brooklyn NEW YORK

harry HOWES’ almost ready records releases the world’s lousy series which collects new cuts from bands in the form of limited edition seven inch compilations. volume 8 marks the first full length release and features a killer lineup of fuzz, reverb, and guitar driven rockers. the album includes times new viking’s catchy “a lot of paintings,” thee oh sees punchy “schwag rifles,” and tyvek’s churning detroit dirge “flowers,” as well as songs by vivian girls, blank dogs, intelligence, guinea worms, sic alps, and pink reason.

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copenhagen DENMARK

lars VON TRIER’s thrilling noir europa is now available through the criterion collection. the film tells the story of an american pacifist traveling in europe after world war II and taking a job as a sleeping car conductor. ..[CONTINUED WITH TRAILER]

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

ooking for the magic is max g MORTON’S follow up to indestructible wolves of the apocalypse junkyard. eleven stories chock full of depravity, angst, and humor moving from the suburbs of florida to the streets of new york city. who can resist chapter titles like “a direct to video portrayal of suburban life featuring a teenage klansman, a crackbaby count, and an autistic weatherman” and descriptions such as “ the three of us had our way with the night , and it was ugly. we looked like we just made love to a slaughterhouse, while the walls looked like a mental institution just threw an art show-slash-suicide-party.”

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tierra del fuego ARGENTINA

lisandro ALONSO’S liverpool presents one man’s haunting, beautiful journey in argentina. the lead character, a sailor named farrel, takes leave of his ship to visit his family which he left behind decades before. the trip takes him from the port at cape horn to the snowy, remote village of his youth. the film is spare on dialogue and concentrates on watching farrel as he gets dressed, eats, drinks vodka, hitchhikes, and drinks more vodka. the landscapes through which he travels are gorgeously rendered, from the sea to the port and its shipping containers, or to the strange interiors of a cafeteria and an abandoned ferry. the camera lingers on the spaces well after farrel leaves and at times allows him to become a speck within the frame as if he is somehow incidental to the film. simultaneously, his presence sustains the film forward towards its enigmatic ends. [TRAILER]

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new york NEW YORK

penguin group has continued to expand their graphic classics collection which clothes classic works of literature in french flap jacket designs created by contemporary graphic artists…[CONTINUED WITH MORE COVERS]

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SPACE

al REINHART’S mesmerizing documentary for all mankind distills the eleven apollo missions together into one surreal, epic adventure…[CONT]
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new york NEW YORK

continuum’s impacts series presents seminal texts in contemporary thought packaged in beautiful book design. works by thinkers such as adorno, derrida, deleuze, bataille, virillio, delanda, and kierkegaard come splashed with sumptuous photographs and graphic illustrations.

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gordita CALIFORNIA

thomas PYNCHON’S stoner noir inherent vice follows hazy gumshoe doc sportello as he tries to unravel a case involving real estate moguls, arpanet, shady dentists, a secret organization called golden fang, an undead saxophonist, and wyatt earp’s personal mustache cup…

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paris FRANCE

from the churning guitar opening of “martin luther king day” to the brief blistering closer “take the piss”, TIMES NEW VIKING’S fourth lp born again revisited is packed with fifteen solid cuts.the 37 minutes are packed with beautiful noise from the organ swills and call and response singing on “city on drugs,” the sing along pop of “no time no hope,” the blazer “something moore,” the slow build of “2/11 don’t forget,” the pounding fun of “(no) sympathy”,the swirling + shouting “hustler, psycho, son,” and the sinister laments of the almost shimmering “those days” and chugging “half day in hell.”

new york NEW YORK

the fashion illustrator ruben TOLDEO has created a new set of covers for penguin. the three available titles are wuthering heights, the scarlet letter, and pride and prejudice. toledo brings an eery, atmospheric look to these books with his sublime illustrations adorning the french fold covers. hester prynne never looked more seductive.