From synth-pop mimicry to thrash-industrial chaos, Ministry’s four-decade evolution is less a career arc and more a chemical reaction: unstable, volatile, and guided by the dark alchemy of Al Jourgensen. Even the band’s name, “Ministry”, evokes something both political and religious — a morphing symbol suited to whatever Jourgensen needs it to mean at the
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The Melon Heads is an American Folklore about a Midwest doctor who experimented on children with hydrocephalus resulting in their deformed appearances. The popular horror tale has been brought to life by Eddie “Fright” Lengyel (American Poltergeist: The Curse of Lilith Ratchet, Hellweek) and is available now on Tubi. A senior project sends two students
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Martin Sheen has had an illustrious career that includes the likes of Apocalypse Now (where he was actually bleeding in the opening sequence), Wall Street, The Departed and The West Wing. However, for fans of superhero movies, he’ll always be best known as Ben Parker, a.k.a. Uncle Ben, in The Amazing Spider-Man, arguably the most
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Libraries are Scrambling for Books Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. 404 Media covered why it might be harder for all of us to get new releases from our local libraries.
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Official Trailer for Joe Davison’s horror film, Sorority of the Damned starring Felissa Rose, Sydney Carvill, Kaleina Cordova, Chelsea Jordan, Jaime Brightbill, Olivia Cordell and Joe Davison. Trevor Harmony is an inept handyman who discovers his family’s lineage is far more then he suspected. Now he must step into action and save four unsuspecting sorority
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Patricia Brennan is a master composer and improviser on mallet percussion, and her last album, Breaking Stretch, was a high-arcing highlight of 2024 in jazz. The follow-up, Of the Near and Far, is also one of the best and most exciting albums of this year in creative music. Although Breaking Stretch incorporated subtle electronic elements
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Begin to experience the music of Charlie Bruber by dropping the needle on the first track of his new record. You’ll likely be pleasantly surprised by the sheer variety of everything that follows. Prized Burden, Burber’s second album, begins with the song “Charlie?”, a spacey, widescreen instrumental soundscape featuring Burber on an Oberheim OB8 synthesizer,
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Shooting Star, the new album by Philadelphia-based band Golden Apples, begins and ends with its outlier songs. Opener “Another Grand Offering for the Swine” is a brief dirge that’s over before you’ve even had a chance to decide whether you like it or not. Meanwhile, the closing track, “How Long Must I Stay in This
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Terry Klein’s fifth studio album, Hill Country Folk Music, offers a moving meditation on aging and memory in intimate and environmental terms. He knows he’s getting older. Youth has passed him by, and the natural world has become a less lovely place, but he’s not old yet, just older, and the despoiled ecology still has
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The Berlin-based, multidisciplinary artist Lisa Harres brings their poetic sensibility to their debut album, Time As a Frame. Some albums are purely records, others are worlds—Time As a Frame is firmly in the second camp. Across nine songs and three interludes, Harres sets oblique imagery to sparse, classical-inspired arrangements, bolstered by orchestral flourishes—the result: a
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