Archive for category: Music

Non-dirge    (2019.01.05)

“Popcorn” (S. Page) v. “Teenage Kicks” (J. Peel)

‘Mind Bomb’ revisited    (2015.02.16)

Matt Johnson’s the The’s Mind Bomb 25 years on

“Youngman”    (2014.09.19)

John Rechy: “YMCA” begins with “youngman” from City of Night

“Kingdom of Rain”    (2013.05.12)

Matt Johnson regards the World Trade Center

Macklemorism    (2013.05.02)

Macklemore is quite lovely and deserves to be a star

Bowie/Barnbrook    (2013.01.09)

Compare and contrast: David Bowie, “The Next Day”; R.E.M., Out of Time

Virtualized backup singers    (2013.01.04)

The Pet Shop Boys have virtualized the backup singer

‘That’s the act’    (2012.09.17)

“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)

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”