Metal!: Huntress, Surgeon and Extinction Protocol
Bust out the lotion and Kleenex as Huntress returns!...
Category "Reviews"
Album Review: The Rain Parade, “Live In San Francisco”
Hearing that The Rain Parade had reunited towards the end of 2012 filled me with no end of joy. Sure, it’s been 30 years since I first bought Emergency Third...
TV on Blu-ray: “Breaking Bad: The Fifth Season”
The fifth season of Breaking Bad is thrilling, disturbing and heartbreaking, everything you’d expect from the Emmy Award winning series. ...
Metal!: Author & Punisher, Sadgiqacea and Hell
Tristan Shone returns as Author & Punisher to bring cold steel to the world. ...
DVD Review: “Clint Eastwood: 40-Film Collection”
The Clint Eastwood 40-Film Collection would seem to have just about anything a fan of Clint would need. ...
CD Review: Lisa Mychols, “Above, Beyond & In Between”
Dw Dunphy reviews the latest from indie pop true believer Lisa Mychols....
CD Review: Megadeth, “Super Collider”
This is the countdown to dysfunction....
TV Review: “The Eagles: History Of The Eagles”
It’s impossible to have grown up in the ’70′s without hearing The Eagles as a staple of AM radio, let alone not have been seduced by the catchy tunes and...
Album Review: The Lonelyhearts, “Years In The Great Interior”
A surprising release from this Iowa City/Fort Collins duo; music that is bright and sunny, counterbalanced by somewhat dark lyrics. I like this; it’s wide – all over the map...
Album Review: R.E.M., “Green (25th Anniversary Edition)”
In revisiting Green, I have to remove myself from the R.E.M.-worshiper that I was in the ’80′s; I was younger and a bit more crassly idealistic. Having not cared for...
Live Music: Tomahawk at Best Buy Theater, New York City, 6/2/2013
The only thing I experienced last night that was more intense than Tomahawk was the near-Biblical thunderstorm I drove through on the way home....
TV Review: “The Killing, Season Three”
If you loved the first season of The Killing, you’ll be glad to hear that the show has regained its footing. ...
Blu-ray Review: “The Numbers Station”
John Cusack plays a black ops assassin... again!...
CD Review: Alice In Chains, “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”
Does the new AIC stand up to a nearly-two-decade legacy?...
CD Review: Phil Madeira, “PM”
The Mercyland mastermind gets real on his latest, "PM."...
TV on DVD: “China Beach: The Complete Series”
CHINA BEACH, the beloved television drama, finally comes to DVD....
Live Music: Holy Ghost! at the Independent, San Francisco
A sold out crowd mobbed the Independent last Wednesday night to see one of DFA Records’ finest, the nu-disco exclamatory rock band Holy Ghost! Fresh off the completion of a...
Album Review: Rod Stewart, “Time”
Well, kick me in the head and call me Sally. What we have on offer here is Rod Stewart’s first LP of material “written entirely” by the laziest star in...
TV on DVD Review: K-9 The Complete Series
Remember when Doctor Who had a robotic dog that was so popular that he even spun off into his own show? Tony Redman reviews "K-9: The Complete Series"....
Film Review: “I Am Secretly An Important Man: The Jesse Bernstein Documentary”
I was first introduced to the poetry of Steven Jesse Bernstein back in 1993, through my then-roommate, who owned Bernstein’s Prison CD. It captivated me with its beat-era sound and the...
TV Review: “Family Band: The Cowsills Story”
Since storming the charts in 1967 with the remarkable “The Rain, the Park and Other Things,” the Cowsills have been oft-overlooked in the annals of rock history, dismissed as nothing...
Album Review: A Fragile Tomorrow, “Be Nice, Be Careful”
This band from South Carolina hits the mark with their fourth album, a Mitch Easter/Ted Comerford-produced collection of 14 songs that span the pop spectrum. The warm vocals of Sean...
Album Review: Deni Bonet, “It’s All Good”
I’ve seen the lovely Ms. Bonet of the blue violin perform on several occasions as part of Richard Barone’s band and it’s here that she gets to shine with an...
Metal!: Satan, “Life Sentence”
The best metal record of 2013 is right here with the return of Satan! ...
TV on Blu-ray: “Veep: The Complete First Season”
This HBO series has given Julia Louis-Dreyfus one of the greatest roles of her career....
Live Music: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at the Independent, San Francisco
“Is Rice-A-Roni really the San Francisco treat? It seems more like kale is the San Francisco treat. Or Mission burritos. I’ve been here quite a few times now and I...
TV on Blu-ray: “Dexter: The Seventh Season”
Is this a new beginning, or the beginning of the end?...
Metal!: Surachai, Aborym and Svartsyn
Surachai returns to expand the boundaries of what you think Black Metal is. ...
DVD Review: “Mel Brooks: Make A Noise”
Mel Brooks: Make A Noise -- Don't be schtupidt, be a schmarty!...
Metal!: ASG, Pasadena Napalm Division and Dark Buddha Rising
Kurt Brecht returns full force with his new group, Pasadena Napalm Division ...