In terms of album launches, the Roots performance art-based experience in NYC for new album …and then you shoot your cousin was one most interesting and strikingly bizarre you could imagine. Read about it here.
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Junkee: The 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals
I wrote a brief piece about why everybody with even a passing interest in basketball need to read the piece by Grantland’s Jonathan Abrams concerning the 2002 WCF between LA and Sacramento. Abrams piece is a terrific look back at one of the most unbelievable playoffs series in history… I talk about it here.
and just for good measure… this. Kobe, huh.
Junkee: Disney Jaeger Pilots
There’s an artist named Lou who created a series of Disney characters as Pacific Rim Jaeger pilots, complete with backstories and custom Jaegers. It’s awesome. I made with the funny and wrote about it here. And you can check out the rest of her series at her Tumblr.
Blunt Magazine
I reviewed the new records by Pup, Devil You Know and Plague Vendor in the latest issue of Blunt Magazine.
All of them are actually damn good albums, and the Pup and Plague Vendor records in particular are highly spoken of. And Devil You Know is better than any post-Howard Jones Killswitch Engage record to date. So yeah. Cool.
Which means, y’know, buy the magazine.
20 Years On – Has Kurt Cobain Influenced Music Today At All?
My formative years were spent listening to Nirvana, and figured that Kurt Cobain’s musical legacy would always be undeniable and important … so what happened?
You can read my feature about Cobain, 20 years after his death, right here.
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