Posted in Music, PopMatters, Reviews, Springsteen, tagged PopMatters, review, Springsteen on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PopMatters – Bruce Springsteen is 58 years old right now, the first of many reasons that the Magic tour shouldn’t be anywhere near as vibrant and relevant as it is. Other obstacles include, but are not limited to, perceptions that: he’s overly preachy and political, his band is too old (Clarence is 65!), and he’s [...]
Posted in Music, PopMatters, Reviews, mp3, tagged christopher mccandless, eddie vedder, hard sun, into the wild, mp3, rise, setting forth on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PopMatters – Aside from maybe that Jay-Z record attached to American Gangster, it’s hard to imagine a songwriter marrying up with a movie topic more logically, more effectively, than Eddie Vedder and Christopher McCandless, the detached American kid-gone-walkabout who serves as the doomed protagonist of Into the Wild. At its heart, the story of Wild [...]
Posted in Music, PopMatters, Reviews, tagged crown of thorns, dirty frank, eddie vedder, given to fly, hard to imagine, i believe in miracles, i won't back down, live at the gorge, mike mccready, mother love bone, pearl jam, PopMatters on July 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
PopMatters — “Oh, good,” my wife exclaimed when the three-show, seven-disc Live at the Gorge box set arrived at the house last week. “About time we got some live Pearl Jam CDs in here.”
My wife exclaimed these things because: 1) She is hilarious, 2) She would drop me for Eddie Vedder without so much as [...]
Posted in Music, PopMatters, Reviews, Springsteen, tagged bruce springsteen, concert review, indianapolis, jeff vrabel, jimmy buffett, live review, pete seeger, PopMatters, review, seeger sessions band, Springsteen on June 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
PopMatters — Nothing — absolutely nothing — about the scene at Bruce Springsteen’s concert in Indianapolis hinted that there was Bossness afoot. The crowd was smartly dressed and orderly; purple chandeliers hung on stage; and in the pit, general admission fans jockeyed politely for position. More beer stands were shuttered than open, and there wasn’t [...]
Posted in Music, PopMatters, Reviews, tagged curtain call, dr. dre, eminem, jeff vrabel, nate dogg, PopMatters, slim shady, weird al yankovic on December 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
PopMatters — Thoughts on the career of Eminem, fueled by a mid-career hits bonanza that arrives just in time for the holidays:
One: I can’t tell which ages worse, teen-pop or shock-rap, but I do know that the irony contained therein pleases me greatly. Two: wielding faux-dangerous pop-culture references doesn’t make you the world’s most [...]
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