Reviews
He could surpass Sublime. Dub FX deserves to take the world by storm.
So the first time I see Australian Ben Stanford, aka Dub FX, perform I’m sitting in a darkened basement and StumbleUpon is dragging its internet-hoe in sad memetic trenches along the seafloor of Youtube and he has appeared amidst several extreme America’s Funniest Home Videos rejects. He is nearly stumbled away from, but his talent [...]
Teddy Faley - Apple Juice
My memories involving Teddy Faley are of scattered brief encounters. Nine years ago Teddy’s in his darkened bedroom at his parents’ house experimenting with a sequencer; building beats. A year later I’m at a park and one of Teddy’s friends is attempting to chop a bee in half with a samurai sword like it’s normal. [...]
I Love Demos.
Art appreciation for me is a pendulum of attention which swings between the puppeteer and the puppets. I love shows, lights, smoke and sound just as much as anyone else, but I also love getting inside the head of the artist. That’s why I love demos. A demo of a song will show you what [...]
Anatomy of Bad Reviews; Anatomy of Good Reviews
The biggest mistake most album reviewers make is to forget their audience. Bad reviewers treat each article as an opportunity to spout ego rather than enlighten the reader as to what kind of experience the album provides. Whether this involves showing off their supposed humor, intelligence, or superiority is irrelevant. This is useless to the [...]
Should you let Transsiberian Transsiberian you?
Tonight, Daniel and I watched Transsiberian. The film has a rating of 90 tomatoes, and this is because the film makes absolutely sure to lose no one while still conveying a complicated human emotion via story. The complicated emotion from which this entire film was produced can only be described in this way:
Is there a [...]
