Monthly Archive: February 2017

Movie Breakdown: The Great Wall (Noah)

Pre-Screening Ramble: Matt Damon as a pan-European soldier sidling up to The Great Wall of China to fight monsters with a bow and arrow? Well, I mean, in description it sounds good. Somehow though, I’m...

Movie Breakdown: A Cure For Wellness

Pre-Screening Stance: Gore Verbinski did a pretty great job with The Ring, so I’m all about him getting spooky/scary/suspenseful again via A Cure For Wellness.  With that being said, I can’t say I’ve found the...

Raised Eyebrows: Jazz Freedom (Randy)

Things aren’t great right now for lots of reasons. I think often of a quote from Sun Ra that says, “The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an...

Fujiya & Miyagi

On April 7 the great Fujiya & Miyagi will be releasing their sixth full length.  Technically, it’s a compilation made up of the two EPs the band put out last year and the EP they’re...

Show Of The Week

This week I’m bringing you the SOTW a day early so that I can make sure you head to Barracuda tomorrow night for P.O.S.  I’ve been a big fan of the Minneapolis-based rapper since he...

101X Homegrown Podcast

Here’s the latest 101X Homegrown!  Enjoy. Okkervil River – You Don’t Love Me Yet (Roky Erikson Cover) (NEW) Alex Napping – Living Room Molly Burch – Wrong For You (NEW) Growl –  Suhferring Bayonne –...

Xiu Xiu

Over the weekend I spent a good amount of time with Xiu Xiu’s latest single/video, Get Up.  It’s one of the more interesting-sounding things I’ve come across so far in 2017, and it just kept...

Happy Metal Fun Time (Chuck)

Trying to make sense of what Valentine’s Day means to people makes me understand how gullible human beings can be. We are suckers for a theme, a holiday, a reason to decorate or celebrate. It...

Movie Breakdown: John Wick: Chapter 2 (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: John Wick was a great little action movie: simple, brutal, beautifully choreographed, stretching its little arms just far enough to encapsulate a cool world of assassins and their rules. This is a sequel...

Movie Breakdown: John Wick: Chapter 2

Pre-Screening Stance: I’m so very excited for John Wick: Chapter 2.  Everything about it looks like “more of the same”, and that’s exactly what I want from it.  Here’s to another round of the Boogeyman...