November brought with it attempts to refresh or refurbish several major characters.  How did it turn out? 1.  Spider-Man. Brand New Day is over, Big Time has begun and . . . Big Time is, so far, more brand new than BND ever was. Finally, Peter Parker’s brilliant mind (and Spider-Man’s, for that matter) is [...]

I dig this EP.  A lot.  And the price is right.  Indie rock meets drum and bass, with a great vocal track and some really creepy music.  Kinda like The Cult but with less metal. In other words, Brick and Mortar is pretty druggy. Backwards Clock http://player.groovebat.com/player.swf Get the EP free here.

I wish I’d thought of this last month….It’s what zombies do on Halloween.

I’ve never really gotten the whole Keane thing, but I might start now.  Bandmembers Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin’s alt-country side project Mt. Desolation feels as authentic as any English Americana band possibly can.  Playing along with members of Noah & The Whale, The Killers, The Long Winters, and Mumford and Sons, with production by [...]

Surely one of the most important actors of my childhood. And don’t call him Shirley.

Comic book fans rejoice!  Next year is gonna explode, starting as early as April.  In addition to non-comic book flicks like The Hangover 2, we’re in for an amazing year.  By which I mean amazingly good or amazingly disappointing. TOP TEN COMIC BOOK MOVIES COMING IN 2011 10.  Smurfs 3-D.  The “3-D” makes me nervous, [...]

Adrian Champion “reimagines” the White Stripes here. Basically, this means he mashes the blues duo with guys like Jay-Z, Nas, OutKast, Mos Def, Biggie, Pac, and more. Neat stuff. Cover Me has covers of every song on Springsteen’s Darkness at the Edge of Town record. Go here. Jeff’s got a round-table review on Kanye’s My [...]

A little something to be thankful for . . . WU TANG VS. BOOT CAMP–WHO’S BETTER? What a great idea for a mixtape:  DJ Drop compares cuts by Staten Island’s finest Clan and Brooklyn’s best (but less famous) Camp.  And he doesn’t just pick the songs you already know–he digs deeper into the archive, to [...]