Happy birthday to the great Kim Gordon: music and fashion icon, Sonic Youth bassist and guitarist, singer, songwriter , memoirist and over all rock music thunder-goddess. She turns 63 today.
(Yes, 63.)
Here are 20 of her …
Sunday, HBO’s smash hit epic fantasy “Game of Thrones” returns for a sixth season.
The show is at an odd point (besides ending its last season on roughly a billion different cliffhangers).
If each previous season is …
As heads everywhere know, A Tribe Called Quest rapper Malik Izaak “Phife Dawg” Taylor died on March 22 due to complications from diabetes, a disease Phife struggled with his whole life. He was one of the all time greats.
So it is not entirely surprising that this video mash-up appeared April 9. It’s not a new idea (this is still one of the best), but this one is executed …
…is phenomenal. “Blue Ruin” director Jeremy Saulnier cranks it out of the park again.
Full review will be posted on the Austin Movie blog Thursday. It opens Friday.
Until then: here is the poster.
And its …
Love it, hate it, look forward to it or avoid it, April 16 is Record Store Day.
Here are 10 records that caught my eye, in no particular order.
“Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks” (Demon). A …
The Julie Ruin — which features half of Bikini Kill (frontwoman Kathleen Hanna and bassist Kathi Wilcox) along with Kiki and Herb’s Kenny Mellman on keys, drummer Carmine Covelli and guitarist Sara Landeau — announced a …
Oh, man.
So, I liked “The Force Awakens.” Was it satisfying? Sure. Was it better than the prequels? Yes. Did it have its flaws? Yes. It was, as a friend once put it about a Liz Phair album, “scrumptiously overratable.”
And I am on the record as having my wig pushed back by the possibilities delivered in the “Force Awakens” trailer.
The trailer for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” directed by …
Check it Out 