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Hail, hail: black nerd icon Janelle Monáe’s new album of sound and vision, Dirty Computer, is out. It’s dope, and different. It’s the freest...
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Hail, hail: black nerd icon Janelle Monáe’s new album of sound and vision, Dirty Computer, is out. It’s dope, and different. It’s the freest...
When “Record Store Day” started in 2008, it was merely a beacon of awareness for independent record stores. Keep in mind, this was two...
Because Halloween is every day, I’m always on the look out for spooky, melancholy, or just plain crazy tunes to add to my ULTIMATE...
Whether its the retro-cool factor or collector’s choice, you can’t deny the shelf-worthy appeal of physical music recordings. True audiophiles and die-hard music geeks...
There are many nerd types out there and I bet that most of them are not viewed as nerds by the vast majority of...
The music business has changed so much in the past few years that there is a huge gap between what was thought of as...
Donald Glover is on one hell of a roll. Not only did he release the wonderful TV series Atlanta, which did so well that...
I was planning to write a movie geek Spasm, but my head is still spinning from the recent events that have made our world...
As we come to the close of 2016, I remain shell-shocked by the divisive presidential election and its aftermath. In the world of cinema,...
[youtube id=”oJeDQYlpBp0″] Thanks to FOG! for giving me the chance to share some of the behind the scenes on the production of the music...
Produced by Pamela Lubell Written and Directed by Brendan Toller Starring Danny Fields, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Tommy Ramone, Jonathan Richman, Jac Holzman, Judy...
Where is my mind? These days, often not in the best place. Not after America’s week from hell, in which black men Alton Sterling...
How can it be a week without Prince alive on this planet? Maybe he’s still alive on some other planet, gone to some purple...
A few years ago, in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, my nerd-pop culture mind...
It’s the 2016 Grammy Awards! I had a show during this broadcast, so I asked my wonderful friend Claire to DVR it for me....
Written by DJ Crystal Clear It’s 1986, and I’m working at Tower Sunset (For all you kids out there, I’m talking about the world...
These past couple of weeks, more than usual, have been about music. So much music. For me, it’s inevitable come January. After five weeks...
Written by Erin Maxwell On January 10, David Bowie left the world as he came in: on a comet filled with glittery spiders playing...
Written by Sharon Knolle Christmas songs are usually cheerful little numbers, about Santa Claus coming to town or chestnuts roasting on an open fire....
Review by Joe Yezukevich Produced by Sean M. Stuart, Glen Zipper, Nicholas Ferrall Written by Steven Leckart Directed by Colin Hanks Featuring Russ Solomon,...
Those fingers in my hair, that sly come-hither stare, that strips my conscience bare, it’s witchcraft. That’s how the song “Witchcraft” goes, as Frank...
The release of the 24th James Bond epic SPECTRE is just around the corner, and the theme song “Writing’s On The Wall” by Sam...
It all began when Erik Didriksen stumbled upon a Shakespearian sonnet based on Macklemore’s hit song “Thrift Shop.” He was struck by the cleverness...
Today, I want to talk a bit about pop culture irony. Not irony in pop culture, which we’ve long had enough of. But ironic...