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These are the best books we read in 2025!
Our Favorite Books of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best books we read in 2025.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
These are the best books we read in 2025!
WE RECOMMEND: Resurrection
"Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century."
"Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century."
Resurrection - Spectrum Culture
Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
WE RECOMMEND: Resurrection
"Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century."
"Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century."
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Gotta love a year-end list that won’t look like anyone else’s. I wrote about Helen Garner’s diaries for @spectrumculture.bsky.social ‘s book list. spectrumculture.com/2025/12/14/o...
Our Favorite Books of 2025 - Spectrum Culture
These are the best books we read in 2025.
spectrumculture.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Gotta love a year-end list that won’t look like anyone else’s. I wrote about Helen Garner’s diaries for @spectrumculture.bsky.social ‘s book list. spectrumculture.com/2025/12/14/o...
To sleep theater, perchance to Dream Theater ...
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Dream Theater: Quarantième: Live à Paris - Spectrum Culture
Despite some minor nitpicks, Dream Theater’s latest live album is one of their best recorded performances to date, both visually and audibly.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
To sleep theater, perchance to Dream Theater ...
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Wherein I review a Mountain Goats concert and try to make a metaphor about the four elements. Maybe successfully.
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Concert Review: The Mountain Goats - Spectrum Culture
As an atmospheric river drenched Oregon, John Darnielle and the Mountain Goats descended on Portland, armed with a string section and backup singers for an elemental performance.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wherein I review a Mountain Goats concert and try to make a metaphor about the four elements. Maybe successfully.
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
The Beatles Anthology is TWELVE LPs long. We help you by picking the essentials. Read below.
The Beatles Anthology: The Essential Tracks - Spectrum Culture
The Beatles are definitively mainstream because what became mainstream pop and rock music was partly shaped in their image, and yet they are still a band whose music you can put on at work and reliabl...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Beatles Anthology is TWELVE LPs long. We help you by picking the essentials. Read below.
Is it time to give AROUND THE SUN another spin?
Discography: R.E.M.: Around the Sun - Spectrum Culture
Around the Sun may be a middling effort, but it doesn't deserve the scorn it receives.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Is it time to give AROUND THE SUN another spin?
The happiness in Cave's work doesn't last, but the joy does, and the difference between the two makes an essential understanding of his thought.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Live God - Spectrum Culture
The happiness in Cave's work doesn't last, but the joy does, and the difference between the two makes an essential understanding of his thought.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The happiness in Cave's work doesn't last, but the joy does, and the difference between the two makes an essential understanding of his thought.
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Technically, it's a Christmas movie! My review of Happy Holidays for @spectrumculture.bsky.social.
Happy Holidays - Spectrum Culture
A piercing analysis of two families living in Israel – one Jewish and the other Palestinian – who get trapped in a web of lies due to overwhelming societal pressures.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Technically, it's a Christmas movie! My review of Happy Holidays for @spectrumculture.bsky.social.
Miller out of time : Bargain Bin Babylon looks at a forgotten hair-metal also-ran.
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Bargain Bin Babylon: Donnie Miller: One of the Boys - Spectrum Culture
One of the Boys amply demonstrates that Miller was indeed the whole package. He had the voice, the guitar and songwriting chops and – crucially – the looks and hair to have made to a real impact in th...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Miller out of time : Bargain Bin Babylon looks at a forgotten hair-metal also-ran.
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Dove Ellis’ debut is remarkably assured, showcasing a new talent with strong potential.
Dove Ellis: Blizzard - Spectrum Culture
Dove Ellis’ debut is remarkably assured, showcasing a new talent with strong potential.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Dove Ellis’ debut is remarkably assured, showcasing a new talent with strong potential.
Don't call them Mellow Yellow.
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Peter Gordon and David Cunningham: The Yellow Box - Spectrum Culture
It’s a consciously eclectic album, purposely haphazard. Sometimes, however, that slapdash charm can become merely unfocused.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Don't call them Mellow Yellow.
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Kristen Stewart directs! Imogen Poots! Jim Belushi plays Ken Kesey!
