Jan 29, 2017 Music ISON’s Cosmic Drone Conveys the Beauty and Terror of Outer Space (Review) This gorgeous space-themed EP blends metal and shoegaze to stunning effect.
Jan 28, 2017 Music Luxury’s Lee Bozeman Is Recording New Music for Velvet Blue Music The as-yet-untitled release will be recorded this February.
Jan 28, 2017 Music Austin’s Knife in the Water Announce New Album Reproduction, Reissue 1998’s Plays One Sound and Others The Texas group’s darkly cinematic take on country-western and Americana is still as timeless and haunting as ever.
Jan 26, 2017 Movies TV The Best Streaming Titles Arriving in February 2017 Coming soon: The greatest talking pig movie of all time, magicians, classic Schwarzenegger, classic James Bond, and more.
Jan 17, 2017 Music In Rotation: High-Functioning Flesh, Slowdive, Drab Majesty, Box and the Twins (Review) Minimalist industrial punk; the return of a shoegaze legend; dreamy inter-dimensional post-punk; and darkly lush pop from Germany.
Jan 12, 2017 Comics Nerdery Tsutomu Nihei Reveals His Next Manga Series, Aposimz Aposimz contains plenty of Nihei trademarks plus a few tweaksthat give it some unique flavor, too.
Jan 11, 2017 Concerts Music Watch Arcade Fire’s 2014 Performance of “Reflektor” at London’s Earls Court It’s one of the best Arcade Fire songs to date — and a nice tease for their upcoming concert film.
Jan 10, 2017 Music Insides’ “Ghost Music” Is the Ambient Pop Duo’s First New Song in 16 Years And it picks right up where their masterpiece, 1993’s Euphoria, left off.
Jan 8, 2017 Music This Tooth & Nail Records Catalog Is a ’90s Christian Music Time Capsule I’d spend hours poring over catalogs like these, trying to decide what music to buy with my meager college paychecks.
Jan 3, 2017 Comics Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame! Is a Beautifully Nightmarish Cyberpunk Epic (Review) Vertical Comics’ excellent reprint captures all of the engrossing and unsettling detail in Nihei’s intricate artwork.
Jan 2, 2017 Opus News Opus in Numbers (2016 Edition) 2016 was actually a pretty good year — at least as far as Opus’ analytics were concerned.