Giraffe Tongue Orchestra also fits here but I like them much more than GIG and KBK. Really, the only of these side project groups that's really blown me away is The Black Queen, so figures it got the least coverage from music sites.

And that's just mainstream music in a broad sense. The mainstream rock scene these days is a shithole.

I think it's pretty obvious that he knows that there are great and daring artists out there—he calls on them to tour with him all the time (Dillinger Escape Plan, Saul Williams, Death Grips, Godspeed, Queen Kwong, Oneohtrix Point Never, Cold Cave, Explosions in the Sky, etc etc). His problem is that you don't see…

To be fair, it was a few years after its release that The Slip really clicked for me. It's a pretty easy one to listen to and dismiss as cookie-cutter early on, and the abrupt change to more ambitious fare and long instrumentals can be jarring. I think it was when I revisited it with some really nice new headphones (I…

This is really really good. All of it. It's very short and without a truly great song which makes it hard to compare with his/their best output, but it does excite me for the future.

I think With Teeth isn't a bad album, just very boring compared to virtually everything Reznor has released. It's still got some really strong cuts, but "The Collector", "The Hand That Feeds", "Love is Not Enough", "Every Day is Exactly the Same", just the dullest material he's ever released.

Nobody writes anything similar to that here so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Your analogy would check out if a reviewer wrote that the character of Hawkeye was successful in a fight because of his skill as an archer.

Lots of confusing omissions from Best Duo. The first to come to mind are Keri Russell/Matthew Rhys, Aya Cash/Chris Geere, Louis CK/Steve Buscemi (though Best Ensemble is probably in order there), and Walton Goggins and Danny McBride. Everybody there was fantastic.

That's where I am. My initial reaction was "well that's ludicrous to the degree that I can understand why there were differences" but it sounds like DiGregorio had some really cool ideas of where to take it next year—Kelly graduating to co-lead and Pablo being conflicted about it all sounds great. I just hope the…

I'm torn now. I feel like I agree with both sides to an extent. I did love Kelly's increased presence and hardwiring her into the series as a secondary lead of sorts is awesome—but at the same time, making her Ash's daughter does seem on the nose and the way they arrive there (especially Kelly's mom being in Elk Grove…

I was a bit too caught up in the drama to notice many of the totally valid criticisms presented here for most of the episode (or just more forgiving—"a chainsaw battle? Uhhhhh, fuck it, I'll allow it") but that ending was totally jarring and I couldn't believe it wasn't a hallucination. It felt like a much lesser show…

The thing is, I'm not sure Jax is useful enough to be underutilized. NXT is actually good at getting the most out of talent, unlike Raw, and even then there was only so much you could do with her. They're probably better off hiding her in directionless land until she's good enough to deliver a decent match without…

Pretty sure I made this comment before, but it bears repeating: this season has seriously been firing on all cylinders and I couldn't be happy. I really really liked season one and think the last three episodes of it were as good as any Evil Dead 4 movie could've been, but this season has been better in virtually…

Which doesn't really seem harsh to me. The way divorce legally works aside, from where I sit, it's actually unfair to Paul that he has to give her two thousand dollars of his money every month now. I'd consider it a nice gesture that he's giving her a living allowance after everything that happened.

Well shit. I guess this is why I should actually watch music videos.

I think it was a decision Jimmy made rather impulsively and single-mindedly. He hadn't truly thought it through—only from the rhetoric that he used when he made the actual proposal, never thinking of it as "family". When he went on his rant about family, he wasn't thinking about how that's exactly what he'd be…

Well, they are the worst and this is TV. In real life, yeah, that'd be supremely shitty for many additional reasons like leaving her at risk of being raped and murdered. I don't think that'll come up though—it'll be more about the actual gesture of abandoning her right after the proposal that'll be the headline. Let's…

Maybe I'm naive, but I didn't take it as Jimmy and Gretchen not surviving. Driving away right after proposing is something that will certainly have serious ramifications on their relationship, but, well, they live together and now they're technically engaged. One horrible gesture doesn't undo all of that. I actually…

Also is anybody else annoyed that Lindsay's getting boned by a "paltry" two thousand dollars a month for doing absolutely nothing? I've never made two thousand dollars in a month. I know Los Angeles is expensive, but so is Seattle… where I've only ever rented rooms shared houses and apartments which is impractical for…

It was overall a rather uneven season (part of me thinks it'll play better without a week separating each episode) but the individual episodes pretty much all delivered with some great ones. But more urgently, those two episodes tonight were so fucking good, as good as any the show's put out. Certainly the best the…