Announcing Year of the Month 2019!
In the past two years, we have been graced with an abundance of great material…
Year of the Month: Winter Kills
“…inspired by seventies thrillers!” — ad/review copy for Captain America: The Winter Soldier So what…
Year of the Month: Something’s Gone Wrong Again: The Buzzcocks, SINGLES GOING STEADY
Look, I’m not gonna tell you Pete Shelley was sexually frustrated. I don’t and didn’t…
“It’s the Damage That We Do…”: Son of Griff on the Tempered Passion of Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces
In his first two albums, Elvis Costello achieved a sublime reconciliation of opposites by making…
Year of the Month: The Wall
I’ve got wild, staring eyes.And I got a strong urge to fly.But I got Nowhere…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of December 1979
Year Of The Month – Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree is the same man as Paul Westerberg or Falstaff. They’re drunks and losers whose…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of November 1979
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on the Ending of Stalker
“I love your eyes, my dear, their play so passionate and brightening. When a sudden…
Year of the Month: This Ain’t No Disco: Talking Heads, FEAR OF MUSIC
As a deep dive, Talking Heads are a bit of a late-in-life discovery for me.…