…sort of sucks this whole music is available everywhere crap. Strolling through my daily blog reading and music listening I came across this article from NPR music telling me how prolific Jozef Van Wissem was over the last decade. He plays the lute. Being the kind of person I am and not knowing anything about […]
Connor Oberst is once again giving us a taste of his “post-hardcore this is not Bright Eyes” band Desaparecido. Oberst progressively gets more and more leftist. And while I still prefer some of the older Bright Eyes stuff and the first Desaparecidos album, Oberst is consistent enough to continue listening to what he puts out. I’m […]
I suppose I should write more about each of these and it should be noted in a different mood I might make a slightly different list, but for posterity’s sake here it is: Top Ten All Together 1- Heems “Wild Water Kingdom” and “Nehru Jackets” 2- Cattle Decapitation “Monolith of Inhumanity” 3 Brother Ali “Mourning […]
7. Noctourniquet Well the Afro-section of the late and great At The Drive-in have released another convoluted modern-prog masterpiece/boredomfest. Strange sentence there huh? Is The Mars Volta’s new album a masterpiece or a boredomfest? It certainly can’t be both. That’s where you’re wrong. Actually I just told you that you were wrong for effect, you’re […]
2. It’s rare I don’t finish a book, but here’s an example of that rare anomaly. I gave Rant a 2 because it’s likely that ‘ol Chuck there had some cool, weird, surprising ending. Unfortunately getting to that cool, weird, surprising ending is contingent on getting through the annoying, boring, uninteresting beginning. I didn’t read […]
8. A version of Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine has been floating around the internet in an 8-bit version. It’s worth a listen especially if you like minimalist stuff. I like new takes on old stuff and I like it when a new take on something old is done in an old nostalgic style. […]
7. Pitchfork Thinks they’re as intellectual as a scraped knee. I call them refreshing and unruly. Definitely an album I had to give a couple of listens to before I realized it was so good. At first it annoyed me that Stephan Burnett’s vocals and Zach Hill’s acoustic drumming weren’t taking center stage, but the […]
8. Things I’m going to get over with at the very beginning: Liturgy makes black metal fans mad because they where jeans instead of corpse paint. Lead singer Hunter Hunt-Hendrix wrote what amounts to a treatise on black metal and its future, that made people mad. Black metal types are stupid even though black metal […]
7. This is nice little album. I don’t feel like it’s something I’d call groundbreaking but it is a nice change of pace without getting too experimental. It’s a wonderful piece of world music worth a listen especially as an entry level album to Malian music. The background of me even finding this is a […]
9. It’s dirty. It’s abrasive. It’s weird. It’s hard to like on the first listen, but a trained ear even on a first listen can know that something is there, something is going on. I’m not sure if Death Grip‘s first album Exmilitary is good, but it is interesting, it does get huge points for […]
8. This is a very entertaining book which tells the incredible stories of how all of the Black-Scholes model was put together. It takes you on a ride through 1800s France, to World War II and even all the way to Japan, before finding its place in the United States where Fischer Black, Myron Scholes […]
9. Listen I know I’m supposed to be cool indie guy who watches foreign movies and art films and all that BS, but what can I say about Marvel’s Avengers? It was fun, plain and simple. There were a lot of super heroes bashing things and saving the world and destroying property. No it didn’t […]
A few days ago I posted a review of the new Sigur Ros album Valtari and mentioned that they gave a handful of directors complete creative control. Here is the video release on June 6th. Sorry to say I’m not that impressed with it. But here it is:
7. Adam Carolla’s new book Not Taco Bell Material comes out on June 12th so I figure I’d throw up this late review of his first book before his new book hits the stands. I only gave it a 7 because if you’re a fan you’ve heard most of these stories in some fashion before. […]
7. The Melvins‘ new album Freak Puke comes out today, but I wanted to get this review up before I’m able to review of that album as I’m a bit of a late bloomer to The Bride Screamed Murder (but by no means new to the Melvins as a band) and thought it’d be cool […]
7. If you look over to the right you’ll see a list of albums that I’m currently listening to. That list basically serves as a preview of what will be reviewed in the future, unless I have no opinion about it, which I can guarantee will be a rare occurrence. The problem with that list […]
Just finished watching The American staring the underrated George Clooney, I wish I could say that this movie was underrated, but unfortunately it was just boring. When I lived in Europe, or when I talk to the more artsy type of movie watcher here in the United States I understand when someone complains about the […]
I always try to watch all the films nominated for best picture, I never succeed but I always try. The last two years has made it even more difficult now that they have added to the number of films that get nominated. One would think this would annoy me, since I could never really finish […]
Radiohead decided to announce their new album less than a week before it gets released, though it is released digitally, like In Rainbows, it is not being released for free or for donation. King of Limbs is good, the only problem is that for Radiohead good isn’t good enough. This is a band that bent […]
Joseph Ellis has a wonderful idea for history writing that takes the biography to another level. As any history reader knows, there are a lot of biographies on all of the founding fathers, let alone the biggies like Jefferson, Adams and Jefferson. Some encompass entire lives, others focus on specific events, e.g. Washington as a […]