12. Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979) The week that Pink Floyd’s The Wall debuted on the Billboard Top 200, the band’s earlier album The Dark Side of the Moon was in its two hundred and eighty-ninth week on the same … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #12
Biden’s UAW Rally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Trump’s Populism by Eric Levitz This column is a welcome corrective to the ongoing delusion of media outlets that take the GOP’s feints toward supporting working-class citizens and parrot them as sincere. To … Continue reading Outside Reading — You’ve Earned a Hell of a Lot More than You’re Getting Paid Now edition
“Infinity Worm,” the new single from ME REX, is reportedly inspired by any number of science fiction tales where imposing creatures descend to Earth after traversing the vastness of outer space. The chorus assurance of “But I promise, promise, promise/ … Continue reading This Week’s Model — ME REX, “Infinity Worm”
Since great television comedy always begins with the script, this series of posts considers the individual episodes that have claimed the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series over the years. The members of the Television Academy … Continue reading Golden Words — Taxi, “Tony’s Sister and Jim”
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. Sometimes the product that needs to be sold is reasonable behavior in social setting. This is at … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — The Two-Fisted Slopper
GUIDED BY VOICES Welshpool Frillies (GBV Inc.) — Many bands standing before the monolith of a big-number anniversary would understandably take the occasion to press a grand statement to record, some collection of songs steeped in nostalgic and pummeled by … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Welshpool Frillies; The Loveliest Time
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. When I was a … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Abbott and Costello, “Two Tens for a Five”
13. General Public, All the Rage (1984) In some ways, it was in an inopportune time to close up shop on the band known in their homeland as the Beat and with the added explanation that they were English for … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #13
The New Version of the Replacements’ Tim Is Quite Literally Revelatory by Jack Hamilton Much as I love the band and consider them highly formative in my college radio career, my penny-pinching ways have largely dissuaded me from stocking my … Continue reading Outside Reading — Razzle Dazzle Razzle Droll edition
I usually cram all my three-quarters-baked observations about the tracks highlighted in this weekly feature. In the case of the different version of the Breeders’ alternative rock hit “Divine Hammer” that was released this week just ahead of its inclusions … Continue reading This Week’s Model — The Breeders, “Divine Mascis”
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