[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPWiBV42og] THE BURNING (#3) It’s that time of year again and L.A. RECORD is coming at you with twenty-five more overlooked and obscure horror titles to heighten your Halloween. Most are available through Netflix and others can to be found down at Cinefile or Vidiots. And we’re off with Nolan Knight… 1. Phenomena – An [...]

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I wound up at the Echoplex instead, getting the joy of seeing one of L.A.’s wondrous little surprises, He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister. Cali country is something I love with the fervor of a late convert, since even Buck Owens was little more than some jackass on TV until I moved my Dixie-fried ears out here for an accidental steeping in the Bakersfield Sound and its many variants. Robert Kolar and Felipe Ceballos from tough indie wide-boys Lemon Sun contribute heavily to Brother/Sister, with the whole, shifting, multi-piece concatenation in the great line of Gram Rabbit and the Parson Red Heads in the insistence on coupling the High with the Lonesome.

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