Posts tagged review
Wax Tracks: When Celebrities Sing
Feb 8th
Wonka Vision Magazine has just published Webzine Vol. 8. Each month, the webzine features my column Wax Tracks, where I talk about and review various records. In this month’s issue of Wax Tracks, I look at albums recorded by celebrities from Bruce Willis to Alan Arkin. Some you’ll remember, others you’ve never heard of before.
New Maps Of Hell
Jul 6th
Veteran punk rockers Bad Religion returned with their fourteenth studio album, 2007′s New Maps of Hell. It’s been three years since their last effort, The Empire Strikes First, and the wait proved well worthwhile. After nearly thirty years together, Bad Religion shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, at 16 tracks, New Maps of Hell is their longest album since 1998′s No Substance.
Make Love To The Judges
Jul 6th
The first full length album by the Canadian all-girl quartet Pony Up hit me immediately from the first song. Soft, somber, and hauntingly beautiful, “Dance For Me” is driven by keyboards, drums, and a really catchy bass line, and somehow incorporates dialogue from the trashy novel/film “Fanny Hill” as its chorus.
Amusing Ourselves To Death
Jul 2nd
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, is a scathing critique of the popular culture surrounding twentieth century television, with Postman defending his hypothesis that Aldus Huxley has accurately predicted a future society, now here, where “what we love will ruin us”.
