Monday, February 23, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #123 - Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun

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Meat Puppets first burst out of the Arizona desert in the early 80s as one of the key bands on legendary punk label SST.  But while they st...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #110 - Jules and Jim (1962, dir. François Truffaut)

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François Truffaut pulls out all the cinematic stops in his 1962 masterpiece, Jules and Jim : voice over, dolly shots, aerials, pans, wipe...
Monday, February 9, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #122 - Lennie Tristano – Lennie Tristano

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Lennie Tristano is a jazz pianist whose small body of recorded work does not do justice to his influence on the music, which is audible i...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #109 - Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, dir. John Sturges)

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Director John Sturges is noted for a 30-year career of slam-bang action films, usually starring tough (or at least manly) guys in the lea...
Monday, January 26, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #121 - The Dream Syndicate – The Medicine Show

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Looking for a rock and roll hero who has had a career for decades, never “sold out,” never made a shitty record, never been, er… spoiled ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #108 - Wait Until Dark (1967, dir. Terence Young)

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What makes a movie scary is a very subjective thing. For instance, when I first saw The Exorcist , the scene that scared me the most (and...
Monday, January 12, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #120 - Mott the Hoople – Mott

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So the legend goes, Mott the Hoople were about to break up after four albums and not much to show for them. Then, famous fan David Bowie ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #107 - Melancholia (2011, dir. Lars von Trier)

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Claire: “What's going on Justine?” Justine: “I'm trudging through this gray woolly yarn, it’s clinging to my legs, it's rea...
Monday, December 29, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #119 - Marc Ribot – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos

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In 1997, Ry Cooder released Buena Vista Social Club , featuring forgotten Cuban musicians being given a platform to get heard in the Stat...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #106 - The Wiz (or - Lighten up and let yourself be charmed) (1978 dir. Sidney Lumet)

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The year is 1978. American cinema is immersed in Blaxploitation, hard-boiled crime dramas and an un-satiated, seemingly endless lust for ...
Monday, December 15, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #118 - The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues

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Fisherman’s Blues , The Waterboys’ fourth album, came out the year Twist and Shout opened, 1988, and it was my favorite record in my firs...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Twist and Shout Presents: Top Things List 2014

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As at the end of every year, we ask our employees to share their favorite releases of the year. Herein are the results of our end of year ...

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #105 - 2 Days in Paris / 2 Days in New York (2007 / 2012, dir. Julie Delpy)

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Indie film goddess Julie Delpy made 2 Days in Paris and 2 Days in New York because she was tired of seeing romantic comedies that cast ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #117 - Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

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The duo of Jason "Spaceman" Pierce and Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember came together in the mid-80s with a mission of blending...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #104 - Forty Guns (1957, dir. Samuel Fuller)

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Jessica Drummond (played by Barbara Stanwyck) is a hardened but benign rancher who holds sway over a small army of – you guessed it – for...
Monday, November 17, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #116 - Amadou & Mariam - Tje Ni Mousso

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Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are a married pair of musicians from Bamako, Mali who met in the 1970’s at Mali's Institute for th...
Monday, November 10, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #103 - The Red Balloon (1956, dir. Albert Lamorisse)

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Is it possible for a movie to succeed as a child’s tale and simultaneously maintain some real intellectual and emotional impact for an ad...