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GWAR at House of Blues, December 7

December 8, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Metal never really gets the credit it deserves. Behind the seemingly impenetrable wall of sound – that rush of gruff vocals, ear-shattering drumming, whiplash-inducing guitar work and pounding bass – rests something irresistible. The aural atmospheres seem to plug into a part of the brain that releases visceral, animal like urges that are then burnt … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Barack Obama, Chicago, GWAR, House Of Blues, Job for a Cowboy, metal, Michael Jackson, music, Saddam Hussein, The Red Chord, Thrash metal

When a correction becomes the Public Enemy

December 6, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Usually, newspaper corrections tend to fly under the radar. They appear in the paper days after the initial article with the mistake in question was published. By that time, most readers have most likely forgotten about the mistake and/or article and have moved on. That’s not the case with Akeya Dickson’s Washington Post article on … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Akeya Dickson, Billboard, digg, Facebook, Fear of a Black Planet, Flavor Flav, hip-hop, journalism, music, Newspaper, Public Enemy, Rachel Maddow, The Daily Swarm, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Twitter

Somebody give Mickey Rourke a Grammy

December 4, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The Grammy Award nominees were officially announced last night. Most criticisms of its blatant populism and lack of any surprise nominations aside, let’s tackle the really big issue with this years nominees: No Mickey Rourke. This is bigger than his Oscar loss last year to the overrated performance by Sean Penn in Milk. But wait. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Academy Award, Grammy Awards, hip-hop, Lady Gaga, Mickey Rourke, Milk, music, Oscar, rap, Rogue Warrior, Sean Penn, The Wrestler, video games

I Can Haz The Bride?

December 3, 2009 / Leave a Comment

People always talk about how technology impacts our society at such a rapid pace and look-at-all-the-terrible-things-that-are-happening-because-of-it, blah blah blah. I never thought an iPhone App would turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger a la Terminator. This is hardly on the same level of end-of-the-world-at-the-hands-of-technology type of situation, but it does frighten me: [youtubevid id=”VSkT5XykJzo&feature=player_embedded”] Where do you … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Buzzfeed, Dana Hanna, Facebook, iPhone App, Terminator, Twitter, Wedding

Sons of Anarchy, Henry Rollins and a few good musician-actors

December 2, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Last night, FX aired the “Sons of Anarchy” season finale to the largest audience in the show’s history. And it was a doozy of a show, and no doubt will draw more people into the show’s Hamlet-inspired tale of a California biker gang caught in the eye of an ideological storm when the third series … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: A.J. Weston, Almost Famous, Bad Brains, Bamboozled, Black Flag, California, Elton John, Hamlet, Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop, Mark Kozelek, Mau Maus, Mos Def, punk rock, Red Hous Painters, Rollins Band, Sons of Anarchy, Stillwater, Sun Kil Moon, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Tiny Dancer

Will Too Much Joy ruin the Music Industry's digital joy?

December 2, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The A.V. Club posted a link to Tim Quirk’s blog post on the odd inconsistencies of digital downloads and the money that artists recoup. Or don’t ever see for that matter. Quirk, former frontman for Too Much Joy, detailed the rather heinous business practices on his blog after receiving a “Royalty Statement” from Warner Brothers. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Arts and Entertainment, File sharing, music, music industry, Rich Cohen, The A.V. Club, The Record Men, Tim Quirk, Too Much Joy, Warner Brothers

Pete Doherty: Self-Hating Jew or Living Under a Rock?

November 30, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Some musicians are known to be reclusive individuals, so it might be easy to cut them a break if they make some sort of mistake in the rare times they enter the public eye. Pete Doherty is not one of these musicians. The former Libertines frontman spends plenty of time in the spotlight, be it … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Das Deutschlandlied, David Hasselhoff, Germany, Hit The Road Jack, Munich, Nazi, NME, On3 Festival, Pete Doherty, Ray Charles, The Libertines, U.K.

Culture of Cute or Kitsch Kulture?

November 30, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Vanity Fair‘s Jim Windolf recently wrote an odd-little feature on cuteness. “Addicted to Cute,” covers all your bases on the most important cute-related memes in our culture. But the most interesting part of the article, and its main thesis, seems a bit strange: Cootchie-coo behavior used to be reserved for private moments in the home. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Alexis de Tocqueville, America's Funnies Home Videos, Awkward Family Photos, Cake Wrecks, Chuck Norris, cute, Cute Overload, Facebook, I like turtles, Internet, Internet meme, Jim Windolf, kitsch, Look At This Fucking Hipster, Star Wars Kid, texts from Last Night, Tucker Max, United States, Urban Outfitters, Vanity Fair, Vin Diesel

Pricey Pixies Tickets, or Can Critics Complain About Concert Costs?

November 28, 2009 / Leave a Comment

It’s been well over a week since Jim DeRogatis reviewed the first night of The Pixies’ three-night Doolittle retrospective at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. DeRogatis caused quite a stir among Pixies fans with statements like: …it’s hard to consider them anything but a cynical corporation cashing in on blatant nostalgia–a hipper version of Creedence Clearwater Revisited … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Doolittle, Jim DeRogatis, journalism, Journey, music, music journalism, Sun-Times Media Group, The Pixies, Ticketmaster

Australian news site tries to kill emo, fails

November 27, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Another day, another journalist seeks to kill a genre of music. Today’s suspect is news.com.au‘s Neala Johnson. The weapon – My Chemical Romance. What got the axe? Emo, of course: NO MORE angst. No more whingeing. No more playing the victim. When My Chemical Romance re-emerge in early 2010 with their fourth album, any trace … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar, Andy Greenwald, Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional, emo, hip-hop, Mexico, music, My Chemical Romance, Neala Johnson, Nothing Feels Good, Twilight
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