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on tour: Cults
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on November 26, 2018
New York-based duo Cults — one of my favorite bands– released Offering B-Sides & Remixes, a companion release to 2017’s LP Offering that includes three previously unreleased songs and a new remix of “Recovery” by famed producer John Fryer. The band start a U.S. tour in Washington, DC on November 30. Get ready for some dreaminess.
Offering B-Sides & Remixes Tracklisting:
1.) Not Impossible
2.) Hope You Found What You’ve Been Missing
3.) An Echo
4.) Offering (Mike Simonetti Remix)
5.) I Took Your Picture (Etienne de Crecy Remix)
6.) Recovery (John Fryer Remix)
U.S. TOUR DATES:
11/30/18 – DC9 – Washington, DC
12/1/18 – DC9 – Washington, DC
12/2/18 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
12/3/18 – Great Scott – Allston, MA
12/8/18 – Baby’s All Right (Early Show) – Brooklyn, NY
12/8/18 – Baby’s All Right (Late Show) – Brooklyn, NY
12/15/18 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
12/16/18 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
12/17/18 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
12/19/18 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA
12/20/18 – Gundlach Bunschu Winery – Sonoma, CA
12/22/18 – Echo – Los Angeles, CA
12/23/18 – Echo – Los Angeles, CA
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STEELE PICKS: Best Albums of 2017
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on December 31, 2017
I’m not on as many press lists as I used to be, so I do the best I can as the C-list music critic that I am. here’s my list of the best albums of 2017, in modified alphabetical order.
Adna, Closure
Alvvays, Antisocialites
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rest
Chelsea Wolfe, Hiss Spun
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice
Cults, Offering
Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up
Gary Numan, Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
Juana Molina, Halo
Lana Del Rey, Lust for Life
Laura Marling, Semper Femina
The Mountain Goats, Goths
The National, Sleep Well Beast
Real Estate, In Mind
Ride, Weather Diaries
Saint Etienne, Home Counties
Slowdive, Slowdive
Waxahatchee, Out in the Storm
Zola Jesus, Okovi
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Steele Picks: Top 30 Albums of 2013
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on December 2, 2013
–unfortunately I can’t possibly hear every album released. I don’t hear about things. I don’t get access to many until the public does. publicists don’t send me as many albums in advance as I wish.
–here are the the albums this year that moved me, inspired me, made me think.
–they’re in alpha order
The Avett Brothers–The Magpie and the Dandelion [American]
Arctic Monkeys—AM [Domino]
Bleeding Rainbow–Yeah Right [Kanine]
Camera Obscura–Desire Lines [4AD]
Chvrches–Bones of What You Believe [Virgin]
Cults–Static [Columbia]
Foals–Holy Fire [Warner Music]
Gliss–Langsom Dans [Modern Outsider]
Grace & Tony–November [Rock Ridge Music]
Haim–Days are Gone [Columbia/Sony]
How to Destroy Angels–Welcome Oblivion [Columbia]
The Joy Formidable–Wolf’s Law [Atlantic]
The Julie Ruin– Run Fast EP [TJR]
Lorde–Pure Heroine [Lava/Republic]
Lovers–A Friend in the World [Badman Recording Co.]
Luray–The Wilder
Laura Marling–Once I Was an Eagle [Ribbon Music]
MGMT– MGMT [Columbia]
M.I.A.–Matangi [N.E.E.T./Interscope]
Mirror Travel–Mexico [Outsider Records]
My Gold Mask–Leave Me Midnight [Highwheel]
The National–Trouble Will Find Me [4AD]
Orbe Orbe–Invisible Kingdoms
Super Water Sympathy–Hydrogen Child [In Music We Trust]
Perhapst– Revise Your Maps [Jack Viking Music]
Throwing Muses–Purgatory/ Paradise
Frank Turner–Tape Deck Heart [Interscope]
Violeta Vil–Lapidas y Cocoteros [Young Cubs]
Waxahatchee–Cerulean Salt [Don Giovanni]
Chelsea Wolfe–Pain is Beauty [Sargent House]
[all selections by Amy Steele 12/1/2013]
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FILM: September/October films on my radar
Posted by Amy Steele in Film on September 19, 2011
The Rum Diary
starring Johnny Depp
based on novel by Hunter S. Thompson
— an American journalist working in Puerto Rico during the 1950s seeks a balance between island culture and the ex-patriots
The Ides of March
starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney
–idealism. dirty politics. Ryan Gosling.
Moneyball
starring Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill
–story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball team using computer-generated analysis to draft players
Machine Gun Preacher
starring Gerard Butler
–story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese child-soldiers
Margaret
starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Allison Janney
–a woman witnesses a bus accident and the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people’s lives.
50/50
starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan
–comedy about a young man’s battle with cancer
Martha Marcy May Marlene
starring Elizabeth Olson
–a woman flees an abusive cult
The Skin I Live In
starring Antonio Banderas
written and directed by Pedro Almodovar
–a plastic surgeon creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage
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