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Eccentric Boogie (LP)

Various Artists
Numero Group’s latest collection of endlessly groovy synth epics from the 80s. “The only Boogie record you’ll ever need to own” is a celebration of a glorious time when artists from Funk, Disco, and R&B all chose to embrace the seemingly unlimited possibilities of the almighty synthesizer. Read more

Dream Scenario (BLU)

Imagine a world in which Nic Cage popped up in your dreams on a nightly basis… if only we could exist in such an absurd utopia. Read more

Little Nicky (BLU)

This is by far my favorite Adam Sandler movie and a guaranteed good time. Also might be responsible for me liking Popeye's chicken so much. Read more

After Hours (BLU)

Finally released on Blu-Ray. Martin Scorsese directing an all night New York odyssey by way of Joe Frank and Kafka with all of your favorite actors? This one doesn't need a description. Read more

Shredder Orpheus (BLU)

This is a fun one. It's shot gritty on the streets of Seattle without permits and the title translates the plot of the movie. A retelling of the Orpheus myth mixed with skateboard shredding and the aesthetic peppering of Sally Cruikshank/Forbidden Zone/Pee Wees Playhouse. Watch it with friends. Read more

Odds Against Tomorrow (BLU)

Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Shelly Winters AND Gloria Grahame star is this hate tinged, ill fated, and literally explosive noir directed by the always capable and underrated genre director Robert Wise. Also Modern Jazz Quartet does the score. If that doesn't sell the thing I don't know what will. Read more

Space-time Dreamtime (LP)

Lori Vambe
This is so great. Got my vote for best reissue of 2023. It's a private press from the early 80's of Zimbabwean/British genius Zoning in out and around on a homemade instrument. Subtle and deep, exciting sweet, raw and inspired. Just great. Read more

A Lament For Epirus 1926-1928 (LP)

Alexis Zoumbas
I been loving this collection of 20s Greek music. Beautiful folk drones that reach places Free Jazz would stumble upon 50 40 years later. Read more

Death Party (LP)

Gun Club
This gets reissued every now and again but we're due for another. Slipped by me for the first many years of my Gun Club fandom but it's damn near as good as anything they got Read more

Skylarking (CD)

Horace Andy
Does everyone else already know about this one? I'm obsessed. A good contestant for the best reggae album i know in fact! Looping and looping in my car Read more

Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China (LP)

Hani from Yunnan China
This is some of the wildest music I ever heard in my life. Sounds like nothing else. Played in a group with the simplest of reeds and pipes and grasses... just unbelievable. Unbelievably avant garde unbelievably beautiful Read more

Khalik Hena (LP)

Warda Al-Jazairia
We got all kindsa problems in this world, all kindsa unprecedented and terrifying problems, but to live in the re-issue renaissance, the golden archive era, has some really incredible benefits. Like this LP originally recorded in 1973. I feel legitimately grateful I ever got to hear it. Read more

Free Repetition (CD)

Scalpy
This is my piping hot brand new album. Is this kosher? I dig it, i'm proud of it, i think it's fresh and interesting. Perhaps you'll dig it as well. Read more

A Ghost Waits (BLU)

An immensely likable flick about a likable guy falling in love with a likable ghost, it's easy to see why this received almost unanimous praise from critics. A Ghost Waits begins as a horror-comedy, incorporates an effective romantic angle, and concludes on a sincere, poignant note. That ending might have proven fatal in the hands of lesser artists. It was a bold move, and they pulled it off. Shot in B&W on a shoestring budget, the film possesses so much heart, from a DIY-filmmaking perspective and a basic human one. Funny, entertaining, unexpectedly touching stuff. I want to hug this movie. Read more

The Scarlet Letter (BLU)

No one asked for it, no one wanted it, but Kino-Lorber released Roland Joffe's 90's adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Personally, I'm grateful. Hilariously wrongheaded in every way, it offers up more laughs than your average comedy - many of them thanks to Robert Duvall, looking, sounding, and behaving exactly like Lord Farquaad. I like when Demi gives birth to a baby that's, like, at least ten months old. A "so-bad-it's-good" gem. Read more

Wild Beasts (BLU)

Absolutely insane Italian movie (from one of the guys behind Mondo Cane) about a bunch of zoo animals going on citywide rampage after drinking water laced with PCP. Just as nutty as it sounds, an exploitation flick with a beautifully bonkers premise that delivers everything it promises. Polar bears attacking children in a gymnasium, a chase between a cheetah and a Volkswagen, tigers on the subway, elephants on an airplane runway - it's a total trip, and the film teaches valuable life lessons. For example, you do not want to be trapped in a car surrounded by drugged-out elephants. Avoid that as best you can. Read more

Greener Grass (BLU)

Absurdist black comedy, one of the oddest and most otherworldly films I've watched in a while, is a twisted dissection of suburban ennui that feels kinda like Lisa Frank's Eraserhead. Upper class American life viewed as a candy-coated, dread-soaked bizarro world. Weird doesn't even begin to describe it. There's a lot of funny stuff in here. The flick has a strong look, mixes the mundane and the menacing to great effect. Greener Grass is a bright, colorful movie with an undercurrent of doom, like death is lurking on the edge of every frame. An erratic ride but one worth taking, as unsettling as it is amusing. Read more

City of Fear (LP)

FM
Hard to find, but worth tracking down for one song - "Lost and Found". That song... is a beast. Copies float through the store fairly often, and it's usually very cheap. Read more

Blue Steel (BLU)

Slick, engrossing thriller often straddles the line of plausibility but it's so well done in every respect - especially on a technical level - that it doesn't matter much. Kathryn Bigelow (working off a script she wrote with Eric Red) directed the shit out of this urban nightmare tale about a rookie cop crossing paths with a crazed, trigger happy commodities trader working on Wall Street. Jamie Lee Curtis is fantastic in the lead role and Ron Silver goes 100% bananas as the villain. It's very fun watching him lose his mind. He's a great antagonist. The bloody climax finds Silver stalking Curtis through the streets in broad daylight like pistol-packing Michael Myers. If this weren't so silly in places, it would be damn near brilliant. As it stands, Blue Steel is a highly enjoyable piece of stylish pulp, mainly worth seeing for the aesthetics and Silver's frantic, bug-eyed performance. Brad Fiedel's electronic score is great (GREAT). Read more

Ulaan (CD)

Enji
Mongolian jazz singer whose mellow and full vocals perfectly complement the sparse instrumentation of clarinet and bass throughout the release. Just beautiful! Read more