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Friday, June 26 2009

Five Days in March: Uncle Tupelo’s Quiet Revolution

By Bob Proehl

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy may have left country behind, but in 1992, he helped redefine the sound of alt-country.

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

Thursday, June 25 2009

Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema

By Thomas Britt

In recent history, the myriad commercial and social reactions to so-called Blaxploitation films made feasible the rise of a robust, intelligent, and independent black cinema in the US.

(more Pop Past)

Wednesday, June 24 2009

Snagged by Bishop—Hook, Line & Sinker

By Chris Justice

Like the lakes we fish in, there are great treasures lurking in those depths, and great depth lurking in those treasures.

(more The Tackle Box)

Tuesday, June 23 2009

Augusten Burroughs: The View Through a Saltine Cracker

By Michael Antman

As a memoirist, Burroughs is highly skilled at the art of aestheticized self-pity.

(more Read Only Memory)

Monday, June 22 2009

For Summer Dancing in the Streets

By Derek Beres

Six spectacular world beat albums that will have you dancing through those sweet summer nights.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Friday, June 19 2009

Ingmar Bergman: No Man is an Island

By Matt Mazur

Bergman’s need to honor, discover and examine his intrinsic connection to women is quite simple: all men are influenced by women.

(more Suffragette City)

Thursday, June 18 2009

‘Have Gun - Will Travel’: Return to Fort Benjamin

By Kit MacFarlane

With attempted justifications of military torture on our minds, Retro Remote heads back to the '50s TV Western to find a surprisingly tough moral stance on the U.S. military's destruction of human dignity and dehumanisation of 'enemy combatants'.

(more Retro Remote)

Wednesday, June 17 2009

Out of Tune and ‘Amplified’

By Rodger Jacobs

As George Orwell said, “Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, even if it is only a passionate dislike.”

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Tuesday, June 16 2009

Goatwhore: Crazed Endurance

By Adrien Begrand

One listen to Sammy Duet's masterful riffing is enough to send the most fussy metal aficionado into paroxysms of headbanging ecstasy.

(more Blood and Thunder)

Monday, June 15 2009

Surfing Alone: Is Digital Technology Destroying Relationships?

By Liz Colville

On the Internet, we must continually ask ourselves what we are doing, to borrow Twitter's slogan, which sounds at turns like a taunt, a greeting, and an admonishment from God.

(more Backslash)

Friday, June 12 2009

On the Sixth Day God Created Man…chester

By Iain Ellis

Boasting a plethora of bands whose creative imaginations have invariably left legacies of influence, pound-for-pound Manchester is the world’s greatest rock city.

(more Alternative Rock Cultures)

Thursday, June 11 2009

Great Vibrations: An Interview with Gary Burton

By Will Layman

Our jazz critic talks to Gary Burton about his reunion with Pat Metheny, about starting a "gentle" jazz-rock group, and that no one seems to know what a "vibraphone" really is.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, June 10 2009

The Best of the Basket Cases: Round 2

By Ben Rubenstein

Ben bursts open the bubble mailers and announces this round of … winners (honoring the best and brightest of the many unsolicited CDs sent to him).

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Tuesday, June 9 2009

Prince’s Paisley Pals

By Quentin B. Huff

Minneapolis, Minnesota was the center of Prince's musical kingdom, but there were a lot of musicians associated with his purple music. Here's a short list, with a few ground rules.

(more Busted Headphones)

Monday, June 8 2009

Blood Meridian: The Last of the True

By Andrew Gilstrap

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian has been called unfilmable, but that doesn't stop Ben Nichols from getting ahead of the game and crafting a worthy soundtrack.

(more Field Studies)

Footnotes in the Great Book of Gummi

By Monte Williams

Still cute, funny and entertaining, Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears holds up remarkably well on every level.

(more Lowbrow Literati)

Friday, June 5 2009

Stonewall: 40 Years Hence

By Michael Abernethy

America's first gay Vice-President lived for 15 years with America's first gay President – and more from this Gay Pride Month's Public Service Announcement.

(more Queer, Isn't It?)

Thursday, June 4 2009

To Lefty to Willie to Phossy with Love

By Bob Proehl

Even in railing against the influence of another, the musician must admit that influence and its inescapability. Like Br’er Rabbit and the tar baby, every blow struck just brings the two closer together.

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

Wednesday, June 3 2009

Clone Wars: Jim Rome’s World Within a World

By Tobias Peterson

Most sports radio is the intellectual equivalent of listening to static -- it's as illuminating as it is predictable.

(more From the Cheap Seats)

Tuesday, June 2 2009

Is the ‘New York Times’ Tracking Porn Sales Now?

By Shaun Huston

That “comics” persists in connoting “pulp” and “graphic novels” implies something “literary” is purely a matter of convention, and is not because those are the inherent meanings or implications of the terms.

(more Worlds in Panels)

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