Wild Style dir. Ahearn Oct 20-21 Clinton Street Theater Hiphop started in the South Bronx around 25 years ago– too bad you weren’t there. The closest you’re going to get to it is this weekend at the Clinton Street Theater, when writer/director Charlie Ahearn personally takes you on a tour of his seminal hiphop film, […]
Jacob McMurray
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Enter the Human Tornado
Dolemite Wants Your Women
Rudy Ray MooreFri Oct 5 Cobalt Lounge “From the beginning, niggas been jealous of my shit/Me with my fly bitches and the clothes were just it.” Awwww, yeah. Heading our way with his “all-girl army of kung Fu killers” is the archetypal pimp, Rudy Ray Moore, more famously known as the jive-talkin’, booty-slappin’, comic grandmaster […]
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No Wave, New York, No Plot
Downtown 81 Documents Lives of Surreal NY Hipsters
Downtown 81 dir. Edo Bertoglio Opens Fri Sept 21 Clinton Street Theater “Hey, Jean Michel, how ’bout we make a movie? You’ll star in it and all you have to do is walk around New York, becoming one with the streets, shelling out beat poetry, and philosophizing on urban existence. And all of your friends […]
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Devils or Prophets?
Blöödhag Educates the Masses with Metal
On the last leg of their Brythunian Steel tour, riding high on the success of their hit documentary The Faster You Go Deaf, The More Time You Have To Read –a diary of their tour of the Timberland Library District–Seattle’s Blöödhag arrives like a horde of bloodied, undead warriors emerging from the Hellfire. As masters […]
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Videogames Made the Radio Star
Picking the Best of Current Video Game Soundtracks
Pullout: “We’re Geeks and We Know It” Music Issue