Antarctigo Vespucci’s latest album delights
By Brendan Nagle Power pop ace Chris Farren (formerly of Fake Problems) and DIY icon Jeff Rosenstock are perhaps as best-suited a pair as there is in …
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The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Adore,” two decades later
By Brendan Nagle To listen back to The Smashing Pumpkins’ bizarre fourth album “Adore” is to hear a band at a crossroads. Prior to its release 20 …
Fall movie previews
By Brendan Nagle & Ray Freedman “Roma” Streaming Dec. 14 Prolific filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is back with a deeply personal film which follows a middle-class family and …
Kacey Musgraves shines on new album “Golden Hour”
By Brendan Nagle When I hear the phrase “golden hour” my first thought is of Terrence Malick’s 1978 masterpiece, “Days of Heaven.” The film’s infamously troubled production …
Two paws way up for Sidney Gish’s new indie record “No Dogs Allowed”
By Brendan Nagle Like a guitar-wielding lovechild of The Blow and Regina Spektor, 20-year-old Sidney Gish crafts catchy lo-fi songs with wry, self-deprecating lyrics. Sound familiar? If …
Looking back at John Carpenter’s “They Live”
By Brendan Nagle Like so much of director John Carpenter’s work since 1978’s “Halloween,” “They Live” performed meagerly at the box office. Yet it has managed to …
Superchunk returns with a thoughtful political album
By Brendan Nagle As far as consistency goes, not many ’90s bands can rival Superchunk. Most of their contemporaries called it quits years ago, and of the ones …
Greta Gerwig soars with directorial debut “Lady Bird”
By Brendan Nagle Christine McPherson is brimming with contradiction. As a senior at an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento, California, Christine (Saoirse Ronan) is a youthful whirlwind …
“Thor” and “Orient Express” toy with formulas
By Brendan Nagle Thor: Ragnarok Seventeen films in, it’s easy to feel exhausted by the machine that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The past half-decade has seen …
“The Snowman” and “Geostorm” can’t weather the box office
By Brendan Nagle The Florida Project “The Florida Project” focuses on the residents of a place called the Magic Castle — but the fantastical name and vibrant …
Varda, Stiller and more return to the big screen
By Brendan Nagle Faces Places Agnés Varda describes herself as “a little old lady, pleasantly plump”; she is all of those things, but she is also much, …