This album is very similar to a number of children’s albums I have, where the material is taken from a number of different sources that fall under the general artist…
Just in time for this week’s Clash of the Titans remake, Jeff Johnson looks back on ten of the most magical moments from special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen.
A video that always makes me happy, and violates Viacom’s copyright: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/vgMgLjMghuk” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] YouTube is taking another round of fire in the ongoing debate about…
This week in Bottom Feeders, Dave Steed brings Dionne Warwick and Warrant together at long last.
Time once more for yet another Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to point out various offerings of a sequential graphics-type nature that I think might…
Two weeks ago Jeff Giles asked me to review Talk About, the new album from Mishka, the first — and so far only — artist signed to j.k. livin Records,…
On February 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived in America, and everything changed. When I say everything, I don’t just mean music. The world was never the same. The societal upheaval…
Hollywood is forever trying to update stuff, and the results are almost always painful, either because the source material isn’t worth revisiting (hello, Karate Kid remake and CG-coated Alvin and…
Live albums, more than any other, date themselves immediately, and not merely because the date is plastered all over the recording. Multiple artists on a roster are even more susceptible….
Flicks don’t get any more testicular than 1999’s The Boondock Saints, a Beantown-flavored slab of Tarantino attitude that emerged as a minor cult hit. The sequel, with the marquee-hogging title…
Michael Fortes has stumbled and fallen for the alluring songs and hypnotic voice of Berkeley’s Ash Reiter, and he thinks the same might happen to you too.
In a 1995 interview with Canada’s MuchMusic, Barenaked Ladies’ vocalist Steven Page attempted to describe his band’s new philosophy following the departure of keyboardist/percussionist Andy Creeggan. For a while, he…
Are you a connoisseur of album cover art? Try and solve the 54th edition of Cover Me!
When the Lightning Seeds sprouted on modern rock radio in the spring of 1990, their songs felt (as much as anything on modern rock radio could feel) like a comfy…
Gentle folk ballads performed in hushed voices by sensitive dudes with acoustic guitars have gotten kind of a bad rap since Zach Braff helped make Iron & Wine famous, and…
An ugly, ageless motherfucker given to pork pie hats and boozy harmonica solos, Peter Wolf is about as rock ‘n’ roll as rock ‘n’ roll gets — the kind of…
In which Rob Smith hears a bizarre album of Hall & Oates covers, and is not pleased.
I first saw Michael Sheen in his native England, in a 1999 National Theatre revival of John Osborne’s ”angry young man” play Look Back in Anger. I’d heard that he…
Ken Shane looks back on the many memorable events of 1968, including the release of a classic Simon & Garfunkel album.
It’s the 25th anniversary of “The Last Dragon” (that dragon’s old enough to rent a car!), and Kelly Stitzel’s got the lowdown on the movie and its soundtrack. Sho’nuff!
Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces is another fine addition to his storied career. Here is a director who embraces his filmmaking influences to inform his movies. Almodovar creates unique visions of…
Folks, I have some exciting news to share with you — the Terrorist Dunking Booth is back! After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, none of us here in…
This week’s mixtape is an ode to Internet-only, independent radio station woxy.com, which, sadly, went off the air earlier this week — perhaps for good. To honor the contribution the…
For once, we agree with the Scorpions, who have announced that their most recent album will be their last. Here are six artists we wish would follow suit.
A couple of extraordinary things happened this past week. One was a big f’ing deal indeed, but the other was a bit more personal. As Sunday night’s Democratic victory on…
Jeff Johnson looks back at the 1976 comedy-thriller Silver Streak, the beginning of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor’s classic cinematic bromance.
A week ago this past Monday, prog kids around the world got their wish when Genesis was finally inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The list of…
Scott Malchus pens a bittersweet farewell to famed photographer Jim Marshall, who passed away this week.
You can thank mall cop Paul Blart for this week’s basement song entry. That fictional creation, played so winningly by actor Kevin James in the film, Paul Blart: Mall Cop,…