In his latest column, Scott Malchus listens to a sweet duet and reflects on 17 years of life with his wife.
Zack Dennis
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You’re in the wrong place – the picks for Week 9 of 2010 will be posted HERE on Thursday morning. You really should go read them because Gamblor is absolutely…
Bob Cashill
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Quick—what won Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards? If you recalled Departures, from Japan, take a bow. Like most foreign film winners, the movie was pretty much forgotten…
Ann Logue
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The latest trend in the ”something for nothing on the Internet” game is the pay-to-bid auction site. The auction operator lets such items as cash and gift cards go at…
Ben Wiser
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Start off your Thursday with punishing chunks of doom from some of the best new metal releases, including brand new Yoga, Baroness, and WRNLRD.
Ken Shane
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I am certain that when Frank Sinatra was a child, he must have gazed at the Manhattan skyline just across the Hudson River. If you’ve ever been to Hoboken, you…
Jeff Johnson
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Featuring Richard Dreyfuss, a massive spacecraft, and five of the most iconic notes in movie-music history, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of Jeff Johnson’s all-time favorites.
Jeff Giles
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Beavis and Butt-Head’s least favorite band is back with its fifth — fifth! — album, leaving Jeff Giles to ask once more: You Again?
David Medsker
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This week in Pop Goes the World, David Medsker takes us to church — sort of — with a look at a track from Derek Webb’s latest album.
Dave Steed
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This week, Dave Steed sets off a chain reaction, goes crazy from the heat, rocks a tricky rhyme, and bangs on the drum all day with Tom Sawyer.
Dw. Dunphy
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It’s hard for me to believe that the band’s older fans couldn’t find it in their hearts to forgive Katatonia. They’ve been far away from their black metal roots for…
Scott Malchus
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If vampires, mysteries and romance are your thing, you can do much worse than Blood Ties, the supernatural drama that aired on Lifetime in 2007. The second season collection contains…
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes heads to northern California for this week’s edition of Parlour to Parlour, where he catches up with former Stratford 4 frontman Chris Streng.
Jeff Giles
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It’s got to be a pain in the ass being Rivers Cuomo. On the one hand, he’s a talented songwriter and solid vocalist who happens to front the only band…
Robin Monica Alexander
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Robin Monica Alexander delves into the psychology of guilty pleasures, and recalls her childhood fascination over the movie “Irreconcilable Differences.”
Jeff Giles
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Stop right there, George Jones and Willie Nelson fans. If you think of fiddles and pedal steel when you think of country, you still get angry when you think about…
Jeff Giles
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How much thought do you put into your food? Not long ago, buying food was a much more involved process — people had relationships with their butchers and grocers, they…
Ted Asregadoo
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In his latest Mix Six, Ted Asregadoo contrasts bands’ debuts with songs from their most recent albums, including Weezer, Lone Justice, and New Order.
Jason Crane
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Drummer Ted Sirota and his band Rebel Souls have a new record out called Seize the Time (Naim Jazz, 2009). It’s an explicitly political instrumental album, very in line with…
Jason Hare
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I became a Queen fan the winter before my 14th birthday; a friend let me borrow his well-worn Greatest Hits cassette, and by the time I got to song #2…
David Medsker
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The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An update of the list is when I post the entire list of…
Jeff Giles
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As anyone who takes spirituality seriously knows, it’s only natural for a person to experience ebbs and flows in his relationship with whatever higher power he believes in. But what…
Rob Smith
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This is a memo written in 1977 to the Canadian management of Rush. If pictures from this period are any indication, Uncle Donnie had taken to sporting a green Mohawk…
Ken Shane
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Already a treasure trove for fans of live music, Wolfgang’s Vault is about to get bigger and better. Find out how in COO Eric Johnson’s interview with Ken Shane.
Bob Cashill
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We have five copies of the 2-CD soundtrack to Richard Curtis’ rock & roll-inspired comedy to give away. Find out how you can win!
Jeff Giles
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During its brief lifespan, Blu-ray has been helped along by the usual early adopters, but now that the format has beaten out HD DVD for next-gen dominance, if it’s really…
Ken Shane
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Can you remember 1992? I certainly can, and what I remember is that trash TV — and to some extent, even the mainstream media — was filled with stories about…
Ken Shane
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Ken Shane revisits this 1981 classic in a cold and blustery autumn edition of Cratedigger.
Kelly Stitzel
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It’s Halloween! To celebrate, Kelly Stitzel is spinning the soundtrack from a witchy ’90s cult classic. Fairuza Balk alert!
Bob Cashill
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Movie ballyhoo is in good shape this Halloween season. The made-for-$10,000 Paranormal Activity has become a runaway hit, thanks to clever Internet marketing. ”Chaos reigns” T-shirts are being hawked (or…