This piece is split into three parts (Part 2 is here, Final Comments are here), and was written for the Critical Distance Blogs of the Round Table. Introduction Some people read Playboy for the ‘articles’. Some people watch films for the celebrity …
This review can also be found at The Yorker. I caught Gym Class Heroes with their second album, As Cruel as School Children, and it worked out well for my 15 year old self. It took a stance just on the fringe …
This review can also be found at The Yorker (whoops, I overlooked mirroring this one…) It’s been a while since I listened to an album with honestly interesting sampling. One of the things I love about hip-hop (and music inspired by such) …
I wrote this as promo copy for a musical friend of mine, Patient Zero, the album’s fully open to the public now, so go check it out! http://patientzero.bandcamp.com/http://www.youtube.com/user/artistk Many may know Patient Zero from his collaboration with the Internet video group the …
This review can be found at The Yorker, here. I initially found out about Metric though the film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, where they composed one of the many guest songs (the film is, in part, about Canadian indie bands, after …
Introduction While the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is generally lauded as the yearly platform for games publishers to announce their major products, among the journalists and fans that attend and observe every year, there’s a general air of scepticism as to whether …
This article can also be found (with additional entries by other writers) at The Yorker, here. It can sometimes feel that soundtrack composers don’t get a lot of credit. Unlike with the general music industry, there’s comparatively little focus paid to those …
This article can also be found on PixelxCore, here. Introduction It’s been quite a few years since Final Fantasy XIII was released. It was a big moment for Square Enix – their flagship series was entering the next generation of consoles; and …
This is a partial version of a feature found at The Yorker, here. StooShe are very much an amalgamation of pop culture from a very specific subculture. Their name derived from the slang term ‘stush’ meaning ‘an air of superiority’; and in …
This article can also be found at The Yorker, here.I’m all for more queer-themed films. Not just because I’m one of those filthy heathen LGBTQ types, but because there’s scope for more stories to be told than common blockbuster archetypes; or failing …
This review can also be found at The Yorker, here. In terms of image, at least, I like Labrinth. he’s adorkable. His most salient single, ‘Earthquake’ is something that everyone’s going to remember, and Electronic Earth rides that out in a few ways; …
With the current state of Video games retail, games enthusiasts have never been moree money concious – services like Steam have regular sales that set a precedent on what ‘the worth of a game’ is, and yet when new console games release …