British five-piece Paradise Lost had already helped pioneer death-doom by the time they put out their second album, 1991’s Gothic, and laid groundwork for subsequent generations of bands that combined metal’s harshness with dark, romantic textures. They’ve since gone through nearly as many drummers as Spinal Tap, but the rest of the lineup—vocalist Nick Holmes, […]
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What Donald Trump has in common with Hitler, according to a child of the Holocaust
“Trump will burn himself out. Even Hitler knew to come on slowly,” Adina P. Sella says.
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Vivial offers cold comfort to those who miss Spencer’s Jolly Posh
Aimee Levitt reviews Vivial in Lakeview.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 1/29: Admission: One Shilling, Queer Comedy, and Soundgarden
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, January 29, 2013.
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“Game Keepers Without Game” and “Everything I Tell You Now Is True”
British filmmaker Emily Wardill screens her debut feature, the adoption reunion gone wrong “Game Keepers Without Game,” Friday 4/9, and a collection of her shorts, “Everything I Tell You Now Is True,” Thursday 4/8.
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Occasional Pieces at the Nightingale
British filmmaker Stephen Connolly investigates spaces and their meanings in “Occasional Pieces,” a selection of his short works screening Saturday 11/7 at the Nightingale.
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Alasdair Roberts, MV & EE Medicine Show
On the new No Earthly Man (Drag City), Glaswegian singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts completes a years-long metamorphosis: British Isles folk has rippled through his work ever since he formed the group Appendix Out in the mid-90s, but now he’s wholly submerged in the role of Brit-folk archaeologist, historian, and synthesist. None of the new […]
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As a teenager Duncan Roy escaped the London working class by passing himself off as a British noble and infiltrating the high society of Paris and New York; he got away with it for five years before he was busted for fraud. Now a veteran playwright and stage director, Roy makes his feature film debut […]
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Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts declared his love for British folk music in 2001 with The Crook of My Arm (Secretly Canadian), an acoustic solo album of songs he learned from the likes of Shirley Collins, Dick Gaughan, and Anne Briggs. At the time it seemed like a tangential ramble off the path his folk-rock band Appendix Out […]