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Thursday, October 6 2011

20 Music Videos from the 1980s That Have Aged Well

In this second installment of Sound Affects' retrospective of music videos from the 1980s, we focus on 20 promos that have, remarkably, stood the test of time.


Wednesday, September 14 2011

Tainted Pasts: Pornography in ‘Meet Monica Velour’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’

Meet Monica Velour and The Girl Next Door demonstrate that mainstream representations of pornography, even in a society in which sex proliferates, are still surprisingly one-sided and inconsistent with counter-narratives offered by industry insiders themselves.


Wednesday, May 25 2011

Oprah May Say Goodbye, But I Say Hello

Not since the Beatles broke up has there been such a communal feeling of abandonment as there is with Oprah's final airing of The Oprah Winfrey Show.


Wednesday, February 23 2011

Waveform: New Highlights in the Electronic Underground

To pair Jamie XX’s interest in this territory with a musical figure like Gil Scott-Heron makes even more sense than perhaps the original conceit of I’m New Here.


Friday, January 14 2011

The Year in Music: April 2010


Tuesday, November 30 2010

The Year in Music: January 2010

Let’s single out the biggest events that happened in the world of music one month at a time, starting with January 2010.


Thursday, March 4 2010

The Marriage Ref: NBC’s Next 10 p.m. Revolution?

When NBC moved Jay Leno to ten, the network thought it was going to change the very face of TV. The goals in developing Jerry Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref were undoubtedly more modest. But Jerry may yet succeed where Jay failed.


Monday, January 18 2010

Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Ingrid Chavez

Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.


Gaga for Fame (Sound Affects) [28.Jul.09]
Keith Haring: Warhol, Jr. (Columns) [7.Nov.08]
Madonna: Hard Candy (Reviews) [10.Jun.08]
Madonna: The Confessions Tour (Reviews) [14.Feb.07]
A League of Their Own (1992) (Reviews) [19.Apr.04]
Die Another Day (2002) (Reviews) [29.Nov.02]
Swept Away (2002) (Reviews) [10.Oct.02]
Madonna: Greatest Hits Volume 2 (Reviews) [13.Nov.01]
Madonna Live: Drowned World 2001 (Reviews) [27.Aug.01]
Madonna: Music (Reviews) [19.Sep.00]
The Next Best Thing (2000) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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