Blur 13 Virgin/food By: Eric G. “What’s fifty feet long and has no pubes? Front row of a Blur gig.” This joke by Blur bassist Alex James can surely no longer be true. Perhaps, back in 1995 when Blur reached cartoon-size proportions with singles like “Country House” and “Charmless Man” hot on the heals of […]

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South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut Directed By Trey Parker Paramount Pictures By: Eric Greenwood Jokes about ‘uncle fuckers’ and Canadians are always funny. Being offended by South Park is just sad. Sure, there will be tons of lame organizations claiming that South Park will lead to another Columbine with its gratuitous violence, blind intolerance, […]

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Mr. Bungle Dillenger Escape Plan Live @ Ground Zero: 8/10/99 By: Eric Greenwood With cops chasing people through the parking lot and a huge line out the front door to the club, Dillenger Escape Plan started its set oblivious to the entire ruckus. The band’s not so subtle approach to the soft/loud dynamic wore thin […]

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Holiday Matinee (Various Artists) Pedal Faster Bicycle Rider Accident Prone By: Eric G. The trouble with genre music is that bands get really lazy because it doesn’t take much to fit in, so if you dress the part and sprinkle your sound with the tell-tale signs, you’ve got it made. There are too many suckers […]

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Drop Dead Gorgeous Directed By Michael Patrick Jann New Line Cinema By: Eric G. Drop Dead Gorgeous is not nearly as artful or cerebral as Fargo is, but it is almost as funny despite many forced and easy laughs. Both films take place in the small-town Midwest and both films share a similar strain of […]

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The Blair Witch Project Directed By Dan Myrick Artisan By: Eric G. I tried so hard to be scared by this movie, but I just couldn’t do it. I don’t know if it’s because I knew too much from all the hype or if my expectations were too high. Whatever the case I wasn’t scared. […]

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Slick Sixty Nibs And Nabs Mute By: Eric Greenwood This debut album from South London’s Slick Sixty combines the band’s early singles and b-sides for an electro-jazz, bigbeat, breakbeat, old school extravaganza. Think Screamadelica-era Primal Scream mixed with lazy, laid-back hip-hop beats and smooth seventies funk on top of early nineties psychedelia and you’ll be […]

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