Monday, September 29, 2008
Silverchair - Young Modern (2007)
Rock / Pop / Chamber Pop
A far cry from the derivative grunge of their teenage years, the grown-up chamber pop of Young Modern solidifies Silverchair as the biggest modern pop/rock band to make such a Beatlesesque transformation.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ryan Gosling = Kurt Cobain?
Courtney Love wants the guy from The Notebook to play Kurt Cobain in a new movie based on Heavier Than Heaven, the Love-endorsed Cobain biography by Charles Cross. Maybe my inability to see Ryan Gosling playing anyone but Noah Calhoun has colored my initial reaction: what the hell.
After further review, I guess I could see [...]
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Last Days (2005)
Terrible beyond words
Released May 13, 2005
Written and directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Kim Gordon
It honestly baffles me the sheer number of folks who see artistic merit in creating a film based on the concept of following someone walking around in agonizingly pointless near-silence. This is the [...]
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Local H - Pack Up the Cats (1998)
Siamese Dream
All-Right (Oh, Yeah)
“Cha!” Said the Kitty
Lucky
Hit the Skids or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rock
500,000 Scovilles
What Can I Tell You
Fine and Good
Lead Pipe Cinch
Cool Magnet
She Hates My Job
Stoney
Laminate Man
All the Kids Are Right
Deep Cut
Lucky Time
“The soundtrack of youthful aggression.” That’s rock music right there, and if a story of meteoric [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (1995)
Rock / Pop / Alternative
Written and performed almost entirely by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters debut is classic grunge-pop with Grohl’s sonic signature all over it.
