Articles by Michael Barclay

Tora! Tora! Tora! / The Longest Day

Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda / Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

In the years leading up to 9/11, American filmmakers decided to revisit two bookends in America's WWII history: the bombing of Pearl Harbor...

Monterey Pop

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

In an age where every no-hit wonder gets the deluxe DVD treatment, it’s an innocent delicacy to revisit the original rock concert film. Wit...

Portastatic

Who Loves the Sun

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

Just when the once-offbeat Superchunk side project Portastatic was starting to get too conventionally rock, Mac McCaughan offers up his sec...

Beirut

Up Go the Arms

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

Coming out of a melatonin dream state, it’s never clear where you’re going to land. One minute you’re outside a Brooklyn bodega with a Casi...

Band of Horses

Everything All the Time

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

It’s remarkably unfair to tag a new band with a comparison to an established artist. But right from the opening notes of Band of Horses’ de...

Final Fantasy

He Got Game

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Owen Pallett has never met a dichotomy he doesn’t love. As Final Fantasy, he’s a solo performer who sounds like a symphony. His music is pr...

The Fiery Furnaces

Bitter Tea

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Bitter Tea is the Fiery Furnaces’ fifth full-length in three years, and once again it’s chock full of playful pop songs overflowing with me...

Camera Obscura

Let's Get Out of the Country

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Classic pop music comes to some people naturally; others study it with an academic rigour. While there’s nothing that sounds remotely force...