Category: Music
The Future Is Now–And That Future Is Austra’s Future Politics
In spite of being a Canadian-based band, there is something decidedly American (or United Statesian, if you want to split hairs) about the way in [Read More…]
Neon Wet Dreams in Cross-Shaped Forms Pervade The Weeknd’s “Party Monster”
Like some new-fangled version of La Dolce Vita (a somewhat grandiose comparison, to be sure), the video for The Weeknd’s “Party Monster”(directed by the equally [Read More…]
Larry Steinbachek’s Death Signals The Demise of An Important Fixture of the Gay Community
When one thinks of Bronski Beat, it is always invariably “Smalltown Boy” that comes to mind. And with it, the video depicting Jimmy Somerville doing [Read More…]
Released on His 70th Birthday, David Bowie’s No Plan Song, Video & EP Offer More Bittersweetness
As many fans still reel from the palpable loss of David Bowie from the music world, Columbia Records has seen fit to release a posthumous [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s Stream of Consciousness In Between Lip Syncing Merely Final Gasp of 2016’s Corpse
Mariah Carey hasn’t truly topped her penchant for theatrics of a lunatic-geared nature since that time in July of 2001 when she made a surprise [Read More…]
Patti Smith Didn’t Need to Turn 70 to Get Wise
Now perhaps billable as “the grandmother of rock n’ roll,” Patti Smith has always possessed a sagacity befitting a much older woman. Her circumspection began [Read More…]
Club Tropicana Is the Real Utopia
A clandestine hideaway in the far reaches of nowhere–sometimes better known as paradise–sounds increasingly impossible to reach in the era that is now. Not just [Read More…]
In Appreciation of Pet Shop Boys’ Christmas EP
There are standard Christmas albums (you know, the kind Michael Bublé sustains his career on) and then there is the Pet Shop Boys’ 2009 EP, [Read More…]
The Albums That Brought A Sparkle of Hope to 2016
Politically and personally, 2016 was unkind to most. But in between the sucker punches and the disenchantment, there was the music that got us through [Read More…]
More Than Anything, Wham!’s “Last Christmas” Video Is About George Michael Suppressing His Contempt for Everyone
“Last Christmas” is a song that means a lot to many people. It’s right up there with–if not sometimes well above–Mariah Carey’s “All I Want [Read More…]
