Month: August 2013
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We Will Remember
In reading about live music, which I tend to do often, and from regularly attending whatever shows interest me within a reasonable travelling distance, I’ve noticed a trend over the last few years. We all know that when we attend a venue for music (or sport, or public speech, or dance, or even drama) we…
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The Conjuring
I can’t believe the level of hype that James Wan’s new horror movie, The Conjuring is, well, conjuring (it’s sitting at 86% on Rotten Tomatoes!). The only people that would rate this movie so high couldn’t have seen any of the seminal horror movies in film history, or they’re stunned and awed by the glittering…
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The Listening Post: Lady Gaga VS. Katy Perry
I wanted to challenge myself a bit, so I threw it out there on Facebook that people should suggest tracks of music that I wouldn’t normally listen to and I would write about one (Wal-mart country, Autotune Pop, Nu Rock, that sort of thing). Apparently, my friends are real dicks, because they went straight to…
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The World’s End
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright make movies about drinking and genre movies, so, it’s hard not to feel like, ‘they get me, man.’ From their early days on the show Spaced, they’ve mined geek culture with an insider’s knowledge. They started their ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ with Shaun of the Dead, which was one of the best-written…
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Five Great Live Freakouts
FIVE GREAT LIVE FREAKOUTS! (Or, last night your intrepid correspondent stayed up far too late with the headphones on and blew his mind six ways from Tuesday). My Bloody Valentine – ‘You Made Me Realize’ – 1992, THE COMMODORE BALLROOM, VANCOUVER Got this one off Soulseek YEARS ago and I don’t think it’s been bootlegged…
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Crocodiles – Crimes of Passion
When a band we’ve not heard before reminds us of a band we know well, we naturally tend to react in one of two ways. When we like what we hear, words like “influence,” “homage,” and “channeling” help us tell our friends and fellow fans why we’re excited about what we’re listening to. When we…
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The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Texas psych rock band The Black Angels can be dark and trippy, but still on the accessible side of the genre. They do have their menacing moments; on their latest album, ‘Indigo Meadow,’ singer Alex Maas vocally stalks around like Darth Vader, long black cape swishing on the deck of his Star Destroyer. But the…
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Shovels and Rope – O’ Be Joyful
Shovels and Rope is the husband and wife team of Michael Trent from The Films and Cary Ann Heart (she had a song on True Blood a couple of years back). ‘O’ Be Joyful’ is their 2nd album, though the first under this exact moniker. Hailing from Southern Carolina, signed to Jack White’s record label,…
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Broadchurch
In the last few years, TV mysteries have created a trend of smartly delving into the emotional side of things, as opposed to just relying on the ‘whodunnit’ stories. While a show like The Killing (The American version) stumbled in its execution and alienated a lot of its audience, it did do a lot right…
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Breaking Bad Poster Art From Around The Web
Like the rest of the TV-loving world, we are totally pumped for the final episodes of Breaking Bad. Aside from binge watching the rest of the series again on Netflix, our obsession led us to some really cool posters and art that fans of the show have made and posted online. Yeah bitch! Poster Art!…