Writer, actor, comedian, and, as his alter-ego Childish Gambino, musician, Donald Glover is an industry quadruple threat. His fourth album and his first commercial release, Camp, is intensely personal but wholly relatable. Continue reading
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Singer-songwriter Feist played at Chicago’s Riviera Theater on November 4. Never before have I been to a concert that made me want to fall asleep until this one. Despite being a little tired from the week, I was ready to rock.
In every other concert I’ve been to the headliner usually comes out with one of their faster songs to get the crowd ready to jam out for the next hour or so. Not so with Feist. She played a slow song followed by another slow song and then another and another and it went on like that for the next 45 minutes until she played “My Moon, My Man” from her 2007 album The Reminder. Standing in the middle of the middle level would seem like an ideal place to take advantage of a venues acoustics, but this was not so with this concert. Continue reading
There is a theory being floated that the major labels are in collusion about the fate of the compact disc. If the rumors are to be believed 2012 will see the end of the CD and maybe the end of the world, though the two seem unrelated. Continue reading
Yeah bitches, I’m back. Let’s stroll back to the time of the ancestors and do some old-school college radio. All praises to Raptor Jesus for that first REM record. Bots and Bens, video #3 is for you. Continue reading
You know how Christian fundamentalists are always going on about how Halloween is an evil pagan holiday that glorifies Satan and tempts children toward the path of eternal damnation? The usual response from, you know, normal people is to be like “chill out, it’s just an excuse for kids to dress up and extort some candy from old people.” But my questions is: why would you want to deny Halloween’s badass nature? I mean, sure, we have a day honoring zombie resurrection, and a day that celebrates slaughtering a bunch of people and taking their land. But Halloween is the only holiday that’s based on an ancient festival named after Glenn Danzig’s second-coolest band and that encourages girls to dress up like slutty witches (who, as we know, were all about kinky devil sex). So the fundamentalists are actually right on this one: Halloween is evil, Satanic, and totally freaking awesome. Show our religious friends you agree by blasting these songs as loud as you can, preferably near a church.
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Happy Halloween weekend! Ghosts, goblins, zombies, and sexy watermelons are what you dress up as, but what music gets you in the mood to scare or be scared?
Spotted on A.V. Club. Cannot be unseen. NSFW.
Miss Wanda Jackson, The Queen of Rockabilly, turns 74 today. Join me after the jump for a Crasstalk celebration of Wanda, her music, and her legacy.
Come hit the club with us. Ladies free before 11. No jeans or caps. Mature and Sexy only! Continue reading
As many of you know The Grand Inquisitor used to be a rocker girl in a previous, more fun life. This makes her think she is some kind of expert on girls who rock and so she is offering up this little list for your consideration. Note: the list does not contain hip-hop artists because I am not enough of a fan to do a proper list. I also excluded soul and dance music and stuck to the girls who like it harder because that is what The Grand Inquisitor knows and loves. However, here are ten rocker babes that you should have in your music collection. This isn’t exhaustive and is in no particular order. Continue reading