Haley Pharo is an up-and-coming pop singer and songwriter with a lot of talent. Her debut album has just come out, and it was produced by the Grammy-winning producer Andrew Dawson, who’s also produced Kanye West, fun. and Beyonce. Pharo herself has…
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Haley Pharo is an up-and-coming pop singer and songwriter with a lot of talent. Her debut album has just come out, and it was produced by the Grammy-winning producer Andrew Dawson, who’s also produced Kanye West, fun. and Beyonce. Pharo herself has…
Can a movie about grand theft be heartwarming? I wouldn’t have thought it, but Jake Schreier’s 2012 film Robot & Frank is. Frank Langella plays Frank, a retired criminal with a knack for figuring out break-ins — who’s also suffering from a…
Haley Pharo’s new music video for “Prisoner” from her self-titled debut is a great little slice of electronic pop music. Her record’s produced by Andrew Dawson, and this song was co-written with King Logan. (Pharo and Logan have also co-written a two…
The new season of Crush on Radio is a little bit different, featuring a one-on-one format — but on this episode, I return to the show to talk about Oh, No! It’s DEVO! The entire episode is about that album, so check it out! Yay!
Edward Ka-Spel‘s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
I’m glad to report that the era of terrible Residents live videos is OVER! I think I’ve talked about it before, but for the longest time, it seemed that we were doomed to not have a good document of a Residents’ live…
This is a piece I did out of loops from Snakefinger‘s “8 1/4”, itself a reworking of themes from Nino Rota‘s score for 8 1/2. The version of “8 1/4” I used was from the Live At The Vic album. Each loop is the…
Sometimes with documentaries, length can be a hinderance. There’s such a thing as too much depth, and they can tip from fascinating to boring. Other documentaries, like From Straight To Bizarre about the other acts on Frank Zappa’s labels in the late…
If you want, you can picture an image of the Pokémon Slowpoke with the words “Hey, The Great Dictator is a great movie!” around him. After all, the movie came out in 1940, and was a critical and commercial success. So you…
FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m friends with one-half of Cassette Fighter. (I’m a well-wisher of the other half… we just haven’t talked a whole lot or anything. It’s not a drama thing or anything. Sorry for being boring!) That said, everything I say is…
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