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The EditoriaList: Top Eight Music Video Fight Scenes

posted: October 6, 2011

Our wonderful Managing Editor Alison is dangerously obsessed with violence and, I hear, is actually in an underground fight club, though she doesn’t talk about that. One day she suggested to me that I do…
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Sound And Vision: Celebrity Feuds — Pop Is a Battlefield, World War II

posted: September 9, 2011

“Take back Vanessa Redgrave Take back Joe Piscopo Take back Eddie Murphy Give ’em all some place to go” ” Tom Petty, “Jammin’ Me” (1987) “Fuck Tom Petty!””Eddie Murphy Oh, those crazy stars! What will…
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

posted: August 11, 2011

You’re too pretty to hide behind the camera, Justin Timberlake. Dress like Amy Winehouse. Rihanna too sexual? You don’t say. Ladies, start your engines. New Ryan Adams is on its way. That’s a lot of…
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Kings Of Leon Royally Screw Over Their Fans

posted: August 9, 2011

The show started off well, fans laughing with the lead singer of Kings Of Leon, who were playing to a large crowd in Dallas, TX as a part of the US leg of their international…
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88 MPH: The Legacy of the "Be My Baby" Drum Beat

posted: July 29, 2011

The final minutes of Sofia Coppola’s indie tearjerker Lost in Translation contain a surefire formula for clearing out the Kleenex box. As Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson share their teary goodbye, a nostalgic, reverb-laden drum pattern…
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Sound And Vision: Why I Miss the '90s

posted: July 1, 2011

Every decade lives twice. Each one seems to get a second shot about twenty years after the fact. The ’50s were hot again in the ’70s (which might be why Happy Days was one of…
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