April 26th marked 30 years since Johnny Cash dropped the first installment of his American Recordings series on an unexpecting public. Harder to believe is that the Man in Black has already been at his Maker’s side for two of those decades.
Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at John Prine’s 1973 country breakthrough, in which he and producer Arif Mardin assembled a tight 22-piece session band and built out the most ambitious and densest LP of the singer-songwriter’s then-young career.
An interminable action-comedy that’s too try-hard and dorky to be any fun. Even a star voice actor can’t help. Our Boy Kills World review:
Umurangi Generation hits VR, with both good and bad alterations.