Mogwai’s Ready For Its Hollywood Close-Up
“We would love to drop some jams for The Hobbit,” Braithwaite cracks. “In fact, I think that Barry should do the voice for Smaug.”
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Post Up: Is “This Ain’t No Picnic” The Best Labor Tune Ever Made?
I never miss a chance to write something about The Minutemen, the greatest punk band ever to crawl out of Los Angeles. Maybe it’s the fact that D. Boon died […]
Tussle’s Cream Cuts Taste Like…Mitchum?
I’ve had some mind trips on the San Francisco’s electro-whatever outfit Tussle lately. A spiel for Wired, a review for Metromix. I still haven’t been able to wrap my head […]
Infecting Nike, Intiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams
“I think it guarantees that the people in power in that corporation are listening close to what I’m saying and what their kids are dancing to.”
The End Of The Jews? An Interview With Adam Mansbach
“ The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story.”
Disneyraq: The Unhappiest Place on Earth
The following article you are about to read is true. I researched and wrote it for AlterNet, and it is real. It is costly, and it will cost much more […]
Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
The following piece of doom prophecy went up last week, and went over like gangbusters. It snuck up on me like a virus. I had no idea AlterNet had published […]
Pixies Lead Live Album Wish List
The trend is virally replicating.
Black Kids Are Alright
I’ve been swimming with Black Kids lately for Metromix. I feel like I have been drowning in summer sex pop for days now. But my interview with Black Kid leader […]
The Jam’s Paul Weller Dreams of Sleep
A shiteload of my Metromix reviews hit all at once, including this one for Paul Weller, architect of The Jam, Style Council and other bands. Over the last three decades, […]
What Isn’t Shoegaze?
But in the end, it was used to describe bands like My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Swervedriver and pretty much anyone else, like drone minimalists Spacemen 3, who didn’t fall into the comfortable confines of easily classifiable music.
Are Fannie and Freddie Screwed? Bush Hopes So.
Greetings, Morphizm pals. Welcome to the new blog. It’s in the early stages, but should be sitting pretty by the end of the month. Speaking of the end, Fannie Mae […]
Lightning Strikes Spark Climate Crisis Wildfires
Dry lightning strikes in June might be “climatologically rare” now. But thanks to human-induced global warming, they will soon be utterly logical.
Africa Is A Victim In Our Quest For Oil
The ecological impact has been felt in the Niger Delta, which is the oil-producing region. According to the World Wildlife Fund, it is one of the most polluted places on the face of the Earth.
Don’t Be Evil To The Environment, Google
To mangle the cliche, the evil is in the details.
Lost Joins Shyamalan’s Pixies Lovefest
Lost hopped aboard the indie rock legend’s bandwagon during its season four finale, perhaps in hopes of righting its own sinking ship.
Amazon Takes Aim at iTunes With Variably Priced MP3s
it’s going to be harder for iTunes to keep its stranglehold on the downloading business. Especially now that Amazon is making music-surfers offers they can’t refuse.
Climate Destruction Will Produce Millions of Envirogees
Immigration is about to enter a new phase, which resembles an old one with a 21st century twist.
Does M. Night Shyamalan Have a Thing for Pixies?
And where Hitchcock leaned on the striking scores of Bernard Hermann to propel his movies, Night seems to be borrowing ideas from … the Pixies?
Reunited, And It Feels So Loud: An Interview With Swervedriver
As one of the finest bands from the so-called shoegaze scene, Swervedriver released four stellar, underrated efforts from 1991-1998 during a chaotic career marred by label drama and changing pop […]
Who Is Illegal? The Politics of Immigration
We are, all of us, a nation of immigrants, occupying lands that once belonged to someone else
From Spacemen 3 to Spiritualized: Jason Pierce Transcends Time
The influential artist’s experiments have ranged from drone, psychedelia and trance rock to jazz, gospel and ragged blues, sometimes all at once.
Ring the Alarm: An Interview With REM’s Michael Stipe
“I think we can turn this around, but we can’t wait. We need the attention of everyone immediately.”
Grounded In Sound: DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Kid Koala
Consider then, if you will, the Hard Sell Tour as a gathering of fellow revolutionaries keeping the dual promises of turntablism and historiography alive.
A Sorry Spectacle: Comics Journo Joe Sacco On Palestine, Israel, Bush
“ I studied journalism. I use comics to pursue journalistic ends, but at the end of the day, I’m a cartoonist.”