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Last night I finally attended my first KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show. I’m not sure why they call it that, because no one plays acoustic. I guess it’s a clever joke in the minds of the KROQ people, but whatever. Despite the fact that the...
Marilyn Manson’s new release, a true triumph with strong, resonating indictments of American life, has-
Oh wait, no. No, that review is from ten years ago.
Ba-dum tsh.
After the somewhat somber Eat Me Drink Me, Manson seems determined to prove that...
Given that Charlotte Gainsbourg’s 2006 album 5:55 sounded very much like the product of producer Nigel Godrich and Air, who more or less led the affair, it’s not terribly surprising that her latest, the Beck helmed IRM, sounds a lot like this...
Holy crap, this new 30 Seconds to Mars record is, like, so epic. And not epic in the way Tom Delonge thinks Angels & Airwaves is epic.
Let’s get one thing straight before you read the rest of this review: I fully acknowledge that 30 Seconds to Mars...
I have a love/hate relationship with social networking sites. While they provide the ability to maintain contact with people that you wouldn’t otherwise have contact with, they also seem to become the main method of communicating with people you...
