All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Disclaimer 1: This is a Pre-Review of a show that is taking place Thursday (1/24). Mr. Lif is a fun rapper. Akrobatik is a talented emcee. This may be the key difference between the two, who make up The Perceptionists along with…
[Purchase DVD] Even though the film has been out for just shy of 35 years, I’d only been made particularly aware of it after interviewing H3rwig Maurer of New World Revolution & the Mankind Liberation Front. He’d mentioned it as one of…
Cover of Trans [Purchase CD] “I’m in here.” – Hal Incandenza Trans is quite possibly Neil Young‘s strangest album, and one of the hardest to find; it’s one of the few Neil Young albums that’s out of print in the US. On…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] My curiosity was recently sated when I attended a screening of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street with my dad, who was not at all prepared for what awaited. SPOILERS HEREIN.
Cover of Happy Holidays Since it?s Christmas, it might be a good time to do another one of these hypothetical mixes! Granted, to rustle up all these songs might take a while, but at least you?ll be ready for next year! So,…
I’ve always wanted to liveblog a show. And this might end up being a recurring thing. So here it goes! I’m watching the Monk marathon on USA tonight. I like Monk OK, but I haven’t seen hardly any episodes. So I haven’t…
Cover of Drama [Purchase CD] Yes is one of the big, fat, dumb, lumbering dinosaurs of Progressive Rock. They’re still around, still doing long, drawn out prog-rock numbers with classical influences, sci-fi/fantasy lyrics, and Roger Dean is still painting their album covers,…
As far as I am concerned, one of the worst bands that became inexplicably popular is The Judds. I’ve never been able to tolerate their music — the performances are terrible, the session musicians always sound like they want to die, and…
[Purchase CD] This is the first of what will, hopefully, be a series of reviews of excellent records lost to the mists of time. Some were later found again, like this particular record, the self-titled debut by Polyrock. Polyrock was a post-punk/new…
[Purchase CD] As a fan of the Buggles, Asia, Geoffrey Downes and GTR, I was eager to hear more from the same area of the musical world. I greatly enjoyed Max Bacon’s vocals on the GTR album; he has a fantastic, well-controlled…