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In Wasted Orient, documentary filmmaker Kevin Fritz attempts to avoid aesthetic pitfalls while following the regionally famous Beijing-based punk band Joyside during a multiple-city tour across China. The result is a frenetic glimpse into the daily life of a young punk band trying to break out in the country’s small and struggling rock scene. 
Telephone Jim Jesus has been one of Anticon Records’ flagship producers since his days in Restiform Bodies. His style has remained consistent — noisy, busy downtempo soundscapes that are more funeral march than boom bap. Anywhere Out of the Everything does little to break the mold. 
In support of their second full-length album for Yep Roc Records, Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray — known together as roots rock outfit Heavy Trash — have been giving American concert goers the finest fifties flashbacks possible. 
Along with a slew of notable guest musicians that include Dosh, Andrew Bird, and Alan Sparhawk (Low), Fog have released an album of sometimes eerie, sometimes transcendent experimental pop with Ditherer. 
The burlesque scene has its very own print magazine thanks to Dale “Black Dahlia” Rio, Shimmy Magazine’s co-owner/editor and photographer who recently relocated to Seattle. She has been photographing burlesque for about five years. A little over a year ago she began editing and publishing Shimmy Magazine, the only print magazine devoted to burlesque. 
It has been thirty-five years, and many space adventure movies have come and gone, since men last stepped on the moon. Yet in David Sington’s new documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon, the experience has never seemed so vivid and so untouchable to those of us stranded on Earth. 
There’s finally a good reason to look forward to January. International pop/world musicians Dengue Fever are starting 2008 out right with their anticipated third full-length album Venus on Earth, set for release on January 22. 
Recording on archaic equipment from the 1930s, Los Angeles quartet Health creates a massively imposing wall of fuzz and murk that ranges from frenzied noise rock freak-outs (”Girl Attorney”) to echoing non-syllabic chants of “Lost Time.” 
One of two inaugural records to be released by Korn guitarist James Schaffer’s independent label Emotional Syphon Recordings, Butterfly Pinned is a warped odyssey of atmospheric sound. 
It’s easy to find a friend these days in the continually rising and mesmerizing sound of electro-indie folksters Grizzly Bear. And the band, known for its tantalizing instrumentals and transparent emotions within harmonies, has now put together a compilation of old and new, fittingly titled — you guessed it — Friend.