We will be reviewing anything that we find interesting from the present, the past or even the future, including films, bands, art, and literature.

We will be reviewing anything that we find interesting from the present, the past or even the future, including films, bands, art, and literature.

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Where’s the Love for Utopia?

by Jay Hood August 20, 2013

Go to a movie theater, bookstore or other location that dishes out the pop culture and do your best to avoid anything dystopian. You can’t. The Hunger Games filled the shelves at the bookstore for several years only to be spun off into movies. And The Hunger Games spawned a myriad of similar novels. Elysium […]

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Black Sabbath: 13 – A Review

by Sean Koepenick August 6, 2013

So by now everyone knows the back story on the making of this new record. First Sabbath disc with Ozzy in 35 years. First record with Ozzy on vocals that does not have Bill Ward on drums as well. But really all we need to know is if this is better than the last record […]

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Let’s Go See Widespread In Vegas, Shall We?

by Shannon Murfree July 30, 2013

That’s Widespread Mutha’ F*ing Panic to be exact! By far my favorite band to see live, I’ve been going to their shows since 1991 when they would play small clubs on the east coast, mainly for the jam band early adopter, post Grateful Dead, college crowd. If you were to divide my musical tongue into sectors, […]

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Ray Donovan Is the Best New Show on TV

by Tony Shea July 28, 2013

As a typical rule of thumb, I’m an HBO man rather than a Showtime one. The look and feel of HBO shows like Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, and True Blood is more to my taste – shinier, funnier, and generally more fun than their counterparts on Showtime, which tend to have an inherent darkness […]

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AC/DC’s Back in Black Turns 33

by Tony Shea July 25, 2013

AC/DC’s album Back in Black is now 33 years old – a nice responsible age when people are ready to settle down, have a few kids and get a family pet, maybe a nice collie or a chocolate lab. But Back in Black doesn’t care about middle age comforts, remaining forever like a pair of […]

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His Aim Is Still True (Elvis Costello’s New Release)

by Tony Shea July 24, 2013

This week marks the anniversary of the release of Elvis Costello’s first album, as well as his new collaboration with The Roots. This week marks the 36th anniversary of the release of Elvis Costello’s landmark album My Aim is True. Long regarded as one of the great debut albums in music history (Rolling Stone ranked […]

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Why True Blood Sucks, or Doesn’t Suck, or Does…

by Tony Shea July 16, 2013

It was announced yesterday that True Blood will be back on HBO for a 7th season. I’ve watched every episode of True Blood so far. Wait, I forgot I missed some episodes in season three. And maybe some in season five. But wait, I watched them over that long weekend, remember? But wait, I forgot […]

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Game of Thrones Rules

by Tony Shea June 10, 2013

I have not read any of the books in George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. I have not read any of them because they are like cropped phone books, a thousand pages long, set in four point type. I figure it will take about a semester to read one of them, which is to […]

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Happy Birthday Curtis Mayfield!!

by Shannon Murfree June 4, 2013

I know what you’re thinking. This chick can’t get out of the past when it comes to music. I am a nostalgic being by nature. I love music that makes me remember a certain time in my life, happy or sad. Curtis Mayfield is one of those artists that I forgot about until I heard […]

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ART VS ART – Heroes and Villains – Celine’ vs. Johnny Rotten

by Tony Shea June 3, 2013

Memorial Day this year coincided with two milestone dates of interest, the birth of famed French novelist Celine, and the 36th year anniversary of the Sex Pistols release of their magnum album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols were, of course, fronted by Johnny Rotten setting up this edition of […]

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Me and Ray Manzarek – RIP

by Richard B. Phillips May 22, 2013

I was seven years old when I first discovered The Doors. I was visiting my sister’s new house in Bethesda, Maryland one summer. I was with my parents. I was bored and had nothing to do so I poked around through her cassette collection that was still in boxes from when she moved in. And […]

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Combat Rock Turns 30

by Tony Shea May 18, 2013

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Clash’s fifth album, Combat Rock. Ranked #28 in Rolling Stone’s 2004 issue of Greatest Artist of all Time, the Clash was a stunningly original band that begin with a pure punk style and elevated the form into something that was a unique genre unto […]

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Me and F. Scott Fitz

by Tony Shea May 16, 2013

Director, Baz Lurhman’s new filmed version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, is in theaters and it’s been generating some heated reviews which have criticized the film for taking liberties with the original source material and having a style over substance approach. I wondered what ole’ F. Scott Fitz had to say […]

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