CD Review: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell – Love Has Come For You
The stories of broken hearts and abandoned children are at the heart of Love Has Come For You. Review by David Feltman Comedians, by nature, can be hard to take serious, but funny man Steve Martin has proved to be a bit of a Renaissance man. Aside from ...
CD Review: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons to Die
Ghostface Killah may have just created the script for the first Quentin Tarantino musical. Review by David Feltman While fellow Wu-Tang clansman the RZA has been pursuing filmmaking aspirations with the kung fu flick “The Man with the Iron Fists,” Ghos ...
CD Review: The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Like a haunted carousel or a broken music box, every inch of song is rich in warbling, pulsing, clanking, scraping sound. Review by David Feltman As one might guess from the title of The Flaming Lips’ newest album, The Terror has none of the bubbly, ko ...
CD Review: Warbeast – Destroy
The Texas thrashonistas double down with gleefully cheesy Godzilla-inspired artwork and classically hyperbolic lyrics. Review by David Feltman Thrash had all but passed from metal consciousness. Nu-metal came and went (thankfully) and metalcore claimed ...
Film Review: “Evil Dead”
“Evil Dead” transcends its callow gore fest roots and becomes a captivating meditation on drug abuse. Review by David Feltman “You have to get me out of here.” The “Evil Dead” remake is 0% groovy. There are no kings to be hailed or babies distributing ...
Film Review: “Scarred but Smarter: life n times of drivin n cryin”
“Scarred but Smarter” offers a perfect guide to budding musicians on how to pick your battles. Review by David Feltman “I don’t want to do this if it’s not fun anymore.” I wish there was a ‘making of’ documentary for “Scarred but Smarter,” the story o ...
Film Review: “The ABCs of Death”
“The ABCs of Death” is for gore hounds that can appreciate a whopping WTF factor. Review by David Feltman “Let us pass beyond the boundaries of good taste and become one together.” “The ABCs of Death” is an ambitious project. The film is an independen ...
CD Review: Suicidal Tendencies: 13
This is the same band you’ve always loved, even if Cyco Mike has to watch his sugar intake now. Review by David Feltman Many bands have come and gone in the last 30 years and Suicidal Tendencies has itself come and gone at least three times in that spa ...
Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful”
“Oz the Great and Powerful” is dotted with Sam Raimi's special brand of slapstick violence, whip pans and zip zooms. “You’re not the wizard I was expecting.” Review by David Feltman Early in “Oz the Great and Powerful,” James Franco as the titular huc ...
CD Review: Dave Grohl & Friends – Sound City: Real to Reel
This is not so much a soundtrack as a celebration of musical history. Review by David Feltman Music critics rarely put forth the effort to review movie soundtracks, but Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary is so musically enamored and its soundtrack so ...