Spectrum Culture
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Innern Space: Post-black metal Germans continue twirling toward freedom.
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Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Innern - Spectrum Culture
Innern is a bruising and atmospheric post-black metal journey into the inner self thatâs heavy, dense and sometimes moving, but which occasionally loses its direction in undifferentiated riffing that ...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/06/der-weg-einer-freiheit-innern-review/
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Unsecretly Canadian: Sloan's still fighting the good power-pop fight.
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Sloan: Based on the Best Seller - Spectrum Culture
Based on the Best Seller it wonât cause a major splash, but itâs a great listen for anyone even casually familiar with the band, proving that even 14 albums in, Sloan is still capable of delivering qu...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/06/sloan-based-on-the-best-seller-review/
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Scene Report: Laufey lights up Seattle.
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Concert Review: Laufey - Spectrum Culture
At her sold-out Seattle show, Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey brings jazz pop to a new generation, as well as a whole lot of talent and whimsy.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/06/concert-review-laufey/
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Bill Cooper
about 8 hours ago
Are We Good? No, really, are we? Steven Feinartz's latest documentary about comedian and podcaster Marc Maron consists of themes of grief and self-doubt that are universal and wholly relatable. Read more at
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Are We Good? - Spectrum Culture
The comedian and podcaster Marc Maron may be at the heart of Feinartzâs documentary, but its themes are universal and wholly relatable.
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Buckingham/Nicks: The Naked Truth.
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Buckingham Nicks: Buckingham Nicks - Spectrum Culture
While a little raw at points, Buckingham Nicks is more than just a curiosity, even as it serves as the prelude to something bigger.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/06/buckingham-nicks-buckingham-nicks-review/
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"Good Boy" doesn't have what it takes to run with the big dogs of horror.
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Good Boy - Spectrum Culture
Although attractive to the kinds of studio executives overeager to make more money for less, these kinds of films are not really movies â they feel more like art installations.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/05/good-boy-review-2/
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Eoghan Lyng
1 day ago
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Robert Plant With Suzi Dian: Saving Grace - Spectrum Culture
His days as a heavy metal frontman are behind him, but thereâs much bluster and roar to be heard in this somber selection of covers.
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Step aside, let the woman through, let the woman through.
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Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying - Spectrum Culture
Love and its subsequent loss are always fertile ground for art, but on Michelangelo Dying, Cate Le Bon manages to make it sound both mysterious and fresh.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/05/cate-le-bon-michelangelo-dying-review/
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Scene Report: This concert hall is on fire, as James hits PDX.
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Concert Review: James - Spectrum Culture
The veteran band, performing its most popular album, shook things up, reveled in the past and kept surprise alive in an epic two-set concert.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/05/concert-review-james/
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Brian Eno Is Practicing Ambient Music the Right Way
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The Smashing Machine is down for the count.
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The Smashing Machine - Spectrum Culture
Dwayne Johnsonâs first purely dramatic performance has some gravitas, but director Benny Safdie ultimately does not know what to do with the charismatic actor he miscast for his lead role.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/02/the-smashing-machine/
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We have openings for writers to review music, film and/or books. DM for more info.
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Each week we are looking in-depth at an R.E.M. While DEAD LETTER OFFICE isn't an official part of the band's discography, we kinda think it is. Read why below!
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Discography: R.E.M.: Dead Letter Office - Spectrum Culture
This (relatively) early career collection of B-sides, scrapped material and covers steps outside of the bandâs identity to better articulate its inner workings.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/02/discography-r-e-m-dead-letter-office/
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Sigur Rós: Takk⊠is now TWENTY! It is also the group's last masterpiece. Agree?
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Sigur Rós: Takk⊠(20th Anniversary Edition) - Spectrum Culture
Takk... captured the band at their most energized and, perhaps, their most harmonious.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/02/sigur-ros-takk-20th-anniversary-edition-review/
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Darcy you later!: "The Millennial "Pride & Prejudice" at 20.
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Holy Hell! Pride & Prejudice Turns 20 - Spectrum Culture
Over 200 years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice â and two decades after the beloved film adaptation â the Janeites clearly still have enthusiasm to spare and cash to spend.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/01/holy-hell-pride-prejudice-turns-20/
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The Thrilla in Guerilla.
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Guerilla Toss: Youâre Weird Now - Spectrum Culture
Youâre Weird Now is Guerilla Toss firmly in high gear, their usual brand of chaos harnessed to big, up-front production and burred hooks that give the album staying power far beyond the bandâs typical...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/01/guerilla-toss-youre-weird-now-review/
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Scene Report: How attached will Sharon Van Etten remain to the Attachment Theory?
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Concert Review: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory - Spectrum Culture
Sharon Van Etten has undergone a couple of reinventions, but for the first time in her career, her debut tour with the Attachment Theory feels less like a next chapter and more like a new beginning.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/10/01/concert-review-sharon-van-etten-the-attachment-theory/
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Can The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse compete with The Legend of Bagger Vance?
