C'mon, Ray, stop trying so hard. Unless your attempts are in support of your doctoral thesis: "In Search of the Satisfied Mind: Cognitive Dissonance and the Impossibility of Lucinda Williams"

"X-tina" has been thoroughly entertaining up until last night's criticism about the lyric in 99 Problems. I can appreciate that she's attempting to take some sort of ill-defined moral high ground by saying that "bitch" disrespects women… but it's hard to take it seriously considering the misguided messages she was…

Have you seen the most recent episode of Veep? Your comment reminds me about a comment made in the show I'm commenting about.

Funny, I thought the same thing myself when I first saw a live performance by the Pixies. I was flabbergasted! Flabbergasted, I tell you!

When I was younger (read: in university), Murder Ballads was my go-to for wallowing in despair. "Song for Joy" is one of his most relentlessly depressing songs ever. These days (read: early-mid career), I tend towards "The Mercy Seat", "From Her to Eternity" and "Abattoir Blues" (love the live performance on Jules…

crazy /kreizi/ adj. (crazier, craziest) 1 colloq. (of a person, an action, etc.) insane, mad or foolish. 2 colloq. (usu. foll. by about) extremely enthusiastic. 3 sl. (a) exciting, unrestrained. (b) excellent. 4 (attrib.) (of paving, a quilt, etc.) made of irregular pieces fitted together. 5 archaic (of a ship,…

I'm completing my PhD in Bro Studies. My thesis is called "From Liquid Swords to Crossing Swords: Contemporary Male Friendships, Colonialism and Hip-Hop Culture"

@avclub-32a2e71c97df5281f1324db72c73a59a:disqus Like minds think alike?

@avclub-e6990f5a3eb5738fbb28fd8a53506f6f:disqus I checked Allmusic and I was referring to Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? No fucking wonder I couldn't remember the title! I'm less enthusiastic about Grow Up but Soft Rock Star is another song that I really enjoy.

Agree, Manson is definitely not a good characterization. I could agree with Garbage but not wholesale. I've found all of the Metric albums to be growers. I was really unimpressed with Fantasies at first. Now it's my second favorite of their albums (Live It Out still tops) but it defintiely has one of their best songs…

@Better Call Saul: Your use of the word "tits" is a reference to Oz. I approve.

I've got a suspicion that Meg wasn't too interested in doing the band thing anymore. And perhaps Jack was speaking on the condition of Meg going bankrupt?

I know nothing about baseball so I took his comment as a veiled comment about Jay-Z's "retirement".

Based on his SNL performance, you could expect something that sounds like solo Jack White, which is reminiscent of The White Stripes but with a bigger band. "His" other bands (Raconteurs, Dead Weather) have typically been partnerships with other musicians so it's not really a good gauge of what the rest of his solo…

My wife and I saw them headline the last day of Virgin Fest on Toronto Island (2004? 2005?) and I must say the sound was exceptionally good for a large, open venue. Unfortunately, I generally dislike pretty much everything they've done post-Mellon Collie. I know that makes me sound all douche-y and trying to be all "I…

This reminds me of a recent Dallas Green show when he got into the solo-acoustic part of his set (he was decked out with a great band for his normally solo-acoustic material). The crowd was generally decent up until that point and Dallas asked everyone who had a cellphone to raise them up. Of course, literally…

I remember seeing Filter play at my university back when that goddamn airplane/newborn song was at the height of being annoying. Brian Lisegang was playing guitar and he just freaked out and threw his instrument off-stage. It was a pretty small venue and he's lucky to not have hit one of their techs. It was such an…

It might be an age thing. I'm 32 and I generally have no interest in rubbing elbows with a bunch of enthusiastic, not quite ready for prime time 18-25 year old youths. I consider music to be a major factor in my day-to-day existence but I will completely dismiss any concert-going experience that does not involve…

It wasn't bad given that it had the hefty challenge of appealing to mainstream audiences and the crowd who were faithfully watching the show at the time. As a stand-alone film, its not great because it has too much baggage to carry. I imagine someone who never watched the X-Files being somewhat lost in the plotting,…

A strong pilot that wasn't all that strong. It seems strange that the pilot was aired so long ago and now its being aired again, which I presume will mark the start of the actual series. But seriously, I can't watch Sutherland in this show. It's like watching Michael Chiklis post-The Shield in that…