Recent Columns

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Tuesday, September 8 2009

Louisiana Woman, Texas Troubadour

By Juli Thanki

Need more duets in your life? Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb are among country music's best partnerships.

(more Torch & Twang)

Friday, September 4 2009

Ride This Time Machine Down a Road Less Traveled

By Mark Reynolds

Jump into that ’59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with the maxed-out tailfins, contemplate what an original Barbie doll could fetch on eBay, and enjoy this roll call of Reasons Why Everything Changed in 1959.

(more Negritude 2.0)

Thursday, September 3 2009

Drunk and Driven

By Michael Brett

Delilah's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago is everything The Rockist wants in a bar. Loud. Comfortable. Cheap.

(more The Rockist)

Buster Keaton: The Sound of His Obsession

By Michael Barrett

Bill Frisell's ambient, fuzzy, meandering guitar doodles sound like they're trying to approximate the sad stillness blowing through the corridors of Keaton's mind.

(more Canon Fodder)

Wednesday, September 2 2009

Just Eat It

By Ben Rubenstein

I'll take the wasabi potato croquettes that came with the lamb racks in the "Sheep in Wolf's Clothing" dish (inspired by TV on the Radio's "Wolf Like Me") over Hard Rock's seasoned fries any day.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Not to be Silenced: To Kill a Mockingbird

By Jennifer Makowsky

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is more than an enlightening tale of the racial inadequacies in the South during the Depression -- it inspired people to study law.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Tuesday, September 1 2009

He’s Just Not That Into Anyone

By Jennifer Byrne

Asexuals, also known as “aces”, have begun to assert their place as a valid and healthy sexual orientation; even SpongeBob is in on the (lack of) action.

(more Pop Osmosis)

Monday, August 31 2009

The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right

By Liz Colville

The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.

(more Backslash)

Friday, August 28 2009

Rabid and Rascally Creatures: Richard Brookhiser’s “Happy Darkies”

By Rodger Jacobs

Familial or political, conservatives in America actually have no moral boundaries whatsoever.

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Thursday, August 27 2009

Dear Mr. Denby: In Defense of Inglourious Basterds

By Michael Brett

Quentin Tarantino drives critics nuts because he loves movies. 'New Yorker' critic David Denby drives The Rockist nuts because he hates movies.

(more The Rockist)

All in the Family: Gloria Sings the Blues

By Kit MacFarlane

Where a thousand stone-faced social dramas have despaired over the decay of interpersonal relations and marital unity, this is the interpersonal angst of an Ingmar Bergman movie saved by a sitcom ending and a live studio audience.

(more Retro Remote)

Wednesday, August 26 2009

G.I. Joe’s Future Hangs on the Unbalanced

By Monte Williams

The fate of 'The Rise of Cobra' (both the toys and the movie) might depend on something completely out of Hasbro’s control: nostalgia.

(more Lowbrow Literati)

Tuva Meets Technology

By Derek Beres

From the ‘non-existent’ land of Siberia comes the long-existing sound of Tuvan drumming and throat singing.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, August 25 2009

Maxwell and the Soul of Neo Soul

By Roland Laird

If Dr. Martin Luther King composed songs they may very well sound like Maxwell at his best.

(more Write Black at You)

Monday, August 24 2009

Emmy Nominations / Emmy Abominations

By Matt Mazur

And the nominees for Best 'White' Actress on Television are… the exact same group of women who are nominated every single year by the unimaginative voting bloc.

(more Suffragette City)

Friday, August 21 2009

Hip-Hop Marketing in the Digital Era

By Quentin B. Huff

In the Digital Age, music and information sit at our fingertips. How do rappers use tools, new and old, to distinguish themselves from the competition?

(more Busted Headphones)

Thursday, August 20 2009

Vinyl Dependent: The Needle and the Damage Done

By Michael Brett

The independent record store lives another day. But how long can the vinyl lifeline continue to keep them afloat?

(more The Rockist)

Hip-notized by a Male Billie Holiday

By Will Layman

Discovering the first collection of duets between popular singer Tony Bennett and jazz pianist Bill Evans popped my top and buttered my bread.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, August 19 2009

Hockey Skatin’ Singing Cowgirls

By Juli Thanki

Country music ain’t the sole purview of the southern part of the northern hemisphere: Canada has its share of fireside soul(ful) singers, too.

(more Torch & Twang)

Tuesday, August 18 2009

Vinyl Spin Cycle

By Ben Rubenstein

Each time I sheepishly purchase another CD, I’m digging myself further into the technological hole, and falling farther behind the cool vinyl-playing crowd.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

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