Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Humanz Solidifies Gorillaz’s Superhuman Knack for Collaboration
At the beginning of Gorillaz, the song that put them on the map, particularly in Europe, was “Clint Eastwood” featuring Del the Funky Homosapien, setting [Read More…]
Celebrity-Backed Scholarships & Beyoncé: A Testament To The Direness of Affording Higher Education in America
It’s a bit weird, you know, when a celebrity needs to get involved in causes outside of self-promotion, particularly education. But that’s precisely what Beyoncé has [Read More…]
Karma Isn’t Always Helpful to the Person It Needs To Be: Dr. Luke Gets Shafted By Sony
It’s only taken roughly three years since Kesha first filed suit against Dr. Luke for Sony Entertainment to get the message that this, sure, hit-making [Read More…]
Seeking A “Real High,” Nite Jewel Takes Us on an Ambient, Trippy Journey in Latest Video
Ramona Gonzalez a.k.a. Nite Jewel has been rather prolific of late, following up 2016’s Liquid Cool with her upcoming fourth album, Real High. The eponymous [Read More…]
There Was Already A Gloriously Trashy TV Movie About Madonna’s Early Days So What Are We Doing With Blond Ambition From Universal?
Though it may have been low-budget and low-caliber acting, much of the frequently forgotten about 1994 TV movie, Madonna: Innocence Lost (which aired on Fox, [Read More…]
2D Was Kidnapped Into the Band, Got His Jeans from Simon Cowell & Other Revelations From the First “Live” Gorillaz Interview
Interviewed by Radio 1’s MistaJam for the album that keeps slowly revealing its tracks like bread crumbs, Gorillaz offered the music industry yet another historic [Read More…]
Rachael Leigh Cook Leaves Behind the 90s, Acts As White Apologist for Kendall Jenner With Revamped “Your Brain On Drugs” Commercial
Rachael Leigh Cook’s epochal anti-drug commercial, released in 1997 (before her pinnacle role as Laney Boggs in 1999’s She’s All That), was telling of a moment [Read More…]
Lana’s Latest Single, “Lust For Life,” Acts As An Auditory Sequel to Born to Die’s “Without You”
As the buildup to the summer of Lana Del Rey persists, it’s only natural that the witchy one should give us another new sampling from [Read More…]
After the Storm: Grown-ups Can’t Live on Love Alone
“Why did my life turn out like this?” This is the question ruefully (yet acceptingly) posed by one of the subjects Ryôta Shinoda (Hiroshi Abe) corners [Read More…]
Are You Human or A Dud?: Ghost in the Shell
“We cling to our memories as though they define us. But it’s our actions that define us.” So regurgitates Mira Killian a.k.a. Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett [Read More…]
