Month: December 2015
Review: System Shock: Enhanced Edition
For the uninitiated, System Shock and System Shock 2 deserve some credit for merging the FPS and RPG genres back in the ‘90s. … read more
Soft Limbs: “Playing Shows Is Dangerous”
By retaining a sense of DIY that hearkens back to the music scene in the Pacific Northwest circa the late ’80s and early ’90s, Soft Limbs manage to seamlessly thread together melodies rich with eclectic instruments such as the vibraphone while incorporating calculated synths, looks and bossa nova–inspired percussion. … read more
Review: Wild’s End
Wild’s End is very much a take on the classic alien invasion tale War of the Worlds, but with the added twist of the characters being anthropomorphic animal people. … read more
Review: The Mantle
The Mantle is nothing shy of a continuation of Image Comic’s proud history in new titles. … read more
Review: Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and...
CHOOSING DEATH: THE IMPROBABLE HISTORY OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE ALBERT MUDRIAN AND JOHN PEEL Feral House Books Street: 10.01.03 This book reaches deep into the earth and pulls out the roots of grindcore and death metal from Day One. Picking up from about the time that the thrash and crossover movements died off, the
Review: Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The...
Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The Stories Behind the Classic Songs Chris Roberts Carlton Books Ltd Street: 10.01.04 This is the quintessential rocker coffee table book. It’s basically unbearable to read from cover to cover, but is delightful in snippets. Walk on the Wild Side is a play-by-play interpretation of literally everything
Review: Race Driver 2006
Race Driver 2006 Sumo Digital/Codemasters Reviewed On:PSP Street: 06.06 There are plenty of arcade style racers already here but Race Driver 2006 is one of the first attempts at a serious racing simulator on the PSP. As you might expect from a dated game (this is a port of TOCA Race Driver2), the graphics are
Review: DADA
DADA Rudolf Kuenzli Phaidon Press Street: 10.16.2006 Rudolf Kuenzli, a leading scholar of dadaism, joins forces with Phaidon Press, printer of fantastic art books, to make a survey on dada. While dadaism is one of the best known art movements of the 20th century, Kuenzli provides a great overview of the movement through his introductory