Alternative music, cult films, and pop culture explored through a Gen X lens — with reviews, interviews, and a deep-dive podcast.
Coachella officially release their 2013 lineup and it’s as impressively diverse as past rosters. The California festival will be quite Brit heavy; headliners will include Brit-pop legends Blur, Manchester band The Stone Roses, and other English acts include The XX and New Order (check out my recent reviews of The XX’s Coexist and New Order’s Lost Sirens of both […]
Hello and welcome to Part 2 of the 25 Weirdest Kids shows of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s! Before continuing, make sure you’ve read Part One so you can see installments 25-17. And after you finish, click here to read Part 3 If you dare to revisit any of these fever dreams, I’ll have Amazon […]
Sold! The 1966 Batmobile goes for a cool 4.62 million at an Arizona Auction… In the history of awesome movie cars, the original 1966 Batmobile can’t be beat. It looks just as cool as it did during the heyday of the Adam West TV show. And while Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler is an awesome reinvention of the […]
Take a journey back into time for the 25 Weirdest Kid Television Shows of the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s…. This is Part One in A Three Part Series, click here to read Part 2. Kids today will probably grow up and recall Yo Gabba Gabba as the weirdest and coolest kid show of their generation […]
Frankenweenie Review: Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie Gets An Undead Lease On Life on Blu-ray, with stellar results. [rating=4] Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie was a box office disappointment. That’s unfortunate, as it’s Burton’s best movie since Ed Wood (Which was sadly also a box office flop upon it’s release). Perhaps it’s the black and white cinematography or out of […]
Lost Sirens, New Order’s long-awaited release of unused tracks from 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call is finally here. Was it worth the wait? Rating: [rating=4] The members of New Order have been busy bees; the band recently toured the U.S. (which I was lucky enough to see), and former bassist and band co-founder Peter Hook […]
Tarantino Unchained: Commentary on Quentin Tarantino’s rant in recent British TV interview. Quentin Tarantino is a director known for gleeful excess. He has never shied away from violence, explosive dialogue, and the controversy that follows. But it seems amplified with his latest movie Django Unchained. It’s a fever dream that only he could deliver, a […]
This is the 2nd installment of SLIS’s 60 Best Cover Songs Of All Time. Click here for entries 60 through 20. I’ll have an iTunes playlist at the bottom if you like to preview or buy any of these songs for your collection. Off we go: 19. The Man Next Door-Massive Attack John Holt’s […]
Check out our list of the Best Cover Songs Of All Time… A good cover song should do one of four things: (1) radically change the song structure to bring new life to the tune. (2) strip the song structure to its basic elements to showcase the raw components that make the song compelling. (3) […]
Today is David Bowie’s Birthday. And the now 66-year-old rock legend decided to give rather than receive, releasing his first new song in 10 years. The single Where Are You Now can be heard below, and in typical Bowie style, it has an odd video to accompany it. UPDATE: video has been taken away from US […]
