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Best known for his emo-ish project Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba is a folkie at heart. At least that’s the impression you get from listening to his new band, Twin Forks, which pairs him with mandolin player Suzie Zeldi...
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As far as comebacks go, Fall Out Boy’s is fairly remarkable. When the Chicago-based group took a break three years ago, it had hit rock bottom. Fans had turned against the guys and were heckling them when they played live. Drum...
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The Waitresses, a terrific new wave band that emerged from the same Akron, Ohio scene that produced DEVO and Tin Huey, put out a couple of great albums before calling it a day. Now, Omnivore Recording is reissuing the band’s f...
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In the new thriller Closed Circuit, Rebecca Hall plays Claudia Simmons-Hall, a “Special Advocate” assigned a particularly sensitive case regarding a terrorist suspect. The actress recently spoke to a roundtable of reporters abo...
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In the new thriller Closed Circuit, Aussie actor Eric Bana plays a sarcastic British lawyer who ends up taking a controversial case requiring him to defend a suspected terrorist. He later learns he was chosen for the case becau...
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In Closed Circuit, the new thriller from director John Crowley (Boy A, Is Anybody There?), Eric Bana and Rachel Hall play lawyers assigned to the case of a suspected terrorist. When they realize the case could implicate the Bri...
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Dan Kinem’s would raid his parents’ huge video collection and when he was a kid growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania. “One year, they got me a tiny terrible TV,” he explains. “But it had a VCR attached to it and every night before ...
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Ami Saraiya & The Outcome sound like a band from another era on their new album, Soundproof Box. Saraiya’s somber, upper-register vocals make her a dead ringer for Billie Holiday and the gypsy-like music has a real cabaret ...
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Nerds everywhere are excited that dynamic duo Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are back together again (along with writer/director Edgar Wright) for the final installment of their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. The World’s End...
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Writer-director David Lowery originally set out to write an action movie when he started the script for his new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. But as his characters started dying off, he realized he would prefer to write about...