2010s

Imagine, if you will, that you have a soul. A tangible soul that you can actually touch, full of tenderness and joy and sweet delicious sorrow...all of 'the feels' as the kids today say. Now imagine having that soul pulled out of your body and inviting a gang of football hooligans to stamp on it for 41 minutes and 34 seconds. That is the experience of listening to Mount Eerie's 'A Crow Looked At Me'.  There have been several albums made about death, particularly around the m

Prior to the release of this album, art-rock whizz kids Everything Everything had certainly shown some promise on the indie scene but threatened to fall into the mire of decent-but-never-great bands that were, for a while, the order of the day.  Their first effort 'Man Alive' was a band finding it's feet. Their next release, 'Arc' showed a giant step forward in terms of songwriting ability and spawned classic weirdo anthems like 'Kemosabe' and 'Cough Cough'. Then came the mo

Politics has always been a tricky subject to represent in a meaningful way. The problem is, by and large, that the subjects involved are almost beyond portrayal a lot of the time, such is the vacuous, used car salesman veneer of most politicians on the entire planet. How do you tell stories about non-people pretending to be people? The best efforts are often satirical (2009's 'In The Loop' being a fine example) or overly-glossy and not realistic (any episode of 'The West Wing

Depending on your point of view, Marvel films are either the best or the worst thing to happen to cinema. Personally, I lean towards the latter. Some might even go so far as to say that I'd rather watch my bare feet being slowly consumed by gnawing rodents than watch most of them, but who's to say. To me they all seem formulaic to the point of abject boredom. A manifestation of what is considered art for the iPhone generation. Every release seemed to quite obviously follow th

To give fair warning, this review may turn into somewhat of a self-meditation or, more accurately, a psycho-analytical breakdown of my own personality. Because, in attempting to correctly surmise how loathsome this TV series is, I am continually faced with the existential question of 'why am I still watching it?!' Is there something deep in my psyche that somehow enjoys self-flagellation? Is it being a child of divorce, wherein my inner infant thinks that the disintegration o

You may or may not of heard of Bobbito Garcia and DJ Stretch Armstrong, but if you were in New York City, or in any way involved in Hip Hop in the early 1990s their names were two of the most important in the game. During this time, their radio show was probably the single most vital showcase in the industry. Such was the prestige around it that an appearance on this platform alone could make or break your career. Almost every single one of your favorite artists came throug

Even the most futuristic thinking tech forward people in the world must surely have that gnawing feeling that somehow what we're experiencing in the information age is leaving us all dumb and doomed?