Steven Soderbergh's Seattle flick, another Sopranos book, and new music!

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Steven Soderbergh's Seattle flick, another Sopranos book, and new music!

TECH BUBBLE
As someone who spent a good chunk of 2020 alone in a Seattle apartment during the onset of COVID, I could relate to Angela Childs (Zoë Kravitz), the central character in director Steven Soderbergh's new tech thriller, KIMI (streaming on HBO Max). (Though unlike Angela, I lacked a sprawling fantasy apartment.) When she overhears a crime while doing her job listening to and logging recording errors for a Siri/Alexa-esque tech assistant, the extreme hypochondriac gets caught up in a dangerous web of tech-financed terror. While Kimi doesn't reinvent the wheel, it checks the thriller entertainment boxes and is one of the better Seattle films in a while. (SETH SOMMERFELD)

BETTER OFF DEAD

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As a big Sopranos fan, I was pretty excited to get the new book by two of the HBO classic's stars. I didn't realize, though, that WOKE UP THIS MORNING: THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY OF THE SOPRANOS is essentially just printed transcripts of Michael Imperioli (Christopher Maltasonti on the show) and Steve Schirripa (Bobby Bacala) from their Talking Sopranos podcast. Upside: lots of juicy memories from the cast and crew, and much love for James Gandolfini (R.I.P.). Downside: lots of dialogue between the "authors" that might be charming on a podcast, but just seems odd in a book. Sopranos obsessives are better served by 2019 book The Sopranos Sessions. (DAN NAILEN)

THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST

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Noteworthy new music arriving in stores and online March 11:

TANYA TAGAQ, Tongues. The world's most famous Inuk throat singer returns with another collection of socially charged and boundary-pushing, drone-heavy experimental music.

ALEX CAMERON, Oxy Music. It's hard to describe exactly, but Alex Cameron has huge David Lynch energy. The Australian alt-pop rocker's latest LP comes from the perspective of a disillusioned man who turns to opioids.

GHOST, Impera. The theatrical Swedish doom-metal band dusts off its skull face paint and sinister pope hats to deliver another dose of bone-shaking arena rock. (SETH SOMMERFELD)