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Drugs, surfing and more drugs: A Beach Boys Chronicle
Getting started with the Beach Boys.
Saturday, May. 25, 2013
Steve Secular
8 Articles
Everyone’s a critic: Why movies today don’t seem to measure up
As a culture, we have become more literate, more savvy in examining our films or even our television shows.
M. Ward delivers on sophomore album
M. Ward’s latest endeavor, “A Wasteland Companion” (the follow-up to 2009’s “Hold Time”), is everything we’ve come to expect from him in recent years.
New sound for Shins album
I’ve had these songs stuck in my head since the minute I hit “play.”
“Life’s Too Short” underwhelms
Warwick Davis is the weak link in "Life's Too Short."
Remastered U2 album brings new acclaim to a classic
It’s a difficult task to qualify what makes a great album a great one. Over time, it becomes increasingly hard to separate why those older, iconic albums were important in the past from why they’re still relevant in the present. They’ve become so ingrained in history and their relation to that particular context that it...
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album lackluster
"I'm With You," the Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest effort, is not a bad album. It's just, well, not good.
Despite reality fodder, TV enters a “Golden Age”
One only needs to look at the weekly lineups of MTV or VH1 to see that we are in a new era of television.
8 Articles
Everyone’s a critic: Why movies today don’t seem to measure up
As a culture, we have become more literate, more savvy in examining our films or even our television shows.
M. Ward delivers on sophomore album
M. Ward’s latest endeavor, “A Wasteland Companion” (the follow-up to 2009’s “Hold Time”), is everything we’ve come to expect from him in recent years.
New sound for Shins album
I’ve had these songs stuck in my head since the minute I hit “play.”
“Life’s Too Short” underwhelms
Warwick Davis is the weak link in "Life's Too Short."
Remastered U2 album brings new acclaim to a classic
It’s a difficult task to qualify what makes a great album a great one. Over time, it becomes increasingly hard to separate why those older, iconic albums were important in the past from why they’re still relevant in the present. They’ve become so ingrained in history and their relation to that particular context that it...
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album lackluster
"I'm With You," the Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest effort, is not a bad album. It's just, well, not good.
Despite reality fodder, TV enters a “Golden Age”
One only needs to look at the weekly lineups of MTV or VH1 to see that we are in a new era of television.