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Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse - Spectrum Culture
With Wildfire, the filmmakers fail to convince us that the sincerity of their production matches the soulfulness of its source material.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/30/wildfire-the-legend-of-the-cherokee-ghost-horse-review/
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Sad Eyes, Black Hearts, Must Lose!
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Black Heart Procession: Hearts & Tanks EP - Spectrum Culture
Black Heart Processionâs Hearts & Tanks EP is now on streaming services, but with no bonus material, one canât help but muster a cynical âwhoop-de-doo.â As most fans have heard these songs before, the...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/30/black-heart-procession-hearts-tanks-ep-review/
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So May We Start? Itâs fair to question how many Sparks tours are left, but as long as the Maels are giving us music we can dance to, weâre going to be there. Just donât make us sit down.
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Concert Review: Sparks - Spectrum Culture
At this point, itâs fair to question how many Sparks tours we will get, but as long as the Maels are giving us music we can dance to, weâre going to be there. Just donât make us sit down.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/30/concert-review-sparks-3/
6 days ago
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Bill Cooper
6 days ago
"Let's go, it's beat time, it's hop time, it's monk time!" Today on
@spectrumculture.bsky.social
, I review the Munster Records reissue of one of the strangest yet essential '60s albums...The Monks' Black Monk Time:
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The Monks: Black Monk Time - Spectrum Culture
Most influential albums arenât as enjoyable six decades later, but the Monksâ Black Monk Time is as engaging as it was back then, akin to an extraterrestrial discovery existing outside â60s nostalgia.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/30/the-monks-black-monk-time-review/
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ICYMI: We talked with JENS LEKMAN on our podcast! Listen below and please help spread the word!!
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Enjoy Your Life Podcast: Episode 103: âA Scented Candleâ (featuring Jens Lekman) - Spectrum Culture
In this episode, David Harris, Holly Hazelwood and Eric Mellor are joined by special guest, Jens Lekman, to talk about playing weddings and music streaming services.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/23/enjoy-your-life-podcast-episode-103-a-scented-candle-featuring-jens-lekman/
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With "Bau: Artist at War" the director of "Reagan" has outdone himself.
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Bau: Artist at War - Spectrum Culture
The lazy portrait McNamara creates of Joseph Bau unwittingly displays the man as obsequious, too willing to use his artistic talents in service of any authoritative figure.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/29/bau-artist-at-war-review/
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Scene Report: BRMC motor away in PDX.
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Concert Review: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spectrum Culture
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club roared into Portland with a fresh take on Howl, now 20 years old.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/29/concert-review-black-rebel-motorcycle-club/
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Hello. Telephone Free Landslide Victory is 40. You're welcome.
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Camper Van Beethoven: Telephone Free Landslide Victory (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - Spectrum Culture
The 20-somethings who revolted against Club Med's âdeath cultureâ have aged into cool uncles, and we finally get a deluxe-style reissue with a remastered version of the original album and a bonus CD f...
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/28/camper-van-beethoven-telephone-free-landslide-victory-40th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-review/
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WE RECOMMEND: Sprints: All That Is Over Sprints completely bury any notion of a sophomore slump by delivering one of the yearâs most exciting and atmospherically rich albums.
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Sprints: All That Is Over - Spectrum Culture
Sprints completely bury any notion of a sophomore slump by delivering one of the yearâs most exciting and atmospherically rich albums.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/28/sprints-all-that-is-over-review/
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Scene Report: Patrick Wolf survives in PDX.
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Concert Review: Patrick Wolf - Spectrum Culture
Rather than just passion, Patrick Wolfâs performance in Portland felt imbued with the awareness that comes with the middle period of life, the appreciation for impermanence.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/28/concert-review-patrick-wolf/
8 days ago
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Alan Zilberman
9 days ago
Fantastic Fest ended last week. Over at
@spectrumculture.bsky.social
, I ranked the ten best I saw there - genre films from all over the world - then spent a little time discussing a movie beyond any normal ideas of sensibility and taste. It was awful.
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Fantastic Fest Recap 2025 - Spectrum Culture
For its 20th anniversary, Fantastic Fest went back to basics, delighting audiences with genre films from around the world, as well as a couple of exciting world premieres.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/28/fantastic-fest-recap-2025/
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We get to Rashomon in our weekly Kurosawa series. Is this his best film?
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Oeuvre: Kurosawa: Rashomon - Spectrum Culture
Even though Rashomon has worked past its initial polarizing reviews to become one of the most celebrated films of all time, we still get to revel in its untrustworthy, delicious tension.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/25/oeuvre-kurosawa-rashomon/
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Scene Report: All Waterboys is classic Waterboys.
