Usually, anytime a musical artist performs on a talk show, that marks the end of the program: Letterman, Leno or Conan stroll out to shake hands with the band, and…
Jon Cummings
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He may have called for “a kinder, gentler nation,” but the first year of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, 1989, turned out to be Ground Zero for the Culture Wars. It…
Matchup Monkey
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Say Hi (fronted by Eric Ellbogen) is certainly punching above their/his weight here, but they/he just released their/his sixth album Ooh’s and Aah’s last week and is currently on tour…
Molly Marinik
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Preston Martin and Nicolas Greco in Kaspar Hauser BOTTOM LINE: A new musical theatre piece that’s as endearing as it is weird. Off-off-Broadway can be a tricky class of theatre…
Jeff Giles
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I miss buying an album and lying on the floor for three days and going over it with a magnifying glass. I still go to the record store and spend…
Robert Cass
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I don’t know much about this Bob Marley character, but if his performance on the “Welcome to New York” bootleg is any indication, he was a real hack: a quarter…
Jack Feerick
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I’m a big believer in simplicity where simplicity is called for. As cosmopolitan adult audiences, we’re supposed to sneer at simple stories in favor of works that are more conceptually…
Lance Berry
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Thanks to last year’s Iron Man and Dark Knight, the age of the superhero as a legitimate and viable tale in the realm of cinema is now in full effect….
Bob Cashill
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On Tuesday, I read that I’m about to be extinct. I got the word from a chart published on Movie City News, which showed that there were 122 working film…
The Chartburn Panel
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Do not be alarmed! Do not adjust your set! Chartburn hasn’t gone away — it’s just sharing space with some more Friday features, including the the New Radio Roundtable, in…
Dw. Dunphy
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No time for love, Dr. Jones. The fakes await! As I mentioned last week, this post is devoted to the cinematic musical alter egos (and some non-cinematic ones as well)…
Rob Smith
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I’ve long had a man-crush on soft spot in my heart for Paul Stanley, Kiss’ lead vocalist and most musical member. He’s the best singer in the band, a commanding…
John C. Hughes
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On Tuesday, we talked about Jules Shear’s “Whispering Your Name,” a failed single from his solo debut, Watch Dog. While the single and album flopped, it stayed in the hearts…
Mojo Flucke
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Last summer, I gave y’alls a Cephas & Wiggins Cold Shot that had no news peg, no current-events hook that made it relevant to that time, just a nice little…
Scott Malchus
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Through the eyes of my son, I”™ve been reliving a part of my youth in the form of colorful costumed super heroes from cartoons and the pages of comic books….
Jon Cummings
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It”™s been a giggle this week watching Democrats paint Rush Limbaugh as the “bloated, drug-addled” head of the Republican Party, as Paul Begala put it the other day. It”™s been…
Scott Malchus
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2009, MGM) purchase this movie from Amazon: DVD How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is a film that wants to be the…
Tony Redman
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This album from 1978 features the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra playing that most maligned of instruments, the kazoo. The kazoo was invented by an African-American named Alabama Vest in Macon,…
Ben Wiser
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Phish – The Clifford Ball (Rhino) Sherman, set the Way Back machine for that balmy summer of 1996! Jerry Garcia had been gone a year, and a lot of lonesome…
Ken Shane
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It’s no secret that tribute albums and charity compilations can be hit-or-miss affairs at best. In the case of the latter, all you can really do is be happy that…
Jeff Giles
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Lelia Broussard – Waiting on the 9 (self-released, 2008) purchase this album (Amie Street) I’m pretty sure I have t-shirts that are older than Lelia Broussard, but even at the…
David Medsker
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Imagine the exchange that took place when Peter Gabriel brought Us, the long-overdue follow-up to his 1986 critical and commercial smash So (proper follow-up, anyway, with all apologies to 1989’s…
Dave Steed
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Welcome, everyone, to another installment of Bottom Feeders, your weekly look at the Billboard Hot 100 chart from #41 down during the 1980s. This week we tackle the first half…
Ann Logue
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I have a lot of thoughts about the quasi-nationalization of Citigroup, because I am a Citibank shareholder. Some of those shares were acquired in the traditional capitalist manner; my husband…
John C. Hughes
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I gave Jules a quick once-over a little over three years ago, so I think it’s high time I spotlighted another track of Shear beauty, this one from his stellar…
Jeff Giles
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Role Models (2009, Universal) purchase this movie from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray Role Models is a classic example of a “yeah, but” movie. As in: “Aw, Christ, not another raunchy…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Sometimes it’s good to live in the metro area of a big city.Á‚ Sure, you have to deal with heavy traffic, the lack of parking,…
Scott Malchus
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The Lodger is another in a long line of contemporary films that attempt to combine the murky atmosphere of L.A. film noir with the tension and suspense of a Hitchcock…