August 25th, 2010
DVD Reviews
DVD/Blu-Ray Tuesday Roundup (August 24th 2010)
It’s Tuesday (well now it’s Wednesday), August 24th (25th) and it’s time for some DVD/Blu-Ray Tuesday (Weds) Roundup! Some of the DVD and Blu-Ray releases coming out today (yesterday) include: Lost The Final Season, The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season, NCIS Season 7, Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season, The Back-up Plan, Time Bandits Blu-Ray and more! Each week I’ll list the latest DVD/Blu-Ray releases and point out the ones worth buying. I can’t review everything I get so this serves as a nice guide for what’s coming out each week. Plus, it’s just fun making fun of movies and TV shows!
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August 24th, 2010
CD Reviews
Gyptian- “Hold You”
Genre: Reggae/R&B/Lover’s Rock
Record Label: VP Records
Gyptian, a Jamaican up and coming artist, who is having a summer success with cross over hit “Hold You” brings his latest with current record “Hold You .” Currently on tour with Nas and Damian Marley in support of his new record, fans cannot get enough of Gyptian. Gyptian’s goal is to make all the ladies of the world “swoon” for his music.
August 23rd, 2010
Live Reviews
English Beat – Webster Hall, NYC
Date: August 21st, 2010
Opening Bands: Bad Manners, Chris Murray
Links: www.myspace.com/officialbeatspace, www.badmannersontour.com/blog
2 February’s ago, English Beat and Bad Manners played in New York City at Irving Plaza and it was an excellent ska show! The bands are currently on tour together, touring select cities throughout the country. I didn’t want to miss out on seeing this spectacular ska show again!
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August 22nd, 2010
CD Reviews
Manicorn – “S/T”
Record Label: S/R
Genre: Experimental
Band Link: www.myspace.com/manicornmusic
Buy on Amazon.com
Quirky, experimental nerd-rock that is shrill and irritating but not without its bizarre charm. It sounds like very early Atom & His Package screeching old Muppet Show ditties in the shower. Come to think of it, it’s quite awful.
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CD Reviews
Thulium – “69″ EP
Record Label: AKA Music / Universal
Genre: Grunge
Band Link: www.myspace.com/thulium69
Buy on Amazon.com
Hideous grunge from the UK that channels the cheesiest aspects of Christian-style nu-metal, and that’s at their best. The riffs are corny and the rhythm section simplistic, but you will immediately recoil from the vocals: the singer does the over-sensitive, singing-in-a-hushed-voice thing, which I had hoped died out with the ‘00s.
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CD Reviews
Panda Riot – “Far & Near” EP
Record Label: S/R
Genre: Shoegaze/Dream Pop
Band Link: www.myspace.com/pandariot
Buy on Amazon.com
*** COOZER PICK ***
Wonderful, unbearably sweet and perfectly constructed dream pop. All the pieces swirl together so nicely – angelic female lead and background vocals; hypnotic, electro-lite-like drumming; honeyed guitar jangle with spurts of well-placed distortion… this 6-track EP is a thing of ethereal beauty.
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August 20th, 2010
DVD Reviews
Bull Durham- Blu Ray + DVD Combo Edition
Starring: Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Robert Wuhl, Trey Wilson
Written By: Ron Shelton
Directed By: Ron Shelton
Studio: MGM/UA
Buy on Amazon.com
America’s favorite pastime, Baseball, is the subject of this 80’s baseball classic about the Minor League system and the players, and one particular local who just loves her Men of Baseball. Bull Durham stars Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy, a local who loves to take a rookie ball player under her wings each year and give them the knowledge she has built over the years. Of course that means sexually too. Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins also star as two members of the Durham Bulls. Costner the veteran of the minor leagues and Tim Robbins as the young hot shot dope of the ball club. A baseball classic that features many funny moments and yet still strikes with the sensitive, romantics out there too.
Music News
RIP: Michael Been (The Call)
Michael Been, vocalist and guitarist of ’80s band The Call (you might know the song “The Walls Came Down” from Real Genius), and father of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Robert Been, passed away today in Belgium, after suffering a heart attack backstage. Been was on tour with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, acting as their sound engineer. He was 60.
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August 19th, 2010
Book Reviews
Xerography Debt #26
Author: Davida Gypsy Breier (Ed.)
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Genre: Review Zine
Pages: 52 pages
My feelings for perzine-reviewing XD haven’t changed from my rambling review of their last issue. Briefly: I get that heartwarming nostalgic feel towards review zines and I’m glad XD is back. On the other hand, their policy of printing only positive reviews weakens their authority and does a disservice to the reader – if everything is good, how do you know what’s REALLY worth your time and money? (Also, not alphabetizing or indexing the reviews remains an irritant.)
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Book Reviews
Al Burian Goes to Hell
Author: Al Burian
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Genre: Mini-Comic
Pages: 82 pages
This comic follows Al Burian as he complains about his life and wallows in existential emptiness. The illustrated vignettes of “my life sucks” is interspersed with passages from Dante’s Inferno, just in case the ridiculous amount of self-pitying was too subtle for you.
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