Palme d’Or nominated film Loving, is a historical drama that follows the struggle of an interracial couple in Civil Rights era Virginia. ... More

Loving

Film by Jeff Nichols

Loving

Film by Jeff Nichols

Palme d’Or nominated film Loving, is a historical drama that follows the struggle of an interracial couple in Civil Rights era Virginia. The film, directed and written by Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter, and Midnight Special), staring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, is based on the landmark case Loving v. Virginia in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all interracial marriage bans in the United States. (Focus Features)

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Big Smoke today released their highly anticipated debut album Time Is Golden. The album, which was completed after singer and songwriter Adrian ... More

Time is Golden

Album by Big Smoke

Time is Golden

Album by Big Smoke

Big Smoke today released their highly anticipated debut album Time Is Golden. The album, which was completed after singer and songwriter Adrian Slattery passed away, is an astounding and virtuosic document of a songwriter and a band at the height of their respective powers.

“Given my terminal diagnosis, I have a profound sense of urgency and gravitas about what I want to achieve in my career and the completion and release of the Big Smoke album is paramount to this,” Adrian said during the recording process. Adrian died in May this year, recording his final guitar line just two weeks before. (Barely​ Dressed​ Records)

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Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the ... More

Gimme Danger

Film by Jim Jarmusch

Gimme Danger

Film by Jim Jarmusch

Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock in the decades that followed. Jim Jarmusch’s new film GIMME DANGER chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands of all time. GIMME DANGER presents the context of the Stooges emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relates their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy. (Magnolia Pictures / Amazon Studios)

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Copenhagen’s Marching Church, the onetime solo project and now bona fide big band formed by Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (best known as the ... More

Telling It Like It Is

Album by Marching Church

Telling It Like It Is

Album by Marching Church

 

Copenhagen’s Marching Church, the onetime solo project and now bona fide big band formed by Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (best known as the lead singer of Iceage), will release sophomore album, Telling It Like It Is, on October 28th via Sacred Bones Records.

“With an ensemble large and sophisticated enough to both realize Rønnenfelt’s dark and sultry visions and add its own nuances to them, Marching Church has made the definitive record of its scene and era.” — NPR Music’s “Songs We Love”

“We have here one world united under the sparks of one enormous disco ball hanging over us like the moon,” Rønnenfelt says. “In one fleeting moment in the light of its mirrored surface we see human endurance, in the next we see doom.” The light and shade he finds in this worldview permeate the songs on Telling It Like It Is, an album that taps into a debauched lunacy that teeters on the verge of exhaustion and a charged sensuality. (Sacred Bones)

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Warhol’s Factory as seen through the lens of a young Shore, providing an insider view of this extraordinary moment and place Stephen ... More

Factory: Andy Warhol

Book by Stephen Shore

Factory: Andy Warhol

Book by Stephen Shore 

Warhol’s Factory as seen through the lens of a young Shore, providing an insider view of this extraordinary moment and place

Stephen Shore was 17 years old when he began hanging out at The Factory – Andy Warhol’s legendary studio in Manhattan. Between 1965 and 1967, Shore spent nearly every day there, taking pictures of its diverse cast of characters, from musicians to actors, artists to writers, and including Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed, and Nico – not to mention Warhol himself. This book presents a personal selection of photographs from Shore’s collection, providing an insider’s view of this extraordinary moment and place, as seen through the eyes of one of photography’s most beloved practitioners. (PHAIDON)

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A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as ... More

Moonlight

Film by Barry Jenkins

Moonlight

Film by Barry Jenkins

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are. (A24)

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Norwegian artist and writer Jenny Hval, known for her fascinating voice, singular delivery and markedly non-traditional arrangements which incorporate elements of poetry, ... More

Blood Bitch

Album by Jenny Hval

Blood Bitch

Album by Jenny Hval

Norwegian artist and writer Jenny Hval, known for her fascinating voice, singular delivery and markedly non-traditional arrangements which incorporate elements of poetry, prose writing, performance art, and film, releases her new album Blood Bitch co-produced by acumen noise producer Lasse Marhaug. Her new effort is in many respects a complete 180° from her last in subject matter, execution and production. It is her most focused, but the lens is filtered through a gaze which the viewer least expects. The New York Times defines her writing as “taking a scalpel to the subjects of gender politics and sexuality.” (Sacred Bones)

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Adapted from Maile Meloy’s short-story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Certain Women is a meditation on three ... More

Certain Women

Film by Kelly Reichardt

Certain Women

Film by Kelly Reichardt

Adapted from Maile Meloy’s short-story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Certain Women is a meditation on three Montana women as they navigate their own very disparate struggles of loneliness, want and redemption. Director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Night Moves) draws drama from the seemingly interstitial and inconsequential, following each story at glacial speed in order to properly observe the lives of her subjects at every turn. The dazzling Michelle Williams joins Reichardt for the third time (previously in Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy), while Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and some impressive newcomers, including Lily Gladstone, fill out a hypnotic collective performance. (IFC Films)

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Elliott Smith’s tragically brief life has held an outsized musical and cultural influence. For evidence, one only needs to visit the mural ... More

Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith

Album by Various Artists

Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith

Album by Various Artists

Elliott Smith’s tragically brief life has held an outsized musical and cultural influence. For evidence, one only needs to visit the mural in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, that appears on the album cover for Smith’s Figure 8, where admirers still leave heartfelt messages of gratitude, love and sorrow. It is in honor of this legacy that a handful of today’s foremost songwriters—each of whom bears the influence of Smith’s career—have assembled Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith. Hearing Smith’s songs in new hands serves to reinforce their universality and the fundamental strength of the songwriting. In a welcome surprise, some of Smith’s most openly “sad” songs receive an unexpectedly upbeat treatment—Juliana Hatfield’s cover of “Needle in the Hay,” for instance—which allows this album to become more than just mournful, and instead feel like something of a celebration, as Smith’s career deserves. (American Laundromat Records)

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