Music Review: Matmos @ The Stone
I remember the first time I watched electronic performance. It was at The Knitting Factory in 2000. A friend of mine had brought me. And I was amazed that a crowd of people had turned up to watch two guys…DJ. Well, they weren’t just playing one club song after the [...]
So, it’s taken us a week to get over being over the hype surrounding Joanna Newsom’s concert at BAM. But we’re over it. And now…we’re into it. No, for realz.
What y’all might not understand is that C.C. has a genetic “anti-hype” condition, that is, we are biologically incapable of liking anything that has been over-hyped. [...]
First of all, listen to this. (Thanks MissionFreak.)
Second, I’ve been thinking about why I can’t fully get into Joanna Newsom’s lyrics. So it came to my mind, rather subconsciously, to compare Newsom’s lyrics to another artist I feel maintains a similar level of visionary stream of consciousness, but whose lyrics I find more successful: Tori [...]
So, my review of the Joanna Newsom concert at BAM has generated a lot of traffic, and two interesting comments by a couple of readers. So let me respond to them here while also offering further thoughts on Ms. Newsom’s work.
To Kat, let me say first that there is no such thing as an objective [...]
Music Review: Joanna Newsom @ BAM
For Michael
For one night at least, the cool kids took over BAM. I am, of course, using the phrase as I once believed Claudia La Rocco had used it (reviewing Jeremy Wade’s “…and pulled out their hair” at The Joyce Soho), that is, with an edge of condescencion. Well, with [...]
Please enjoy this video while C.C. gets her shit together…
Movie Review: Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd”, a film adaptation of the musical by Stephen Sondheim
All the hype and gripe over Tim Burton’s screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s much revered opus, Sweeney Todd, can be a little tiring. Most of the chatter—which can be found, among other places, at the be-your-own-critic section of The Times [...]
SFJ pulls down the first CADDY of 2008 for this review of Kate Nash in The New Yorker. He levels this deft criticism of the recent crop of Brit MySpace poppettes that get waaaaay too much acclaim for what is a really a grimy mix of cute speak-singing and coy posing:
“…compared with the great female [...]
The Culture Czar turned us on to this hot-ass new video from Mrs. Matthew Barney. It’s by far the best video she’s turned out in a loooooooong-ass time. It’s directed by super genius Michel Gondry. “Declare Independence” is off Volta (which we reviewed here), and is actually the only “political” song she’s ever written. [...]
C.C. would like to give a shout out to two artists who recently bore the brunt of our authoritative battery. It definitely requires balls of steel to take a hit from the Counter Critic and still be able to walk it off and come back to leave a comment. And for that level of endurance, [...]
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