Archive: 2021

The jazz is always flowing down in New Orleans, but in the early, to mid-’80s there was an extra sense of excitement every Tuesday night when the Dirty Dozen Brass Band took to the stage at the Glass House. The band was at the forefront of mixing traditional jazz with a New Orleans second-line swagger, […]

Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons soldiered on as they kicked off the first of their four-show New Year’s Eve run at Dante’s in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, December 28th.

Rating C+ The thing about Paul Thomas Anderson is that his talent is so great that even his bad movies are, well, pretty good. His technique and craft are such that his worst movie still has plenty worth noting and considering. Inherent Vice was, by most accounts, not a great movie. And yet there was […]

RATING A It’s difficult to make a compelling narrative from terrible people. We tend to want to like our protagonists and watch them succeed. Constructing a story from awful people we want nothing to do with and whom we hope to fail takes a special kind of talent that’s rare to come by. Which is […]

RATING B+ Strictly speaking, no, we did not need another Matrix. That’s arguably been true since 1999 when the first movie came and blew everyone’s minds with its reality-bending story, mind-melting effects, and evolution of the cyberpunk aesthetic that felt perfect for the turn of the century milieu in which it existed. The next two […]

Jerry Garcia must’ve been happy to just play music come fall of 1976. At least that would seem to be the case, judging from the seeming inexhaustible string of ideas he issues forth with his guitar (plus his strong, pliant vocals) during the approximately two and half hours of music on GarciaLive Volume 17. Given […]