Month: July 2017

Bad Company

Music Reviews

Run with the Pack / Burnin’ Sky (Rhino / Swan Song). Review by Christopher Long.

Styx and REO Speedwagon

Styx and REO Speedwagon

Event Reviews

Three of rock’s most iconic 70s brands united recently in Tampa, FL for a night of non-stop, fist-pumping classics. Christopher Long was, of course, there.

Heroic Purgatory

Screen Reviews

A confusing and idiosyncratic movie about a communist cell in 1950’s Japan and where they ended up in 1970.

Phantogram

Phantogram

Event Reviews

Phantogram were stars in Orlando along with Tycho and Heathered Pearls.

Washed Out

Washed Out

Event Reviews

Washed Out wash over Orlando and Jen Cray is swept away on the acid wave.

Monster Hunt

Monster Hunt

Screen Reviews

Gender reversal and icky-cute CGI monsters make this a kid’s film adults will enjoy.

Buckstein

Buckstein

Music Reviews

Country Side (Angry Duck Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Vans Warped Tour 2017

Vans Warped Tour 2017

Event Reviews

The Vans Warped Tour is as much a summertime tradition as vacation flings, sunburns, and losing your bathing suit at the beach for music fans of all ages, Jen Cray among them.

Moon Hooch

Music Reviews

Live At the Cathedral ( Hornblow Recordings). Review by James Mann.

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Music Reviews

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Interviews

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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.