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The Chronology of Water - Spectrum Culture
Stewart’s choice to experiment formally and embrace an avant-garde aesthetic quickly shakes off any potential concerns that she's played it safe in her directorial debut.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Kristen Stewart directs! Imogen Poots! Jim Belushi plays Ken Kesey!
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Piercing the Redveil
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Redveil: Sankofa - Spectrum Culture
As talented as he is, there’s always the feeling that you heard someone else do the same thing years ago.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Piercing the Redveil
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ICYMI: We had Ben Nichols from Lucero on podcast. Please check it out and share!!
Enjoy Your Life Podcast: Episode 105: “Southern Gothic” (featuring Ben Nichols from Lucero) - Spectrum Culture
In this episode, David Harris, Holly Hazelwood and Eric Mellor are joined by special guest, Ben Nichols, to talk about Lucero, Southern literature and Ferris Bueller.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ICYMI: We had Ben Nichols from Lucero on podcast. Please check it out and share!!
There's a Heep in the cellar!
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Uriah Heep: The Shadow and the Wind (1973 – 1974) - Spectrum Culture
This fascinating box set captures one of the great ‘70s rock bands just as they passed their peak and entered a period of decline, still successful, still making good music but in a state of crisis.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There's a Heep in the cellar!
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Have you heard of this album??
Rediscover: Spaceheads: Spaceheads - Spectrum Culture
A weird, fidgety album of experiments from a trumpeter and a percussionist still sounds vital and surprising.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Have you heard of this album??
Tangerine Dream still exists but none of the members who played on this classic are still in the group.
Tangerine Dream: Rubycon (50th Anniversary Edition) - Spectrum Culture
Rubycon still sounds like a transmission from both deep space and deep prehistory, an ancient futurism no one else has ever quite matched.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Tangerine Dream still exists but none of the members who played on this classic are still in the group.
Is it bad we reviewed a Mel Gibson movie?
Hunting Season - Spectrum Culture
A solid Gibson gives a sturdy foundation to the narrative, but his younger co-stars are just as good.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Is it bad we reviewed a Mel Gibson movie?
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The new parody film Fackham Hall gives Downton Abbey the Naked Gun treatment. Some of the jokes in here are SO stupid you need to admire the sheer audacity of it.
My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
Fackham Hall - Spectrum Culture
Downton Abbey gets The Naked Gun treatment in this parody of British period dramas, the kind of relentless comedy where the stupidest jokes gets the biggest laughs.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The new parody film Fackham Hall gives Downton Abbey the Naked Gun treatment. Some of the jokes in here are SO stupid you need to admire the sheer audacity of it.
My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
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Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" was a bit divisive among our members. Figure out where you fall!
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Hamnet - Spectrum Culture
In Chloé Zhao’s oddly inert cinematic adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s excellent novel, the story is reduced to vapid Oscar-bait.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" was a bit divisive among our members. Figure out where you fall!
@spectrumculture.bsky.social
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British trumpeter Laura Jurd may not be well known on these shores, but her folk-inflected jazz deserves some attention. Rite time, Jurd situation!
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Laura Jurd: Rites and Revelations - Spectrum Culture
Rites and Revelations doesn’t announce its revelations or declare its meaning but makes you dig for them and decide for yourself.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
British trumpeter Laura Jurd may not be well known on these shores, but her folk-inflected jazz deserves some attention. Rite time, Jurd situation!
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Echo: Tides of Time
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Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer - Spectrum Culture
Daniel Lopatin seems eager to play tricks on our brains again with Tranquilizer, yet he also seems more aware than ever about the impermanence of his work.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Echo: Tides of Time
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Scene Report: Jens Lekman puts on an act.
Concert Review: Jens Lekman - Spectrum Culture
The highly conceptual tour from the Swedish singer/songrwiter brought along an author and perhaps too much reading.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Scene Report: Jens Lekman puts on an act.
Remember when we said "A.I." we meant this guy?
Misunderstood: by Allen Iverson with Ray Beauchamp - Spectrum Culture
Misunderstood makes a case for athleticism as artwork, and reminds us of the reckless, dangerous, fearless abandon of one of the sport’s ultimate gamers.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Remember when we said "A.I." we meant this guy?