Now Take Them Out, Devils Playlist #3: S.A.D.
It’s the inevitable consequence of living in the Greatest City in the World™: as the skies turn an adjectiveless gray, the trees stripped to their slender bones, and night falls faster than Gerald...
View ArticleArtistic Ambition & Corporate Callousness in Sean Howe’s ‘Marvel Comics: The...
The history of the American comic book is bittersweet, if not outright tragic, and no tale cuts to the bone quite like the ballad of Stan and Jack. In the early ’60s, facing the demise of their...
View ArticleNow Take Them Out, Devils: My Bloody Valentine Released First Album in 22...
Last Saturday, while the Internet was busy minding its own business, the My Bloody Valentine Facebook page issued this short missive: “We are preparing to go live with the new album/website this...
View ArticleNow Take Them Out, Devils: Beck Wrangles Over 160 Musicians for Maximalist...
Since the release of 2008′s astoundingly mediocre Modern Guilt, Beck has all but stepped away from conventional rockstardom. He’s spent the past few years on idiosyncratic projects like the Record...
View ArticleNow Take Them Out, Devils: The Marriage of Music & Narrative in the Video...
Recently, when I’m not performing diligent research, sifting through a hard drive’s worth of mp3s, resting my chin in my hands contemplatively and having deep deep thoughts about pop songs for you...
View ArticleNow Take Them Out, Devils: The Next Day Introduces Bowie, The Mortal (Part 1)
On the first of March it was announced that The Next Day, the first new David Bowie album in ten years, could be streamed in full on iTunes, a week and a half before the record’s actual U.S. release....
View ArticleNow Take Them Out, Devils: The Next Day Introduces Bowie, The Mortal (Part 2)
Missed part one? Read it here. When The Next Day was announced on Bowie’s 66th birthday, I had long since given up any hope of hearing new material. It was as if a limb I had amputated years ago had...
View ArticleNow Take Them Out, Devils: Caitlin Rose &“Except Rap & Country”
“I like everything except Rap and Country.” God, is there a more phrase as simultaneously innocuous and incendiary as that one? It’s the pop music equivalent of “I’m not racist, but…;” a phrase oft...
View ArticleNTTOD Playlist #4: The Dark Side of Lite FM
First of all, credit where credit ‘s due: the Dark Side of Lite FM is the brainbaby of my friend Edward Julian O’Hara Bonilla. Dude is a pop music genius the likes of which has only graced this...
View ArticleNow Take Them Out Devils’ Contenders for Summer Album of 2013
Every May, they start trickling out: the self-proclaimed Summer Albums. They’re the blockbuster popcorn flicks of the music world; flashy, catchy, accessible and widely discussed. In a way, being...
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