
12/02/2022
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What could've been unwatchable without the presence of Harbour is instead a tonally bizarre but enjoyable bonebreaker with just enough genuine Christmas spirit not to come across as a crass cash grab.
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What could've been unwatchable without the presence of Harbour is instead a tonally bizarre but enjoyable bonebreaker with just enough genuine Christmas spirit not to come across as a crass cash grab.
Rian Johnson’s follow-up to Knives Out is an immensely satisfying, briskly-paced murder mystery.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/11/17/losing-daylight-songs-for-autumn/
The staff at Spectrum Culture have curated this playlist to bundle up all of the fall.
The staff at Spectrum Culture have curated this playlist to bundle up all of the fall feelings.
Continue on with us today at the letter K – from KC and the Sunshine Band to Kris Kristofferson. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
May you find serendipity among these random recs!.
Such a finely crafted story with exquisite set pieces, explosive performances and tightly ratcheted tension that it continues to enthrall and reward viewing experiences no matter how many times one might have seen it.
Such a finely crafted story with exquisite set pieces, explosive performances and tightly ratcheted tension that it continues to enthrall and reward viewing experiences no matter how many times one might have seen it.
Continue on with us today at the letter J – from the Jacka to the Junkyard Band. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
When Carlile sings, “I saw your eyes behind your hair,” on “The Joke,” she expresses her desire to see everyone around her. That vision turns into wondrous performances to which everyone, regardless of simplistic categorization, is welcomed.
When Carlile sings, “I saw your eyes behind your hair,” on “The Joke,” she expresses her desire to see everyone around her. That vision turns into wondrous performances to which everyone, regardless of simplistic categorization, is welcomed.
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
Podcast - Spectrum Culture
In this episode, David Harris, Holly Hazelwood and Eric Mellor are joined by special guest, Janet Weiss, to discuss drummers who make or break songs.
Podcast - Spectrum Culture
In this episode, David Harris, Holly Hazelwood and Eric Mellor are joined by special guest, Janet Weiss, to discuss drummers who make or break songs.
Pearl is anticlimactic and in search of a real hook outside of its relationship to its superior predecessor.
Anticlimactic and in search of a real hook outside of its relationship to its superior predecessor.
Waters, who recently turned 79, doubled down on the politics, turning the concert into a multimedia experience that could be both exhilarating and exasperating no matter your ideology.
Waters, who recently turned 79, doubled down on the politics, turning the concert into a multimedia experience that could be both exhilarating and exasperating no matter your ideology.
Watching Yves Tumor expertly and effortlessly guide a sold-out crowd to rapturous abandon, again and again, is a revelation.
Watching Yves Tumor expertly and effortlessly guide a sold-out crowd to rapturous abandon, again and again, is a revelation.
As the Wild Hearts tour drew to a close in Central Park, an adoring New York audience was left feeling loved, seen, safe and eager for the futures of these three generational artists.
As the Wild Hearts tour drew to a close in Central Park, an adoring New York audience was left feeling loved, seen, safe and eager for the futures of these three generational artists.
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
It’s like summer camp, but instead of making lanyards or god’s eyes, you can hang out on a bale of hay and watch a Zambian rapper perform.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/08/10/pickathon-2022/
It’s like summer camp, but instead of making lanyards or god’s eyes, you can hang out on a bale of hay and watch a Zambian rapper perform.
Jordan Peele’s third feature is a genuine crowd-pleaser, a rousing thriller with strong characters and a flying saucer that has a lot on its mind.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/07/21/nope-review/
Jordan Peele’s third feature is a genuine crowd-pleaser, a rousing thriller with strong characters and a flying saucer that has a lot on its mind.
The Seeds of Love relocated the healing process from a therapist’s sitting room to the astral plane.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/07/20/discography-tears-for-fears-the-seeds-of-love/
The Seeds of Love relocated the healing process from a therapist’s sitting room to the astral plane.
It feels more like a show than a concert, in many ways, a seamless production, an immersive experience designed to augment the music.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/07/10/concert-review-kraftwerk-2/
It feels more like a show than a concert, in many ways, a seamless production, an immersive experience designed to augment the music.
Waititi's affinity for goofy characters foisting their awkwardness upon one another makes for a charming twist on the Marvel formula, but in the end not even the gods are powerful enough to survive the steamroller of this cinematic universe.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/07/07/thor-love-and-thunder-review/
Waititi's affinity for goofy characters foisting their awkwardness upon one another makes for a charming twist on the Marvel formula, but in the end not even the gods are powerful enough to survive the steamroller of this cinematic universe.
We hope this list inspires you to watch something tonight that you may have normally skipped out on.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/06/30/the-best-films-of-2022-so-far/
We hope this list inspires you to watch something tonight that you may have normally skipped out on.
The best thing any devotee of Perfume Genius can do is lovingly dissect Ugly Season’s strangeness and beauty in hopes of finding the thread Michael Hadreas will follow next.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/06/21/perfume-genius-ugly-season-review/
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
The big screen version of the popular animated series has low stakes, but ultimately, it’s the clearest distillation of what makes the Belcher family so beloved.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/05/26/the-bobs-burgers-movie-review/
The big screen version of the popular animated series has low stakes, but ultimately, it’s the clearest distillation of what makes the Belcher family so beloved.
