Piggybacking off of our last episode, in which Mike Cunningham The Packet Man jokingly stated that he was the leader of the Pittsburgh chapter of the NAACP, we ( Big Money, Dr. Z , Michael Parr and The Packet Man) decided to do a podcast about cultural appropriation. This is definitely more of a circular discussion (with no real conclusion) than many of our other podcasts, but it’s an interesting discussion. Some highlights: -We discuss what made us finally decide to pull the trigger on this discussion, with a special […]
Posts tagged "The Rolling Stones"
20 Feet from Stardom: Movie Review
You know their voices, but probably not their names. Check out our review of the new documentary “20 Feet from Stardom.”
bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Nine
We’re in crunchtime on our best of the ’70s list! Mick and Keef have a few things to say to you, though.
So You Want to Be a Music Critic: An Insider’s Guide
I started doing album reviews for Cavalier magazine back in the summer of ’66, my first being a review of Velvet Underground and Nico’s Banana Album, written in the form of a brief adventure story about a man whose plane crashes in the woods, who fights off a boar with an Italian penny loafer. The buxom blonde he hoists into the sunset is supposed to be emblematic of Nico’s contributions, though how exactly I can’t remember. You know what they say […]
New Release Report 4/26/11: Explosions in the Aisles!
Welcome to the potpourri edition of the New Release Report, where we have new music coming out from artists in pretty much every genre conceivable! If you like your rock and roll grandiose and epic, you might want to give the new one from Explosions in the Sky a shot. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care just might be the Texas band’s American breakthrough. They’ve received some great press (and some notice in the UK), but they haven’t quite caught […]
Another Crazy VH-1 List: The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
My first thought upon hearing that VH-1 was compiling a list of the 100 Greatest Artists of all time was: how does one even begin to compile such a list? It’s not easy to quantify exactly what makes a great artist. Is it raw talent? Is it an eye for reinvention? Is it work that revolutionizes the artist’s milieu? The thought of taking the time to compile one of these lists myself makes my head explode. Nevertheless, on 9/6, the […]