The first of two Coheed albums over the next six months, Ascension renews the adventurous promise of Sanchez’s vivid imagination set forth in the early 00’s.
The thing I liked most about the NLCS match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants was that it was a duel between the two previous World Series winners. To win a championship is hard. To defend that championship is even hard…
Nearing the home stretch of this list, I’m aware that we’ve doubled up before: the weekend of October 6th we looked at George Romero’s first two Living Dead movies, and I got vocal about small but wonderful stretches of the other…
Ill Nino is the kind of band that I just can’t stop liking. Coming at the tail end of the nu-metal explosion, Ill Nino brought something different: A tribal ferocity that sounded unlike any of the bands they were compared to at the time. On t…
Former pro wrestler Superstar Billy Graham had one of the greatest raps of all-time. One of them could be used to describe Ryan Vogelsong tonight. “I’m the man of the hour, the man with power, too sweet to be sour.” And while Vogel…
It’s Saturday! Therefore, it’s time to check in to hear this week’s Staff Picks from us here at Popblerd! While still a diverse set, this one is consistently on the mellow side. So kick back and chill on this Saturday afternoon …
After I wrote many words about Tim Lincecum and his alarming regression in 2012, I added a couple paragraphs about #RallyZito . At the time of my writing, it was a fun little Twitter meme that Giants fans were using to try to stay positive about the…
We discussed, way back on day 4 of this shindig, the intangible sense of pleasure a cheesy ’80s horror movie has to offer; while that entry, Night of the Demons , makes its mark with irrepressible atmosphere and delightfully low-rent ’…
I should take offense to the title of this book. I am-somewhat unashamedly-a New Kids on the Block fan. I am also a guy. A black guy, to boot. Of course, my deficit in the heterosexuality department might explain some of my NKOTB fandom, but I̵…
There’s something about a horror anthology that has always sucked me in. I remember distinctly my fourth-grade teacher reading aloud Alvin Schwartz’s immortal compendium of terrifying tales, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It was a m…
Neurosis is one of those bands that I know I should be a fan of but I’ve never been really. That changed with 2007′s Given To The Rising which I forced myself to listen to because I felt I owed all of the bands I liked already who credi…
Regardless of what legendary giallo pioneer Dario Argento’s finest film is — I wager that most would say Suspiria, but Inferno gets a lot of love too — it’s hard to deny that his lurid, grotesque murder mystery Deep Red is am…
Having seen two Ben Folds performances prior to Saturday night’s show at the House of Blues in Boston, I knew I was in for a good time before I even arrived inside the venue. However, this show marked the first time I’d be able to see Ben Folds …
The Cardinals and Giants have played in the NLCS twice before. Giants fans remember the team being up 3-2 in 1987, only to lose the next two games in St. Louis. There was the 1-0 John Tudor vs. Dave Dravecky masterpiece and the Atlee Hammaker implos…
We hear a lot about being haunted around Halloween. It’s a word often used to reference ghosts, and what they do when they’re stuck between planes of existence; it’s also how certain movies make us feel, especially when their spect…
Giants fans have been accustomed to Buster Posey’s theatrics all season long. The probable National League MVP hit a league leading .336 (thanks Melky Cabrera) with twenty four home runs and seemingly a big hit in every important game. Yet, in…
Yesterday, I made the case for two less-than-stellar films ( When a Stranger Calls and Amusement ) that nevertheless contained standalone sequences amounting to miniature genre essentials. As atonement for directing you towards two films so hit-and…
If you’ve ready any of my baseball posts around these parts, you may know that Tim Lincecum fascinates me. He fascinates me when he does well, and he also fascinates me when he’s not doing well at all . He’s the most charismatic ba…
It often seems as though each modern horror movie can at least muster up one virtuoso sequence, something better than the sum of its parts. Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors is often staid and unremarkable, but there’s a moment in there where Amy …
