Essential Film Noir
The birth of American crime cinema in the postwar years—stories of ordinary people caught in moral tangles with no way out. Poverty-row des…
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Silent Horror
Before horror had a voice it had shadows, and it turned out shadows were enough. These are the films that invented the vocabulary — the lea…
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Atomic Age Drive-In
The fever dreams of the 1950s and early 1960s—when America looked at the atom and imagined monsters. Drive-in horror and sci-fi from the er…
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Saturday Serials
Twelve or fifteen chapters, one a week, each ending with the hero in a situation nobody could survive — and each next week beginning with t…
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Bach at the Keyboard
Start with one composer and two instruments. Kimiko Ishizaka’s piano recordings place the Goldberg Variations beside Book 1 of the Well-Tem…
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Netlabel Sampler Starter Kit
A compilation is a useful first stop when the artist names are unfamiliar. Monotonik’s first and third compilations gather stretches of its…
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Winterland with the Dead
Four Grateful Dead concerts, one San Francisco venue, from June 1975 through New Year’s Eve 1978. The 1975 program includes the Help on the…
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