Teaching Mrs. Tingle Directed By Kevin Williamson Dimension By: Eric Greenwood Kevin Williamson has ridden his Scream wave as far as it’ll go because after audiences get a load of Teaching Mrs. Tingle they’ll definitely be wary of another film “by the creator of Scream.” Teaching Mrs. Tingle is pretty atrocious despite the quality casting. […]

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Tom Waits Mule Variations Anti/Epitaph By: Eric Greenwood In his three decades of making music Tom Waits has morphed from lonely crooner to suspicious barfly to sideshow freak and back again. His voice has just as many personalities, but it always sounds like he’s gargling gravel. It’s a strange anomaly- the worse shape his voice […]

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To Rococo Rot The Amateur View Mute/fusion Iii By: Jason Anderson This impeccably stylish album is the third by this trio of visual artists from Dusseldorf and Berlin. It’s also their first for Mute, who’ve cornered the market on German mergers of avant-rock and electronica by also signing TRR sister acts Kreidler, Tarwater and Schneider […]

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Trans Am Future World Thrill Jockey By: Eric Greenwood Trans Am’s fourth album delves even further into the world of Numan-esque keyboards and Kraftwerkian vocoders to create the ultimate amalgam of Atari meets cold new wave steel. The rhythm section drives the record for the first half with abrupt staccato beats and robotic riffs. The […]

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Unwound A Single History: 1991-1997 Kill Rock Stars By: Eric Greenwood Unwound’s growth since its demo is unparalleled in the punk rock community, which is a genre the band only loosely belongs to because it has so much more to offer. Too abrasive for the emo kids and too much singing for the hardcore crowd, […]

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Westbam We’ll Never Stop Living This Way Mute By: Eric Greenwood Mute was bound to hit a dud after releasing so many ace records in a row, and Westbam is it. Germans are much better at experimentalism than they are at techno as evidenced by this pile of utter tripe. Westbam is the German equivalent […]

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XTC Apple Venus Volume 1 TVT By: Eric Greenwood Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding return from a seven-year hiatus in fine form with Apple Venus Volume 1 (Volume 2 will be released later in the year and is expected to be pure pop music). After severing ties with its long time label, Virgin, XTC is […]

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