Much like Yes’ masterwork Close to the Edge , Voyage of the Acolyte begins with the eruption of sound from silence. Waves and blobs o...

On January 29, 2014, my band, Quantum Creep, will be covering Elvis Costello’s first two albums, My Aim is True and This Year’s Model...

Out of all the movies that Paul Newman made, from his debut in The Silver Chalice in 1954 to his final role as narrator of The Meercat...

Quick – what’s the most uplifting album you know with at least three songs about suicide on it? Well, if you didn’t answer Sweet Old W...

I haven’t seen 12 Years A Slave yet. I’m pretty sure that it’s a good film, based on everything I’ve read. But I don’t think it will ...

Sometime in the mid-70’s I was watching TV with my father when we stumbled across a documentary on PBS about a strange and little know...

“I can’t see him. All I can see is the flags.” – Mrs. Emily Collingwood         John Ford is without a doubt, one of the most well-r...

            Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of the unsung greats of reggae. Maybe he’s not as well known these days because he veers further ...

In many ways Angel Heart is two different movies. On the one hand it is homage to the 1940’s noir detective genre. In this one Mickey...

As the owner of a record store I spend a lot of time thinking about genres of music. What is this? Where should we file it? Why? What ...

“Just look like we are a married couple, *spanning time*!” Vincent Gallo’s debut feature length film is a beautiful yet twisted lo...

Stan Getz – best known as America’s tenor sax master of the Bossa Nova – here creates a different kind of Latin fusion that’s light on...

The best thing about the 1995 version of Persuasion is the ending, the last two shots. Together they last barely a second, but they form ...

In 1986 when The Good Earth came out, the smoldering wreckage of disco, new wave and punk lay on the sonic shoreline like so much tsu...

In general I have avoided too much Jerry-ana. I loved Jerry's singing and playing, and found him an endlessly compelling thinker and...

In the opening scene of this film, set at a hospital in the University of Zurich, two policemen are lead by employees of the hospital ...