1976 Archive

  • Carrie is a funny and frightening film.  Brian De Palma, the director, turns Stephen King’s novel, itself a female-dominated Rage (King, 1974), into a semi-satiric teen opera without any of […]

    Carrie

    Carrie is a funny and frightening film.  Brian De Palma, the director, turns Stephen King’s novel, itself a female-dominated Rage (King, 1974), into a semi-satiric teen opera without any of […]

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  • A brave face on a breakup, before and after. His guitar weighs his loneliness.

    Peter Frampton – Lines On My Face

    A brave face on a breakup, before and after. His guitar weighs his loneliness.

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  • Media scarcity is a solved problem. Digital distribution, availability and archiving mean that everything, however ephemeral, has permanence. Everything new is released on DVD. If you can’t find it on […]

    Assault On Precinct 13

    Media scarcity is a solved problem. Digital distribution, availability and archiving mean that everything, however ephemeral, has permanence. Everything new is released on DVD. If you can’t find it on […]

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  • Led Zeppelin is the sound of white conquest. The music bends to make sweet, sweet love even as the sound of it makes war in your bed-head. They’re kind of […]

    Led Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand

    Led Zeppelin is the sound of white conquest. The music bends to make sweet, sweet love even as the sound of it makes war in your bed-head. They’re kind of […]

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  • The Stones are a primeval source of rock & roll. They are what sired them (i.e., venerated blues purists), but they don’t have the prestige of being obscure. In 2005 […]

    The Rolling Stones – Black And Blue

    The Stones are a primeval source of rock & roll. They are what sired them (i.e., venerated blues purists), but they don’t have the prestige of being obscure. In 2005 […]

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  • A perfectly blended, idiosyncratic parceling of Bowie’s love of rock, soul, and theatre. It’s fresh, deft, clean, definitive, and straight-ahead. Station To Station is a blues-funk “Changes.” For sheer vagueness, […]

    David Bowie – Station To Station

    A perfectly blended, idiosyncratic parceling of Bowie’s love of rock, soul, and theatre. It’s fresh, deft, clean, definitive, and straight-ahead. Station To Station is a blues-funk “Changes.” For sheer vagueness, […]

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