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Enough

A subversive pleasure from the pen of Nicholas Kazan (son of Elia Kazan), Enough is an ostensibly ridiculous yarn about battered wife Jennifer Lopez who learns Jujitsu and exacts revenge on millionaire husband Billy Campbell. Yet it's also an extremely un-Hollywood evisceration of white America, the family unit, and capitalism itself. Clever, stupid film-making at its best.

Alex In Wonderland

Cult Britpunk director's brief Hollywood foray in full

Bob Log III – Log Bomb

Russ Meyer meets The White Stripes

Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher

Brilliant futurist upgrade of the hip hop aesthetic

Fog – Ether Teeth

Second LP from Minneapolis native

Alice Texas – Sad Days

Simmering sophomore outing from New York alt.country trio

Pulseprogramming – Tulsa For One Second

Excellent post-punk-influenced vocal electronica

Living Proof

The 10 individual CDs from 2001's box set, documenting the rise of the Dead from folky beginnings to fully-fledged masters of the cosmos

Robert Mitchum – Calypso—Is Like So…

While hanging out with calypso stars Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invader on the Trinidadian set of 1957's Fire Down Below, Mitchum hit on the idea of a cash-in album for Capitol execs eager to tap into the next big thing. Harry Belafonte aside, the craze didn't quite sweep, but old sourpuss' unlikely stab is commendable for its gusto, rum-cocktail swing and gentle innuendo (see "Tic Tic Tic"). Sinatra it ain't, but it sure beats Richard Harris.

Richie Havens

Woodstock-era LPs from "Freedom" man
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