Dinosaur Jr. Get Back to Basics on the Stellar Sweep It into Space
April 22, 2021 | 11:30am ET The Lowdown: With the benefit of hindsight, it’s funny now to think that any hopes for a reconciliation...
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The Lowdown: Danish rock experimentalists Iceage will return with their fifth album Seek Shelter on May 7, just a few days past the three-year...
April 28, 2021
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse Misfires at Every Trite Turn
April 28, 2021 | 2:15pm ET The Pitch: Here lie the life and tragic times of John Clark, aka John Kelly, aka Tom Clancy’s...
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April 22, 2021
Mortal Kombat Is a High-Gloss Gore Fest That Repeatedly Delivers
April 22, 2021 | 7:35pm ET The Pitch: Hi, kids. Do you like violence? Get over here and check this out. Mortal Kombat is...
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Sasquatch Finds Scarier Things in the Woods Than Bigfoot
April 20, 2021 | 11:10am ET The Pitch: In the fall of 1993, investigative journalist David Holthouse heard the tallest of tall tales while working...
Mare of Easttown Shows the Emotional Labor of Caregiving
April 18, 2021 | 6:20pm ET The Pitch: Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet) is a local hero in the titular small Pennsylvania town. Twenty-five years...
The Offspring Scrape Off the Rust and Return to Action on Let the Bad Times Roll
April 14, 2021 | 1:16pm ET The Lowdown: Spawned by the SoCal punk scene, The Offspring cranked out nine long players from 1989 to...
Artist of the Month Serpentwithfeet’s DEACON Is a Bountiful Collage of Love and Care | Review
The Lowdown: Serpentwithfeet first gained attention in 2016 with his EP blisters, and then more broadly in 2018, when his debut album, soil ,...
Evanescence Boldly Confront The Bitter Truth | Review
The Lowdown: Back in 2003, Evanescence emerged with their major label debut, Fallen, an approachable mix of alternative metal overlaid with the haunting vocal...
slowthai’s TYRON Resonates with Tales of Broken Dreams and Anthems of Mad Energy | Review
The Lowdown: slowthai is the type of guy that sends his fans U Mad Bro? troll faces but turns around and tweets promises of...
19 Problems With Michael Bay’s Pandemic Thriller Songbird | Review
The Pitch: It should be noted, before sharing the plot of Songbird, that Pfizer, Moderna, and a growing number of other medical companies are...
Miley Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts Lovingly Mashes Up Rawk Influences | Review
The Lowdown: For her post-divorce album, Plastic Hearts, Miley Cyrus deploys big synth energy in full ’80s-rawk drag. Over six uneven albums, Cyrus has...
The Christmas Chronicles 2 Completely Wastes the Magic of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn | Review
The Pitch: It’s been a couple of years since Kate (Darby Camp) and Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped save Christmas, with the help of a bedraggled...