

Zach Bryan

Zach Bryan
The history of country music rests inside Zach Bryan's voice, like the bottom of a well. Read more

Make Them Beg For Death (LP)

DYING FETUS
This is one solid death metal album that hits all the right notes. It is hard for me to believe that it has been 20 years since I first heard these guys on a relapse cd sampler, but in that time these folks have been busy refining their skills. Make Them Beg for death is full of heavy slam like grooves and hooks, great vocals and just enough solos. Over all a very strong album and one I find myself listening to on a regular basis. Read more

Om Hundrede Ar (LP)

AFSKY
A black metal album that delivers on the atmosphere and strong compositional songs. This is the real deal folks. Another one for my albums of the year. Read more

Deformity Adrift (LP)

NIGHTMARER
This album is crushing. It breathes out a forbidding stench of filth, doom and despair. The art is excellent. The mix is perfect. This is death metal done right. This too will go on my albums of the year list. Read more

The Enduring Spirit (LP)

TOMB MOLD
This band could have played it safe and made OSDM standard album #4. However, They choose to try a different approach. They took all the great tech nerd parts of VOIVOD and late era DEATH, yet never wondered into a watered down version of metal. I am looking forward to hearing where they will go next on their exploration of the creative spirit. Read more

Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
Excellent. This is true in spirit and real black metal. More please. Read more