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#songoftheday = GARBAGE: “THERE’S NO FUTURE IN OPTIMISM”
by Michael McCarthy Today my favorite band has released a delicious new single. The band, of course, is Garbage and the song is called “There’s No Future In Optimism.” Sonically, the Garbage album it sounds the most like would have to be Bleed Like Me, which is largely considered their rock album since they favored
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EDITORIAL: A FEW WORDS ABOUT BUYING RECORDS TODAY
You know what irritates me as a music fan? There isn’t anywhere around here anymore where you can just go on the day an album is released and know that they will have it. Years ago, you could walk into almost any record store and they would have all of the new releases. They might
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#albumoftheday = Selena Gomez & benny blanco: I Said I Love You First
by Michael McCarthy Selena Gomez released an excellent new album last Friday. It’s billed as Selena Gomez and benny blanco (for some reason he refuses to capitalize his name), blanco being her producer boyfriend. The album is supposed to tell the story of their romance. Previously, the two collaborated on a track called “I Can’t
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#nowwatching REVIEW = BETTER MAN
by Michael McCarthy I recently watched the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man. It’s one of the most unusual biopics I’ve ever seen since Robbie Williams is a CGI monkey in the film. No, really, it’s a documentary about Robbie Williams’ life, but he’s a monkey in the movie. I don’t think they ever refer to
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#songoftheday = VALERIE RENAY: UNDER THE OAK
by Michael McCarthy As even a young child could tell you, songs have the ability to make people feel things. For example, maybe you cry every time you hear “Open Arms” by Journey or “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins. (Truth be told, these songs usually do make me cry.). On the other hand, there
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GARBAGE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM – READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE
INFLUENTIAL ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND GARBAGE ANNOUNCE THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM LET ALL THAT WE IMAGINE BE THE LIGHT OUT MAY 30 LET ALL THAT WE IMAGINE BE THE LIGHT IS THE BAND’S EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM AND ACCORDING TO SHIRLEY MANSON, WAS FORGED OUT OF THE NEED TO FIND AN UPLIFTING THREAD AMIDST THE SWELL
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REVIEW: EL INOCENTE (THE INNOCENT) (Netflix)
by Michael McCarthy I’ve just finished watching a brilliant limited series on Netflix. It’s called The Innocent and it’s an adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel. The surprising thing, for me, is that I’ve watched quite a few series based on his books and usually I hate them. They’re predictable, there aren’t enough plot twists,
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NETFLIX REVIEW ROUND UP: Wrong Side of the Tracks, The Snow Girl, The Recruit
by Michael McCarthy I watched the fourth season of Wrong Side of the Tracks (also known as Entrevias) on Netflix this weekend. It’s an excellent Spanish series about this small suburb where the elderly old guys who’ve lived there all of their lives clash with the drug dealers and other assorted thugs. Definitely a vigilante
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IT’S A DAMN SHAME – AN INTERVIEW WITH RECORD STORE OWNER ADAM O’DONNELL
interview and photos by Michael McCarthy I recently met with Adam O’Donnell, the owner of A Damn Shame Records, located at Mill No. 5 in Lowell, Massachusetts, to do an in person interview. The interview went well, Adam proving to be a terrific and insightful person to interview. There was just one problem. My trusty
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THE SECOND COMING OF ROB FITZ
interview by Michael McCarthy Since one Wednesday in June of 2015, Rob Fitz has been hosting a weekly movie night event called Weirdo Wednesday at The Luna Theater located in Mill No. 5 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Sadly, it was recently announced that the mill is closing at the end of the month. The final edition
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series #review: DEATH’S GAME
by Michael McCarthy I have another amazing Korean series to tell you about. This one is called Death’s Game and it’s exclusively on Prime in the U.S. It’s an 8 episode limited series. And I can promise you that it will blow you away. Without giving too much away, I’ll tell you that it begins
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#review: HAPPINESS
by Michael McCarthy I finished watching the Korean zombie series Happiness today. It’s from 2021 but it only just arrived on Netflix. It wasn’t a very scary zombie series but one of the more realistic ones I’ve seen. I also liked the zombie origin part of the story, which is that it starts as a
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A QUICK WORD ABOUT PRIME’S SUBTITLE HICCUPS
I don’t know why Prime can’t make their subtitles work better. If you watch things with subtitles on Netflix, occasionally someone will say something and a subtitle for it won’t appear. It’s some sort of glitch — when this has happened when I’ve been watching things, if you rewind it and play the part it
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MOVIE REVIEW: THE SUBSTANCE
by Michael McCarthy After watching Project Wolf Hunting yesterday, I decided to watch another movie. And I decided to watch another movie that was supposed to be really strange and genre-bending, The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, a young actress I don’t think I’d ever seen in anything before. Moore plays a woman
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SERIES REVIEW: THE SOUND OF YOUR HEART
by Michael McCarthy I have just finished watching the funniest series I have ever seen. It’s a Korean sitcom called The Sound of Your Heart. It focuses on an approximately 30 year old webtoon artist who lives with his parents and brother. And it’s just full of absolutely hilarious stuff. I could tell you about
I could not agree with this review more!! I just happened to stumble across HUGO when scrolling through my FB…
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This is a great show but im angry there will not be a season 2 you cant do that to…
I just watched it for the first time and I’m really upset when I went on Google and found out…
Do you, and will you ever tour the west coast of the USA ?? I’m in northern Oregon and would…