Music: The Obits—I Blame You
Michael Louie04.30.09
Back in the day, I recall my hometown of Newark, Delaware went through a bunch of music trends. One was racist skinhead hardcore. Another one, some…
Music: Zizek Club
Casey McKinney04.26.09
A few years back a friend and I spent a month tooling around Argentina, from Buenos Aires out to the pampas, the rain forest, the desert, western…
Music: Marmoset: Envelope
Casey McKinney04.26.09
With genius lists now, and shuffle since the stone age, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the catalogue you are passively amassing through…
Busdriver: The Avatar of ‘Less Yeses, More No’s’ in the Era of ‘Yes, We Can’
Ben Bush04.10.09
If Obama’s historic ascendancy and the recent month long bull run has extended November’s sense of euphoria of ‘yes we did’ and that all is well again in the world, just remember there are still some Cassandras out there, dissenters like Los Angeles based hip hop artist Regan Farquhar, a.k.a. Busdriver. But don’t pigeonhole him because as he put it himself, “I’m against everything.” Controversial true, but with lyrics belted so lightning fast, he’s tagging all the bases and then some. Busdriver is interviewed and profiled here by Ben Bush.
The Last Warlock: A Brief History of Clark Ashton Smith and The Golden Age of Weird Fiction
Adam Ganderson04.05.09
Clark Ashton Smith, born and lived in Auburn, California, an old mining town founded at the height of the gold rush era. It is known as the "Endurance Capital of the World" and touts itself as a place where old traditions live on, where the good parts of living in a small town endure and time moves just a bit slower. A strange setting for one of the giants of Weird Fiction. Adam Ganderson offers a retrospective look at Clark Ashton Smith—his life in a small town, and his influences on science fiction, fantasy, and popular culture.
Music: Spaces
Casey McKinney03.08.09
How the heck did Spaces get such a great name? No one grabbed that one yet? Anyway, one of the two Spaces lads just alerted us of a cool new…
Music: Famous When Dead 6
Casey McKinney03.06.09
Is it too late to give props to this album? It’s been out a while. But then again, as someone who had to take X to deal with house music…
Here Is Tokyo!
Jason Jude Chan03.06.09
Jason Jude Chan brings us his latest review in record time—it’s the editors who got it up slightly late. Chan has a penchant for showing us the better film on a big movie weekend (see his review of Gomorrah which opened the same weekend as the new Friday the 13th). Here he reviews Tokyo!—a triptych by three directors (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-Ho) of the fantastic city. Tokyo! opens this weekend in New York City.
Music: Scary Mansion
Casey McKinney03.01.09
Wish I knew what a thunderstick is, the seemingly miraculous instrument that Brooklyn based Leah Hayes aka Scary Mansion uses to make her infectious…
Oscar Lessons
Benjamin Strong02.24.09
As the recession deepens ever more quickly, Hollywood in 2009 is already prepped for old school depression era glamor (as The New York Times has already pointed out), is claiming the musical is back, and spent a good bit of this past Sunday evening edifying all of us couch cretins about the ins and outs of its business. Ladies and Gents, the 2009 Academy Awards as seen through the lens of Benjamin Strong.
