Neither the article nor any of the comments so far have mentioned SPARTACUS, so it's time steel met flesh and your collective, unworthy blood was painted upon fucking sands.

THE TRIBE is incredible. Everyone (with a tolerance level for extreme violence) should see it.

A rare, unusually glaring omission: Robert Forster's "From Ghost Town," his ridiculously moving tribute to his Go-Betweens collaborator of many years, Grant McLennan.

LOUIE pokes a hole in the "there are two shows you can emulate" theory, and is curiously omitted here.

LOUIE pokes a hole in the "there are two shows you can emulate" theory, and is curiously omitted here.

No. See, there's this thing called YouTube now.

No. See, there's this thing called YouTube now.

Anyone who has trouble linking lowest-common-denominator signs to Top 20 hits, regardless of genre, isn't paying any fucking attention.

Anyone who has trouble linking lowest-common-denominator signs to Top 20 hits, regardless of genre, isn't paying any fucking attention.

I feel perfectly fine blaming people who are too lazy to actually listen to anything more than radio singles, actually.

I feel perfectly fine blaming people who are too lazy to actually listen to anything more than radio singles, actually.

It is when the music contained therein basically amounts to the mashup equivalent of that scene from "RV" where Robin Williams tried "rapping."

It is when the music contained therein basically amounts to the mashup equivalent of that scene from "RV" where Robin Williams tried "rapping."

No. It's still racist, because regardless of the races of individual performers, hip-hop is undeniably an outgrowth of African-American culture. Pretending there's no link between perceptions of hip-hop and perceptions of black culture is just naive.

No. It's still racist, because regardless of the races of individual performers, hip-hop is undeniably an outgrowth of African-American culture. Pretending there's no link between perceptions of hip-hop and perceptions of black culture is just naive.

It's not about all rappers being black, it's about the makers of this mixtape using the lowest-common-denominator clichés that people who don't actually listen to rap associate with all of rap culture (materialism, sexism, etc.) and then using only incredibly dated sampling material - it seems tasteless at best and…

It's not about all rappers being black, it's about the makers of this mixtape using the lowest-common-denominator clichés that people who don't actually listen to rap associate with all of rap culture (materialism, sexism, etc.) and then using only incredibly dated sampling material - it seems tasteless at best and…

This is shitty and kinda racist. (Well, the music is shitty. It's mostly the album art that's racist. Jesus.)

This is shitty and kinda racist. (Well, the music is shitty. It's mostly the album art that's racist. Jesus.)