Spinning Discs: Great Escapes
I begin what I hope will be a weekly trot through new, current, and archival Blu-ray and DVD releases with a fifty-year-old favorite, The Great Escape , which has made it to BD.
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I begin what I hope will be a weekly trot through new, current, and archival Blu-ray and DVD releases with a fifty-year-old favorite, The Great Escape , which has made it to BD.
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For all lovers of adventure films, Ray Harryhausen is one of the most magically charged names in the whole of cinema.
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Ray Harryhausen , a hugely influential animator and visual effects trailblazer, has passed away at the age of 93, his family announced today.
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"Film licenses have traditionally been disappointing affairs, so much so that the term itself is now often used as a euphemism for poor-quality software."
Read MoreThe cutesy indie pop sunshine emanating from The Dawn Sang Along could fit into commercials quite easily.
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Argonauts highly anticipated self titled debut album is released by Criminal Records on 19th November.
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All the way back in 2005, The Little Ones stormed into the early music blog scene with "Lovers Who Uncover" , a song that boiled over on falsetto chorus that bemoaned everything with a sighing, "oh no". The bridge invoked a different faded glamor, "way back when we were the latest around," before the lead guitar line and a series of fist-punching "hey's" papered over this richly modern anxiety.
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Argonauts is undoubtably the next big thing in my eyes.
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The best days shooting Ive had in a long time. and told Fermoy: Well go out again on Thursday.
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While Coke Bust/Masakari/Sick Fix/Grudges was tearing down Acheron on 11/19 , a much larger show was brewing at Terminal 5 featuring Mastodon , Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang as part of the trio's tour together.
Read MoreI caught the Mastodon/Dillinger Escape Plan/Red Fang tour when it stopped here in New York this past Saturday night, and, yeah the show all-around killed.
Read MoreOn Saturday afternoon, ABC No Rio hosted the first-ever NYC show ever by Argonauts, the new band featuring vocalist Dimitri Minakakis (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan), guitarist John Adubato (Burnt by the Sun), bassist Brett Bamberger (East of the Wall, The Binary Code's old touring line-up), and drummer Dave Witte (seriously if you don't know who Dave Witte is stop reading this right now and go do some homework).
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DIY mainstay ABC No Rio erupted on Saturday afternoon (10/8) when Thou played a cover of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (video below), though by the time they launched into said cover the packed and sold out room was already knee deep in great riffs.
Read MoreIt seems like there's a new supergroup announced every week now, but few such projects get us excited the way news of Argonauts did.
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