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Tuesday, May 3 2011

Gorillaz: The Fall

Gorillaz release an absorbing if necessarily inconsistent travelogue album recorded during their 2010 tour.


Friday, December 3 2010

‘Burnout’ Ruined Racing Games For Me

What puts Burnout ahead of other arcade racers like Split/Second and Blur is a single and perfectly implemented mechanic: the ability to ram cars.


Wednesday, September 15 2010

Definitely Maybe the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s

Half the fun of lists like this is tearing them down immediately after they’ve been built up.


Thursday, April 22 2010

Blur - “There’s No Other Way”


Tuesday, November 3 2009

15 Years Later: Blur’s ‘Parklife’

Parklife is like a dream date -- it's smart, it's funny, it rocks, it's tender, it gets your blood pumping, and when it's over, you can't wait to do it all over again.


Wednesday, July 29 2009

Blur: Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide to Blur

Sure, Blur were at times all over the map, but this two-disc set actually accentuates the incongruities of their occasional diversity by odd selection choices, bizarre sequencing, and about as much focus as a shuffle button.


Thursday, June 4 2009

Graham Coxon: The Spinning Top

It's a thing of beauty to see one of the best guitarists in recorded history reach his creative peak after so many years of effort and doubt.


Monkey: Journey to the West (Reviews) [1.Oct.08]
Bit of a Blur by Alex James (Reviews) [29.Aug.08]
Various Artists: The Brit Box (Features) [20.Nov.07]
Blur: Starshaped [DVD] (Reviews) [29.Jun.05]
Blur: Think Tank (Reviews) [9.May.03]
Blur: Parklife (Reviews) [24.Oct.02]
Blur: 13 (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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  5. Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast (Features)
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  10. The Top 15 Madonna Singles of All Time (Sound Affects)
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  12. Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Reviews)
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  15. Tower Songs: Townes Van Zandt (Columns)
  16. Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV (Reviews)
  17. The Gay Ole Countryside (Columns)
  18. “Don’t Let Me Fall”: Hip-Hop in the Age of Austerity (Features)
  19. Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks (Reviews)
  20. Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom (Reviews)
  21. Counterbalance No. 67: John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' (Sound Affects)
  22. A Tale of How Great Journalism Became Revisionist History: Grambling State U Football (Columns)
  23. Chairlift: Something (Reviews)
  24. The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos (Sound Affects)
  25. A Look to the Past, An Insight Into the Present: The Use of Gender in 'Mad Men' (Features)
  26. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Heart Attack" (Cosmic Kids Remix) (PopMatters Premiere) (Mixed Media)
  27. The Barbaric (and Poetic) Yawp of Shelby Lynne (Notes from the Road)
  28. Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral (Reviews)
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