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The new Swans album employs a pop sensibility to its dark underground sound.
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Theatre Review (Buffalo, NY): ‘The Anastasia Trials in The Court of Women’ by Carolyn Gage
The Brazen Faced Varlets, a Buffalo, NY based feminist thespian group puts Anastasia and inequality towards women on trial.
Read More »Music Review: Various Artists – ‘Punk Goes Christmas’
Holiday punk CD offers grab bag of Christmas candy from the likes of New Found Glory and Man Overboard.
Read More »Music Review: Al Kryszak – ‘Lullabies for People Who Don’t Need Sleep’
Buffalo, NY-based Al Kryszak releases his first solo acoustic alt-rock album.
Read More »Book Review: ‘A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir’ by John Grant
One man's film noir is another man's detective story, or police procedural, or gangster film.
Read More »Music Review: Tony Joe White – ‘Hoodoo’
Tony Joe White has been writing, touring, producing, and playing music since "Polk Salad Annie" exploded on the charts in 1969, and he has a brand new album out of original songs.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Roger Waters The Man Behind The Wall’ by Dave Thompson
'Rolling Stone' writer Dave Thompson's book tears down the wall that was built by Roger Waters.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Blackfish’
SeaWorld's tragic trainer deaths were vicious, intentional, says documentary, "Blackfish".
Read More »Music Review: Sly and The Family Stone – ‘Higher!’ [Four-CD Box Set]
The pioneering group still wants to take you "Higher!" in this four-CD boxed set celebrating the history of the band.
Read More »Movie Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’
A disturbing, engaging, and finally dispassionate study of a woman buckling under the weight of social pressures.
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