Score: 8/10 . I think I speak for everyone when I say every time I listen to a new piece of Jimmy Eat World material there’s part of me that wants to condescendingly call it cute and another part that’s like horrified that Jim Adkins is going to bare his teeth and take us on […]
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The thought occurred to me a couple of years back, being reinforced by the fact that we’ve seen no new styles materialize, that the enterprise of visual art, as in creative art paintings, and its cultural efficacy, or power, deteriorated right before or with the onset of the pop culture icon Madonna. Wikipedia has it […]
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Score: 9.5/10 . This new Wilco record Ode to Joy is an eclectic record. Now, this is an important fact, discursively, and it’s also an ironic fact, because just the same Ode to Joy is a very brooding, personal record, in every way an akin companion piece to Jeff Tweedy’s solo album WARM of last […]
Score: 8/10 . If this new Sturgill Simpson record is any indication, then maybe an autocratic government ain’t a half bad way to run things. That is, I have to admit, while not being adverse to this dude, prior to researching this album I had no idea he even had a “band,” let alone one […]
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I might as well take this platform to just give a frank account of what one of my favorite bands, Ween, has been up to lately. Earlier this month they did Riot Fest, the three-day punk shindig in Chicago (they seem to have a predilection for playing shows in the Windy City and even have […]
* Now kids, we’re going to conduct dinner just the same, whether your crazy uncle XTC comes over or not. Sure, he’s been in the middle of the Serengeti with nothing but a canteen, drinking his own urine and initiating “vision quests,” as he likes to say. He** I hope he still has his OPTICAL […]