Articles by Chris Gramlich

Ultra Dolphins

Mar

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

The mournful accordion that opens Mar is the first sign that things are taking a turn for the progressively weird on Ultra Dolphins’ first...

Cable

Last Call

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2007

For over a decade, Willington, Connecticut death machine Cable made music unconcerned by trends, stable line-ups, success, or appealing to...

The Wire Season 3

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

With television awash (drowning?) in crime scene procedurals (CSI: Gramlich’s Bathroom?) and improbable police dramas, it’s shocking that t...

The Tick vs. Season One

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

Perhaps a more suitable title for the first season of creator Ben Edlund’s cult cartoon classic The Tick, which is finally seeing the light...

Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

It’s an exceptional series that rises above a genre’s clichés to emerge as the best of the best of its time, genre constraints be damned. Y...

V For Vendetta

James McTeigue

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

The tag line states, "People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people,” and it’s a poignant s...

Geisha

Mondo Dell'Orrore

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

It’s becoming increasingly rarer in today’s musical climate of interbreeding, mixing and matching and "everything but the kitchen sink” com...

KEN Mode

Reprisal

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

Winnipeg noise-mongers KEN Mode eschew the Canadian indie metal trend of breaking up after an awesome debut and then returning with a sopho...