Continue on with us today at the letter D – from Lucy Dacus to Bob Dylan. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/05/12/d-is-for-lucy-dacus-favorite-songs-from-artists-filed-under-d/
May you find serendipity among these random recs!
A masterful invocation of the gray areas in which pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion, can commingle in uncomfortable fashion.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/05/09/oeuvre-claire-denis-trouble-every-day/
A masterful invocation of the gray areas in which pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion, can commingle in uncomfortable fashion.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is not a bad film. It is even enjoyable in that batsh*t, Nic Cage-grabbing-a-quick-buck kind of way, if you can accept the fact that only straight white dudes get any shine in the film.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/05/02/revisit-national-treasure-book-of-secrets/
Not a bad film. It is even enjoyable in that batsh*t, Nic Cage-grabbing-a-quick-buck kind of way, if you can accept the fact that only straight white dudes get any shine in the film.
It’s difficult to believe that these tapes have been sitting around for 50 years, waiting this long to be unleashed to the public. But there’s always room for one more live album from Charles Mingus.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/04/27/charles-mingus-the-lost-album-from-ronnie-scotts-review/
It’s difficult to believe that these tapes have been sitting around for 50 years, waiting this long to be unleashed to the public. But there’s always room for one more live album from Charles Mingus.
Taken as discrete pieces, each songs provides its own twisted pleasure, but over the course of the album they congeal into an idiosyncratic expression of jittery anxiety.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/04/19/jack-white-fear-of-the-dawn-review/
Taken as discrete pieces, each songs provides its own twisted pleasure, but over the course of the album they congeal into an idiosyncratic expression of jittery anxiety.
Father John Misty’s conspicuous vanishing act – away from being a big online personality – only highlights his impressive, and remarkably consistent, knack for delivering razor-sharp lyricism atop lush soundscapes.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/04/12/father-john-misty-chloe-and-the-next-20th-century-review/
Father John Misty’s conspicuous vanishing act – away from being a big online personality – only highlights his impressive, and remarkably consistent, knack for delivering razor-sharp lyricism atop lush soundscapes.
Andrea Arnold’s immersive documentary Cow seeks to bridge the yawning disconnect between modern humans and the source of our food. Y
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/04/11/cow/
There are no shots of horrific factory farm conditions; instead, this largely wordless documentary simply provides a poignant cow’s-eye view into the stark daily life on a dairy farm.
Continue on with us today at the letter B – from the B-52s to Buzzcocks. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/03/31/b-is-for-the-b-52s-favorite-songs-from-artists-filed-under-b/
Continue on with us today at the letter B – from the B-52s to Buzzcocks. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
If there is any town engineered for Nation of Language’s brand of synth-pop, it’s Portland, Oregon.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/03/29/concert-review-nation-of-language/
Nation of Language’s music really hits that sweet spot for fans of groups such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the Cure and Depeche Mode; what once was past is now present.
Over the space of 10 hours and 100 songs, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention make a strong case for 1971, despite its disasters and drama, being the pinnacle of their career together.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/03/23/frank-zappa-the-mothers-1971-review/
Over the space of 10 hours and 100 songs, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention make a strong case for 1971, despite its disasters and drama, being the pinnacle of their career together.
Start with us today at the beginning – from Aaliyah to Aztec Camera. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/03/10/a-is-for-aaliyah-favorite-songs-from-artists-filed-under-a/
Start with us today at the beginning – from Aaliyah to Aztec Camera. May you find serendipity among these random recs!
Sure, anyone who hears bootlegs of the old days will hear a looser, more freewheeling band, but the version of the Pixies one hears on Live in Brixton is tight, professional and eager to please.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/03/01/pixies-live-in-brixton-review/
Sure, anyone who hears bootlegs of the old days will hear a looser, more freewheeling band, but the version of the Pixies one hears on Live in Brixton is tight, professional and eager to please.
So why did fail so hard? Many reasons, but especially because Leatherface without his deranged family is as pointless as the skin-wearing killer without power tools.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/02/23/texas-chainsaw-massacre-review/
Where the original film deftly used social commentary as subtext, this crude direct sequel beats the viewer over the head with it.
Yet while her star may have risen most sharply with 2016’s case/lang/veirs supergroup, in many ways Blacklisted sees Neko Case at her sharpest and most fearless.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/02/16/holy-hell-blacklisted-turns-20/
The cinematic quality of Blacklisted, along with the wide range of emotions she sympathetically conveys, have seen her stature grow over subsequent albums.
Joachim Trier’s greatest film yet is a definitive document of adult angst.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/02/06/the-worst-person-in-the-world-review/
Joachim Trier’s greatest film yet is a definitive document of adult angst.
To call Turn on the Bright Lights a masterpiece feels like a far more inflammatory statement now than it did in the early ‘00s.
https://spectrumculture.com/2022/01/26/holy-hell-turn-on-the-bright-lights-turns-20/
Even if Interpol’s career has slowly revealed itself to be disappointing as they struggled to live up to the hype, the album that brought about that hype is nothing short of a masterpiece all these years later.
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