Archive for category: Music
- “Kingdom of Rain” (2013.05.12)
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Matt Johnson regards the World Trade Center
- Macklemorism (2013.05.02)
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Macklemore is quite lovely and deserves to be a star
- Bowie/Barnbrook (2013.01.09)
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Compare and contrast: David Bowie, “The Next Day”; R.E.M., Out of Time
- Virtualized backup singers (2013.01.04)
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The Pet Shop Boys have virtualized the backup singer
- ‘That’s the act’ (2012.09.17)
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“The guy on keyboards who doesn’t smile and the singer who looks a bit uncomfortable…. That’s the act”
- ‘Society’s phony love affair with nature’ (2012.09.15)
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Jude Law, Breaking and Entering: “It starts with an argument with society’s phony love affair with nature. We are against the mistaking of grass for nature, of green for nature”
- “Jackie” (2012.09.03)
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Name two male singers who could and plausibly would cover “Jackie” (updated)
- Nicolas Winding Refn vs. Pet Shop Boys vs. Ryan Gosling (2011.08.05)
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‘Because I did meet with the Pet Shop Boys about doing the music afterwards, but their attitude was like “You can’t afford us, baby” ’