Few artists have rendered the art of failure as enjoyable as Claudio Fragasso did with his 1990 film, Troll 2. The combination of stilted acting, awkward dialogue, and a plot that makes any exploitation picture seem drab by comparison helped make Troll 2 a cult phenomenon. Four years ago, Michael St[...]
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July 27th, 2010 - 12:23 am § in Freelance Work
Best Worst Movie and the cult of Troll 2 | Film | Interview | The A.V. Club Chicago
July 14th, 2010 - 9:38 pm § in Freelance Work
Carissa’s Wierd: They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003, Reviewed – Washington City Paper
It’s shocking how many reissues of lost indie-rock acts offer the descriptor “ahead of its time.” Carissa’s Wierd was never ahead of its time. What it was, and still sounds like, is out of place. Though not entirely anachronistic, the disbanded Seattle group’s sound sticks out from its pos[...]
June 25th, 2010 - 6:48 pm § in Freelance Work
Making Friends and Losing Money | Music Feature | Chicago Reader
Matt Harmon has a lot on his plate. The 25-year-old DIY musician and concert organizer is the bassist in mathy screamo quintet Suffix and plays guitar and sings for a punk trio called Cloud Mouth, which is about to drop a new six-song 12-inch, That Ghost Is Always With Me (Ice Age), and on July [...[...]
June 16th, 2010 - 12:42 pm § in Freelance Work
Horrid Shows: What, and who, is behind our bad-movie obsession? | Newcity Film
In the trailer for the new movie “Birdemic: Shock and Terror,” the film’s hero celebrates a million-dollar deal with a high-five from a co-worker. That money is an achievement, a goal people think about endlessly. It’s something recent DePaul University graduate Patrick Dowell ponders from [...]
June 16th, 2010 - 12:09 pm § in Freelance Work
Tonight: Disappears at Black Cat – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper
The word minimalism is used a lot to describe Disappears, the mezmerizing Chicago quartet that dropped its new album, Lux (Kranky), in April. via Tonight: Disappears at Black Cat – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper. I first saw Disappears at the Joan of Arc Variety Show in January. They[...]
May 19th, 2010 - 6:37 pm § in Freelance Work
Everyone Everywhere | Everyone Everywhere – Boston Phoenix
Remember when emo wasn’t just some watered-down pop-punk version of goth? No? Well . . . it wasn’t. It’s hard to think of such a time’s existing now, with so many tepid My Chemical Romance derivatives clogging the scene — but Philly four-piece Everyone Everywhere have turned out an album t[...]
May 12th, 2010 - 1:39 pm § in Freelance Work
Between Albums, Parts & Labor Quietly Makes Some Noise – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper
It might appear that the ultra-abrasive Brooklyn band Parts & Labor has been unusually quiet since dropping its 2008 album, Receivers. Although 2009 was the first year the group went without producing a new album since 2005, the electronics-tinged art-punk act has actually been as productive as [...]
May 11th, 2010 - 1:51 pm § in Freelance Work
“I’m Like the Royal Family, I Do Have Bodily Functions”: A Chat with Public Image Ltd.’s John Lydon – Washington City Paper
Few names in pop music inspire the kind of polarizing, passionate responses as John Lydon’s. He kicked his way into the public consciousness with the Sex Pistols in the ’70s: He was featured in the British tabloids as frequently as members of the royal family, angry protesters hung on his every [...]
April 25th, 2010 - 5:26 pm § in Freelance Work
Pop Adventurism with Think About Life – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper
With its plain name and its immediate sound, the Montreal quartet Think About Life does not necessarily lend itself to SEO: Here is a band concerned only with making good music. “The one thing that I find is really driving the underground music scene is the Pitchforks,” says singer Martin Cesar.[...]
April 25th, 2010 - 5:22 pm § in Freelance Work
Kid vicious – Music Features – Boston Phoenix
It’s not easy being a rapper from Wisconsin. Just ask 23-year-old hip-hop lifer Juiceboxxx. Music journalists and bloggers have spent years trying to pin down the Milwaukee wordsmith’s ecstatic dance rap with one pigeonholing term after another. Nerdcore. Hipster rap. Back in 2007, the Phoenix[...]
