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Song of the Week

We’re trying on a new feature called “Song of the Week”. Every week each of our writers will share the song that made his week just a little bit brighter. The idea is to make this a regular Friday thing, providing we actually manage to stick to a plan.
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“While You Were Sleeping” by Elvis […]

The Good, The Bad and the Queen – No Ugly

A somewhat subdued effort from past Gorillaz collaborators Damon Albarn and Danger Mouse, The Good, The Bad and the Queen extends Albarn’s more low-key, atmospheric groove logic from Blur’s Albarn-helmed 2002 Think Tank.

A “supergroup” of wayward musicians, The Good, The Bad and the Queen somehow congeals without seeming scattered (in other words, too many chefs […]

Responsible Shopping and the RIAA Radar

I’m the sort of guy who really likes to fight those uphill battles. I try to fill up at privately owned gas stations in an effort to drive prices down. I recycle, I don’t leave my television on standby, and I never buy major label CD’s. OK, so every time I go on on a […]

Hellboy: Sword Of Storms

While the flesh-eating zombie is America’s true addition to the horror cannon (that and Ann Coulter, brrr), the comic book is our great gift to the world of literature. It’s a book, it’s a movie, it’s both!

Now, with the miraculous new medium of DVD, it really IS both. Welcome to Hellboy: Sword Of Storms the […]

Sophomore Slump

“Are we growing up or just going down?” is the first line in Fall out Boy’s song “Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year” off of 2005’s From Under the Cork Tree.  That’s an interesting title for a band who was at that time releasing their first major label debut, and their 2nd album.  Last Tuesday […]

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