In September of last year, ALARM Press publisher/editor Chris Force spoke about ALARM's origins at Public Works 2, an art show and design series organized by Chicago web-design firm Someoddpilot. Head here to watch the three-part video.
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No CommentsScott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of a different album. Zorch: Demo (3/8/11) Zorch: "Zut Alore!" Morrow: Zorch is a frantic instrumental-rock duo that used its debut EP to present swirling keyboard arpeggios, bari
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No CommentsJess Fink: Chester 5000 (Top Shelf, 6/7/11, $14.95) Adorable, charming, Victorian, romantic, endorsed by Alan Moore — these are not the words that generally are used to describe a pornographic comic book. However, Jess Fink’s silent-movie-style erotic graphic novel is all of those, and it even
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No CommentsTy Segall: Lemons (Goner Records, 7/14/09) Ty Segall: "It #1" Ty Segall is too cool for school. At 17 years old, while still in high school, he and his band, Epsilons, recorded two frenzied electro-garage free-for-alls for Los Angeles’ Retard Disco Records. With their frantic live shows, they ma
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No CommentsTangled (Disney, 2010)Disney’s 50th animated feature lets down its hair with Rapunzel. Does this princess earn her crown? The Story: She does indeed, but it was a long and, umm, “tamgled” voyage to the screen. Uncle Walt had wanted to film the fairy tale. By the time the stars al
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No CommentsMichael Jackson died in June 2009, and with that, the Michael Jackson Memorial Celebration began, an outpouring of grief not matched in magnitude or lengthiness since Lincoln’s corpse toured the American railway system, even more remarkable because Lincoln was popular and well-liked up until h
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No CommentsFor almost 15 years now, Lee Feldman has been one of the best-kept secrets in playfully literate pop music — a smartly played piano and a heartbreakingly pure voice in the Auto-Tuned wilderness. Naturally, there hasn’t been much room for Lee’s music in the marketplace, but even as
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No CommentsLast week I posted a review of the Concert For George Blu-ray, in which I called it the best concert film ever made. Now, there is an opportunity for one lucky reader to win a package containing the two-disc Concert For George Blu-ray, plus the Concert For George two-CD set.To win this great prize
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No CommentsComposing the music for a film is one of the last creative stages of the filmmaking process. If there’s still something in the movie that’s not quite working, rejecting the score and replacing it with another is often a desperate last-minute attempt to see if there’s anything that
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No CommentsOn Tuesday night, the organizers of the Newport Folk Festival held an unprecedented live event in Cambridge, MA to announce the lineup for the 2011 Festival. The announcement was preceded by a fine set from RI’s Brown Bird, and a song from David Wax Museum. Both groups will be performing at th
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