The Room and Birdemic are funny enough to work on their own, but they're also perfectly paced and set up for riffing, as well. Birdemic Rifftrax is especially great.

The Giant of Marathon is the only one of the four Film Crew movies I've returned to- the rest make a good case for what some people are saying, that they're trying to recpature the magic and failing. Which is patently false, as anyone who has watched The Crater Lake Monster or Man From Harlem can attest. But it was a…

I think Rifftrax generally works best with their VOD movies, the bad stuff they've continued to dig up and get the rights to air. Bad Hollywood movies are still a ton of fun (I had viewing parties for each of the five Twilight movies with Rifftrax), but they don't always click.

He should team up with Kurt Sutter and do a podcast. I'd listen to that thing obsessively.

I read a review of Flood in a People Magazine in a dentist's office when I was in about 9th grade, then saw the Tiny Toons episode and picked up the album (on cassette!). Later on I realized that my actual first exposure to the band was when they hosted an episode of Nick Rocks! (Nickelodeon had a 1/2 hour video show…

Personally I felt this one was a step down from Join Us. It's still really solid, don't get me wrong. But the weird stuff at the back end of the record is not as good as the weird stuff at the back end of Join Us.

I saw them in March right after Nanobots came out. They hit most of the strong material from the album, except for this one. I was just a bit bummed since "Black Ops" is one of the best songs on that album. Still, it was a great time.

From what I understand, they pay Warner Music's marketing division to help get them radio play. It's strictly a contract job to expand Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' reach beyond YouTube. Warner doesn't get a cut of anything beyond what they're paid for that service. At least that's what they said on Colbert.

BNL once regularly headlined amphitheaters across the country, but only really sold them out in Canada and U.S. border towns, even after "One Week" became huge. Since then, their audience has gradually diminished and what was left of that audience got even smaller once co-frontman Steven Page left the band a few years…

They are a shell of their former selves without Page. They play a lot of Robertson songs and split up a handful of Page songs between him, Hearn, and even Tyler (he sings "Alcohol"). But nobody else in the band really is up for bantering with Ed, they just drop in comments into his stories. So it's kind of sad, but…

Jeez, I guess NIN did just play Houston in 2008, so it makes sense that they're only hitting San Antonio and El Paso in Texas this time. :p
I wonder if being a Voodoo Music Experience headliner in New Orleans has a contract that prevents them from playing Houston or Dallas?

According to Wikipedia (I don't have the physical liner notes), Castillo played on "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "I Sat By the Ocean", "The Vampyre of Time and Memory", and "Kalopsia", while Theodore only played on "Like Clockwork." Grohl played on everything else, so those are indeed his fills on "My God is the Sun."

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus  Since we're discussing Kirkman trying too hard, have you read any of Super Dinosaur? I gave it two issues and then bailed because it was so obviously Kirkman trying to do his own version of Axe Cop and predictably getting it all wrong because he isn't a little kid…

Saw them on their post-show, post-Brain Candy live tour in '99, when they did almost all "greatest hits" sketches from the show. That was a ton of fun.

1. McCulloch
2. Foley
3. McKinney
4. McDonald
5. Thompson

The late, great, Roy Orbison!

Can't fix the car…without a whole lotta milk-a.

Fables as a movie is not a great idea.

I do have several albums from Fat Wreck bands that, in retrospect, probably had their best song on the Fat Wreck comp I used as a sampler back then.

Petoskey! Muskegon! Alpena!