Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
What Is Love? Clean Bandit Tries Their Best to Answer
With the swelling opener to What Is Love?, “Symphony,” Clean Bandit seems to say, “Don’t worry, we’ve returned.” For yes, it’s somehow been four years since [Read More…]
Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love (With Some You Shouldn’t’ve)” Speaks to Everyone’s Innate Attraction to Tainted Love
As one of many key Manchester bands to form in the late 1970s, Buzzcocks’ sound was one of distinction, melding the frenetic aggravation of punk [Read More…]
Clean Bandit’s “Rockabye” As Lyrically Tamer, More Visually Graphic “What Would You Do?” By City High
Despite the fact that we’re “in the future” there’s quite a bit that somehow seems much tamer than it used to “back in the day” [Read More…]
It Takes Taste to Enter The Avant-Garden
Just a year after releasing her debut, Intro To, the Moroccan-born, Queens-raised Dounia brings us The Avant-Garden, a similarly chilled out, ideal for getting high [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Goes Country–a.k.a. Maintains Her Normal Sound–For Two New Songs Performed at The Ally Coalition Talent Show
Dolly Parton has nothing to worry about in the wake of Lana Del Rey’s performance of two more new tracks written with Jack Antonoff, performed [Read More…]
The Blonde/Brunette Divide As Manifested by Jessica Simpson & Natalie Portman
While Jessica Simpson hasn’t been that adroit at “grabbing headlines” since the height of her early 00s popularity when Nick and Jessica: Newlyweds served as [Read More…]
Roz Chast’s Retrospective at SVA Chelsea Gallery Reminds Us That You Don’t Have to Feel Ashamed About Liking New York
In an era of New York in which it has become increasingly difficult to find anyone left who truly loves, truly appreciates not just what [Read More…]
Lena Dunham Has Officially Made a Career Out of Apologizing, Once Again for Something Obvious
Just when you thought you had heard the last of the “Lena Dunham Apologizes for [insert obvious to everyone else faux pas she made here]” [Read More…]
What Rich People Don’t Realize Is That Servers Have All the Power, Or Pete Davidson’s Custom Playlist
It was said in Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” But, as usual, the bible was wrong, for it [Read More…]
G-Eazy’s Arcane Ability to Get More Attractive Women to Write Songs About Him
In terms of what women have available to them with regard to “straight” “men,” it can perhaps be no grand surprise that, muse-wise, what inspires [Read More…]
