Mar 08, 2016
By Max Bloom
Yuck
Best and Worst Show is our recurring guest blog series where the artist writes about the best and worst shows they ever played. For this installment, Max Bloom of four-piece Yuck writes about a memorable CMJ show and the mad dash to make it to a festival in Ireland. The band’s third album,Stranger Things, was released a couple of week’s ago via the band’s own Mamé Records. More
Feb 09, 2016
By Cody Ray Shafer
Web Exclusive
Last week’s episode of The X-Files certainly set the high bar for this series. It was fun, weird, and told us an awful lot about where these characters are twenty-plus years into their evolution. I don’t think anyone was expecting this week’s episode to top “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” so it is understandable that “Home Again” is a bit uneven at times. More
Feb 02, 2016
By Mark Redfern
Web Exclusive
To calculate our Top 100 Albums of 2015 list, which we posted back in December, we asked each of our writers to submit a personal list of their favorite albums of 2015. Writers were encouraged to submit a Top 45, although both shorter and longer lists were accepted. We’ve now decided to collect all our writers’ individual best albums of 2015 lists below. More
Jan 29, 2016
By Mark Redfern
Web Exclusive
To calculate our Top 100 Albums of 2015 list, which we posted back in December, we asked each of our writers to submit a personal list of their favorite albums of 2015. Writers were encouraged to submit a Top 45, although both shorter and longer lists were accepted. We’ve now decided to collect all our writers’ individual best albums of 2015 lists below. More
Jan 26, 2016
By Cody Ray Shafer
Web Exclusive
I am way too young to appreciate the thrill of seeing a new generation of adventures aboard the Starship Enterprise on The Next Generation, and I didn’t discover Doctor Who until years after the new series launched. But The X-Files is a show I was there for from the beginning, and its revival hits a nostalgic nerve I’m not sure anything will be able to replicate. I think we can all agree that for better or worse, seeing Mulder and Scully reunite for a series of weird adventures is something to celebrate. More
