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ACCUSATION: Hollywood-hokey. DEFENSE: And I will always love it. I bet if you poll a hundred people right now what they thought about when...
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ACCUSATION: Hollywood-hokey. DEFENSE: And I will always love it. I bet if you poll a hundred people right now what they thought about when...
Don Cornelius, the creator, producer and host of the television series, Soul Train from 1971 until 1993 has passed away, the result of a...
The true story of Mingering Mike is as unbelievable and gloriously happily, as it is also sadly believable and poignantly bittersweet. For a period...
After working Christmas weekend, I took a few days off to ring in 2012 in my hometown Philadelphia. My fiancee and I packed four...
Ahhh…. The Christmas/Holiday/Soltice Season. A season of warmth and gentleness in the midst of an otherwise cold and dreary winter. A time to celebrate...
This week I picked up 50 Words For Snow, the latest record from Kate Bush, music’s dream queen. It’s more a collection of song-poems...
I was midway through High School when my Early Civilization teacher Mr. McCreedy recommended I watch Ken Russell’s Rock Opera Tommy. I’m sure it...
The documentary Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon streets November 1st and covers his life and death. It looks fairly fascinating as it...
It’s a cliché, but I don’t care. I really love this time of year. I love the dying trees, the cooler air, the apple...
Hello friends! Right now I’m watching the last episode of Rescue Me. I was going to write a RANT about it (no complaints –...
Next week, the awesome Muppet cover album, The Green Album, will be released. The album includes the following songs/artists: OK Go: “Muppet Show Theme”...
The schedule for video game releases is as fast and constant as comic book title releases. Because of this, it becomes difficult to try...
Maybe it’s me, but despite finding several of the Black Eyed Peas’ songs entertaining, the group is pretty ridiculous. I don’t even know what...
One of the absolute best singer/songwriters in the known universe is an awesome indie artist named Bess Rogers. If you’ve heard of her –...
There aren’t a lot of words to be write in the final installment of this series. Fortunately, I’ve only heard the sampler once. I...
You probably noticed that my cute Blerd Vision bug has Raj from What’s Happening!! in it. FOG! editor-in-chief Stefan picked it out for me,...
In his 2005 film Broken Flowers, Director Jim Jarmusch once again made an intriguing, talked about, little gem of an art house film. This...
Paul Mawhinney and The World’s Largest Record Collection Directed by Sean Dunne, The Archive is an amazing film and definitely captures the collector’s mentality...
ACCUSATION: Outdated fluff. DEFENSE: What a feeling! Let’s get the undebatable out of the way first. Time has not been kind to Flashdance (1983,...
I still can hear the roaring crowds. The fist-pumping, shoulder-grabbing people – rushing to cheer, congratulate, even join in. When you sing Journey’s “Separate...
In the latest installment of When Sampling Goes Wrong, we take a bit of a turn. This is not the usual example of a...
There might be no better measure of a pop artist’s influence than to be parodied by Weird Al Yankovic. Yet, Lady Gaga turned down...
What is Record Store Day? It is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate...
Sampling has been an integral part of hip-hop since it’s beginning. This controversial practice has been viewed as stealing and unoriginal, an early position...