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Concert Review: The Waterboys - Spectrum Culture
Mike Scottâs distinctive voice still sounds like it did in the â80s, playing a high energy show that saw him outlast some of the older members of the sold-out crowd.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/25/concert-review-the-waterboys/
11 days ago
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The Malcontent, now Bluer and More Sky-ish
11 days ago
I got the Led out in
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(by which I mean I listened to and wrote about the last good Led Zeppelin album):
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Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (50th Anniversary Edition) - Spectrum Culture
Physical Graffiti still has the air of inevitability that much of Led Zeppelinâs best work does even though its status as the bandâs most artistically varied album feels a little overstated.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/25/led-zeppelin-physical-graffiti-50th-anniversary-edition-review/
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We have openings for writers to review music, film and/or books. DM for more info.
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Surprise! It's one good review after another for this PTA joint.
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One Battle After Another - Spectrum Culture
A powerhouse blockbuster with plenty to say about love, family, radicalism and politics, Paul Thomas Andersonâs latest ranks among his best work.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/25/one-battle-after-another-review/
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Hounds of Love Is Like Jazz
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Colin Hancockâs Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds - Spectrum Culture
Hopefully this album will introduce the idiosyncratic Louisiana sound to a wider audience, but for those already in the know, it will be devoured like a fine oyster or a succulent crawfish étouffée.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/24/colin-hancocks-jazz-hounds-catherine-russell-cat-the-hounds-review/
12 days ago
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Justin Vellucci
12 days ago
A
#StarsoftheLid
LP from 1995 -- made on mushrooms & cheap wine, aged 30 years like a fine
#Bordeaux
-- has been reissued to knock you on yr blissed-out ass. đ§ <<Music for Nitrous Oxide>> đ·đ First time on vinyl. Finally heard in full bloom. For
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Link in comments!
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Tyler Childers makes good on a rescheduled show in VA. And we were there to cover it.
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Concert Review: Tyler Childers - Spectrum Culture
You can come for the fiddle, you can come for the conversation, you can even come for the humor, but you won't leave disappointed. Mostly, though, you come for the music.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/24/concert-review-tyler-childers/
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trev
13 days ago
My first review for Portland's
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is Milo Korbenski's kinky new album 'Sex Angel', out now on
@phantomlimb.bsky.social
. Read:
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Listen:
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Milo Korbenski: Sex Angel - Spectrum Culture
Despite its title, Milo Korbenskiâs second newest album suggests the costume isnât a kink. Itâs protection.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/24/milo-korbenski-sex-angel-review/
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To sleepies, perchance to Dreamies ....
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Dreamies: Auralgraphic Entertainment - Spectrum Culture
Bill Holtâs 1974 album is a seamless, one-of-a-kind marriage of accessible psychedelic folk-pop, experimental electronic music and what would later be called sampling.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/23/dreamies-auralgraphic-entertainment-review/
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Portland finally gets its Grandaddy show.
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Concert Review: Grandaddy/Pedro the Lion - Spectrum Culture
It was a performance that didnât feel like a religious event or an ultra-triumphant soul-bearing and instead felt like a great night with some old friends.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/23/concert-review-grandaddy-pedro-the-lion/
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Derf Backderf
14 days ago
RIP the ravishing and mesmerizing Claudia Cardinale. More than just an Italian sexpot, she was a very fine actress. 8 1/2, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fitzcaraldo, etc.
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A "Megalopolis" documentary looks at the ego and conflict behind the polarizing passion project.
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Megadoc - Spectrum Culture
In filming the production of Megalopolis, documentarian Mike Figgis uncovers a bizarre clash of creativity and ego among Hollywoodâs elite.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/22/megadoc-review/
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Dubquake! A sprawling new comp celebrates a pivotal label's 20th anniversary.
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Various Artists: Tectonic Sound - Spectrum Culture
Tectonic Sound is both a time capsule and a flashing neon arrow pointing towards the future of Tectonic Recordings and dubstep as a whole.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/22/various-artists-tectonic-sound-review/
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Our new PODCAST is up featuring JENS LEKMAN! In this episode we talk about playing weddings and music streaming services. Listen below and PLEASE SHARE!!
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Enjoy Your Life Podcast: Episode 103: âA Scented Candleâ (featuring Jens Lekman) - Spectrum Culture
In this episode, David Harris, Holly Hazelwood and Eric Mellor are joined by special guest, Jens Lekman, to talk about playing weddings and music streaming services.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/23/enjoy-your-life-podcast-episode-103-a-scented-candle-featuring-jens-lekman/
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Big Thief never really goes away. They're back on tour again and we're here to tell you about it.
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Concert Review: Big Thief - Spectrum Culture
On this night, Big Thief emerged as a living, breathing, changeable beast, able to let their guard down and let their garden of songs grow wild.
https://spectrumculture.com/2025/09/22/concert-review-big-thief/
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