Articles by Michael Edwards
The Orchids
Beatitude #9
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2014
On paper, it doesn't really look like Scottish band the Orchids are very prolific. After all, five albums in 26 years is not the most impre...
Negativland
It’s All In Your Head
PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2014
Everyone's favourite culture jammers Negativland are up to their old tricks again, with their first album in six years. Spread over two CDs...
The Vincent Price Collection II
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2014
Considering that Vincent Price appeared in more than 100 movies, there were still plenty of good ones left over after last year's The Vince...
A Life In The Death Of Joe Meek
Howard S. Berger and Susan Stahman
PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2014
Even if Joe Meek's name isn't immediately familiar, the music that he masterminded back in the 1950s and '60s will be. His best-known tune...
Hemlock Grove: Season One
PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2014
Hemlock Grove is a big mess of a show, but it desperately wants to be a hot mess of a show — it doesn't get there. It tries its best...
The Vaselines
V For Vaselines
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2014
When Scottish indie-pop heroes the Vaselines came back for their musical victory lap in 2011 with Sex With A X, nobody begrudged them their...
Filth
Jon S. Baird
PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2014
Blame Trainspotting. It managed to convince the world that the novels of Irvine Welsh were actually filmable, rather than the messy, stream...
Workaholics: Season 4
PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2014
Somehow, Workaholics has managed to stick around longer than just about every other scripted show that Comedy Central has ever made. Its gl...