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My wife and I were watching some ’80s music videos this morning when she noticed something odd. “Bette Davis Eyes,” by Kim Carnes (1981): “Thriller,” by Michael Jackson (1982): Kim Carnes, 1981: Michael Jackson, 1983: COINCIDENCE?!?!?! . . . . On a sort of unrelated note, does anybody else [...] Digging deep into the buried strata of pop culture from two months ago: I wasn’t a huge fan of The Muppets overall- too much sad, nondescript new guy, too little Swedish Chef- but the low point was definitely the song “Let’s Talk About Me,” the god-awful rap delivered by Chris Cooper’s villainous oil tycoon: [...] The Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop poll, the definitive year-end music list compiled by surveys of critics all over the country, hasn’t come out yet. However, when it does, based on a completely unscientific survey of stuff I read and people I know, I’ll be surprised if the album Civilian, by the Baltimore band [...] I realized something a couple of days ago: in 2011, for the first time since 1999, I didn’t set foot in a recording studio1. That makes me a little sad. But not too long went by before I realized that every year I hear more records that I like from friends and people I [...] As I’m sure we all remember, October was pretty nuts. The anthrax attacks that followed 9/11 claimed their first victim on October 6. The invasion of Afghanistan began the next day. The USA PATRIOT Act was introduced on October 23 and became law just three days later. This is the backdrop against which Fugazi [...] One of the best-reviewed independent records of 2008 was The Chemistry of Common Life, by the rowdy, overstuffed Canadian post-hardcore band Fucked Up. You know what? Scratch that. The Chemistry of Common Life wasn’t one of the “best-reviewed” records of that year; it was the record that was most frequently reviewed as [...] There are no more hidden thought-palaces—they’re easily accessed websites, or Facebook pages with thousands of fans[. . .]When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all [...] Tonight (Friday, July 29), Houston prog-rock trio the Squishees play at Rudyard’s with Ghost Town Electric and Dead Mineral. When I lived in Houston (and they were still around), the Squishees were my favorite local band. I first saw them at No Tsu Oh in 2001? with I wanna say Black Cat [...] Opener: “This Is Not A Photograph.” Killer. Roger Miller was wearing cargo shorts. He would have looked like one of my uncles if not for his shoulder-length hair, blowing in the stage fan. Hilarious. Probably a third of the set was comprised of new songs- like, material that nobody had heard before. (I [...] This year the Houston Press inaugurated their Web Awards, and their very first honoree was SaveKTRU.org, for its efforts in fighting the sale of KTRU. The awards ceremony was earlier tonight, and Joey Yang, who served as the station manager during the campaign to stop the sale, was kind enough to bring me along [...] |
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