Articles by Michael Barclay

Calexico

Garden Ruin

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

The gross simplification about Calexico’s fifth album is that it finds Joey Burns and John Convertino putting the mariachi horns to rest an...

Prince

3121

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

3121 is 1122 years away from 1999 — not just numerically, but as a representation of the chasm between Prince’s glory days and the flounder...

Remington Steele Season Three

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

If the first two seasons of this show were throwbacks to the mixed gender detective teams of the ’30s and ’40s, the show had definitely jum...

The Laurel And Hardy Collection

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

Don’t be fooled by this supposedly definitive title. A more appropriate moniker would be The 20th Century Fox Laurel and Hardy Collection,...

Barzin

My Life in Rooms

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Barzin sure sounds like he spends his life in rooms, longing to escape and seek sunlight and solace. In the meantime, he’s locked inside wi...

Howe Gelb

Arizona Amp and Alternator / 'Sno Angel like You

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Watching Howe Gelb play live, it’s immediately apparent that he’s not of this world. He has the aura of an ancient storyteller operating at...

All The President's Men

Alan J. Pakula

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Thirty years after it was made, this film is anything but a history lesson. In an era when political dirty tricks are de rigueur and wireta...

Low / His Name Is Alive

La Sala Rossa, Montreal QC - February 1, 2006

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Knowing what we know, it's nearly impossible to appreciate a Low show on its own merits. These dates made up for 2005's aborted tour, calle...