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...