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Night & Day

Stone Machine Electric’s self-titled debut is ominous and brutal.

Killer or Filler?

Hensarling: “The days of the mom-and-pop liquor store are gone.” Lee Chastain

Liquor by the Big Box

James Blake’s “Oak Tree in Rattlesnake Canyon”

Gallery

Matthew Fox and Eriko Hatsune pursue an ill-starred wartime romance in Emperor.

Emperor: Occupy Japan