Month: August 2012

The Ugly Club

Event Reviews

May Terry relives a bit of teen pop nostalgia with The Ugly Club in NYC, where the ladies swoon over girl-candy frontman Ryan Egan.

Sam Phillips

Music Reviews

Martinis and Bikinis (Omnivore Recordings). Review by Carl F Gauze.

The Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show

Screen Reviews

Hearken back to the days when the family gathered around the boob tube and watched quality programming like The Dean Martin Variety Show. Six full episodes transport Tim Wardyn back to a time before he was even born, but that he still reminisces about.

Metric

Music Reviews

Synthetica (MMI/Mom + Pop). Review by Eli Didier.

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Pigface

Pigface

Music Reviews

The Howler: An English Breakfast (Overdrive/Invisible Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Idiot Grins

Idiot Grins

Interviews

Ink 19 talks with Idiot Grins about the making of Golf Cart Life, their evolution from Oakland soul-rock lifers to one of indie music’s most unpredictable acts.

Deathslope Music Festival 2026

Deathslope Music Festival 2026

Event Reviews

Eight bands from Colorado and as far away as New Zealand knocked the socks off the West Slope music scene on the last day of this year’s Deathslope Music Festival in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

Screen Reviews

John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.

The Eye

The Eye

Screen Reviews

What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.

Chapterhouse

Chapterhouse

Interviews

With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.