Spectrum Culture
@spectrumculture.bsky.social
Film, music and book reviews. Proudly based in Portland, OR! www.spectrumculture.com
Miracle Fusion Women, plastic jazz, wallpaper funk and Tupperware soul: Bargain Bin Babylon takes on Tom Scott's "Intimate Strangers." spectrumculture.com/2026/08/04/b...
Bargain Bin Babylon: Tom Scott: Intimate Strangers - Spectrum Culture
Intimate Strangers uses its studio polish to disguise a surprisingly wounded core, a sense of vulnerability hidden by finesse.
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A documentary about an escaped zoo bird that briefly thrived in urban freedom asks some deep questions. spectrumculture.com/2026/08/04/w...
Wild Inside - Spectrum Culture
The latest documentary from director Penny Lane examines an escaped zoo bird in NYC and looks at the issues surrounding its life and death.
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A new archival release presents a tantalizing jazz duo spectrumculture.com/2026/08/04/m...
Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch: Feebles, Fables & Ferns - Spectrum Culture
Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch’s Feebles, Fables & Ferns treats listeners to a pair of superb musicians highlighting each other’s technical and emotional performance skills.
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Runaway Twain, never comin' back spectrumculture.com/2026/08/04/s...
Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain - Spectrum Culture
Shania Twain sounds like she's having a ball at times on the project, proving that music stems from the singer's determination to flow with the spirit, the soul and effervescent emotions.
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Scriminal Minds spectrumculture.com/2026/08/03/s...
Scrimshire: Bring Our Light to Every Corner - Spectrum Culture
Scrimshire might not be a pure avant-gardist, but he knows how to merge diverse textures to great effect, leaving Bring Our Light to Every Corner as something to be returned to and reevaluated as time...
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A fresh mix for Fresh Fruit. spectrumculture.com/2026/08/03/d...
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables – 2022 Mix - Spectrum Culture
This unnecessary remix of the Dead Kennedys’ mighty debut gives the album a little extra depth at the expense of some of its more characteristic details — but it remains one of the must-have classics ...
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If you were hoping that jaunty beret Travolta augured a twee Barbarino, then THE GENTLEMAN THIEF will come as a disappointment. My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review spectrumculture.com/2026/08/02/t...
The Gentleman Thief - Spectrum Culture
Yesterday’s all-star cast provides today’s crime thriller dregs in this slick, empty and listless VOD product.
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Disclaimer: Warwick Davis does not guest on this album.
WILLOW: The Thread - Spectrum Culture
The Thread stands as a testament to Willow Smith’s fearless artistic transformation, demanding that the internet age slow down and listen closely to the silent frequencies connecting humanity.
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Brand New Day, same old Spider-Man spectrumculture.com/2026/07/30/s...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Spectrum Culture
The latest Spider-Man film’s grounding in New York City adds a layer of realism and allows director Destin Daniel Cretton to play to his strengths as a chronicler of small but significant moments.
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An excellent new gamelan album on Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label. Check it! spectrumculture.com/2026/07/30/d...
Dewa Alit and Gamelan Salukat: Baur Bentur - Spectrum Culture
Even a casual spin of Baur Bentur reveals something rich, strange and fruitful coming into being.
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I had a lot of fun writing about I Want Your Sex, a kinky comedic riff on Sunset Boulevard with cheeky performances - including Charli XCX hilariously cast against type - and a killer synth-pop soundtrack. My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
I Want Your Sex - Spectrum Culture
By drawing from a lot of influences and keeping things light, Gregg Araki’s relatively mainstream sex comedy is a fun call to action for the repressed.
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From the Vaults of Streaming Hell, we bring you: "Backstabbed"! spectrumculture.com/2026/07/29/f...
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Backstabbed - Spectrum Culture
Doug Campbell’s Backstabbed belongs to a contemporary strain of exploitation cinema that extrapolates upon societal taboos so shamelessly as to be strangely audacious; the film is inelegant, but unden...
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I also wrote about Sonic Youth's second "sellout" record, which wasn't really a sellout album in that Sonic Youth was the sort of band that couldn't compromise themselves if they tried.
Spectrum Culture@spectrumculture.bsky.social · 2w agoOur Sonic Youth series continues....
My participation in Strokes Discourse for @spectrumculture.bsky.social is as follows: Reality Awaits is fine, a difficult listen that I may change my mind on in a few years but doesn't really work for me right now.
Spectrum Culture@spectrumculture.bsky.social · 6d agoStrokin' to the east, Strokin' to the west, Strokin' to the album that is far from their best ... spectrumculture.com/2026/07/29/t...
Quicksand in the place where you live ... spectrumculture.com/2026/07/29/q...
Quicksand: Bring on the Psychics - Spectrum Culture
Bring on the Psychics fulfills Schreifels’ stated mission in every way — a sonic return to the salad days, when Quicksand cracked open the hardcore formula to offer wider musical range without comprom...
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Strokin' to the east, Strokin' to the west, Strokin' to the album that is far from their best ... spectrumculture.com/2026/07/29/t...
The Strokes: Reality Awaits - Spectrum Culture
The Strokes’ Reality Awaits may prove to be too obscure and, improbably, thorny for the sort of immediate pleasure that the band used to create so effortlessly.
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Rosebush Pruning sports a great cast, including Elle Fanning and Tracy Letts. It is also terrible, a cheap imitation of Yorgos Lanthimos and Emerald Fennell that unintentionally shows why it's so hard to work in their mode of sexually depraved dark comedy. My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
Rosebush Pruning - Spectrum Culture
Frequent Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Efthimis Filippou depicts another dysfunctional family, but he declines to present them with any depth or recognizably human qualities.
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9/14- PiL 9/15- Patti Smith 9/16- Lido Pimienta 9/18- Nduduzo Makhathini 9/19- Beck You can only choose two to see in concert. Which?
If there's only one horse in the world, then explain Mr. Ed. You can't.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
Sick of It All’s 1991 single “We Stand Alone” was a manifesto. On their first release after their debut album, frontman Lou Koller belted out a mission statement — hate on us all you want for getting big, this is what we stand for, and we haven’t changed and never will.
All of the colors spectrumculture.com/2026/07/28/f...
Fabienne Delsol: Indigo Red - Spectrum Culture
Though Fabienne Delsol’s fifth album is unoriginal by design, it’s a beautifully made confection; perhaps too rich for some, it embodies a vision of psychedelic pop music of the late ‘60s.
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The news of Glen Hansard’s death is very sad. He was very kind to me when I met him once, even taking time to record an impromptu video interview for Tiny Mix Tapes back when I worked there. RIP, man.
We Rediscover the boho/bougie coffeeshop perfection of Suzanne Vega. spectrumculture.com/2026/07/28/r...
Rediscover: Suzanne Vega: Songs in Red and Gray - Spectrum Culture
Suzanne Vega’s sixth album Songs in Red and Gray is a collection of morose but catchy songs that provide a fascinating glimpse into the artist’s mind post-divorce.
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A Dance with Dragons was published on June 12, 2011.
