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Pitchfork's Year in News feature is a whirlwind tour through the past twelve months of our section. From Jay Reatard's death in January through the Gorillaz iPad album release on Christmas Day, 2010 was full of ups and downs, twists and turns, reunions and breakups, triumphs and disappointments, NSFW and OMG moments. There were crazy melting face masks and bodily fluids, earthquakes and volcanic ...

Fantastic Fest 2009 may be over, but the wrap ups are still coming. Day 5 was one of my favorite days specifically because it consisted entirely of the lower-profile films that Fantastic Fest champions. Coincidentally, my schedule for the day ended up comprised half of horror movies, though in their own ways each felt like they each were from different eras despite all being recently made. “Trick ‘R Treat” is a horror anthology that feels like a cross between the best of late 80s and early

CD Review: Scale the Summit Desert Canyons Prosthetic Records Newly signed to Prosthetic Records, Houston’s Scale the Summit is poised to release its newest full length Carving Desert Canyons. Featuring the stylings of musical virtuosos Chris Letchford (guitars), Travis Levrier (guitars), Jordan Eberhardt (bass) and Pat Skeffington (drums), this 8 song lesson in progression and experimental compositional methods certainly ups the ante for current and future instrumental bands worldwide. S