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Break-ups hurt.  A lot.  And any surgeon will tell you that any amputation requires a great deal of analgesia to numb the pain in the aftermath.  Such is the case in the separation of two conjoined lovers, who suddenly wish to no longer meet at the hip.  Rather than indulge in booze and pills and [...]

When you’ve gotten to a point, as a songwriter, where you feel like you heard or played it all, there comes a necessary need for change. Whatever that might be; for some, that change may come in the form of an extended African holiday, a new pill combination (not advisable), or simply picking up an [...]

Great songwriting and musicianship does not guarantee that a song will be a hit, so it is wonderful when a recording artist uncovers a musical gem by, well… covering it. When a cover song becomes a hit, the original artist benefits. Often there is a renewed interest in the original artist’s work and hopefully (depending [...]

Cover songs can be hit or miss, they can either nail everything the original did and intersect it with their own style or have it fall flat. Here are 10 covers so different from the original it’s almost as if they’re not the same song any more. 10. Can You Feel the Love Tonight The [...]

Way back, before the days of VEVO and YouTube, there was actually television programming whose singular purpose was to present you music videos. At one time, MTV’s entire existence was also based on showing videos, but those days are long gone. For those of you who agree that the music video is an underappreciated art [...]

It’s 2012.  Our cell phones are more intelligent than us, we can download more hours of pornography than there are hours in our lives, and flying cars are right around the corner (maybe).  And yet video games still have the same flaws they’ve had for years.  Flaws that should have been fixed long ago, like… [...]

Every musician has to evolve.  If the music you put out in 2012 is the exact same crap as you put in 1982, then you’re either an unoriginal, talentless hack, or AC/DC.  It’s expected that your art grows and matures as you grow and mature as well. Some musicians, however, take that idea to the [...]

Documentaries are probably the most unappreciated film genre, even as the viewing public seems increasingly enamored with every flavor of reality television. Even worse is when high profile, rabble-rousing pieces from people like Michael Moore or Al Gore discredit documentaries as a whole and steal publicity from smaller, more honest, and more interesting movies.  This [...]

Determining the ten best film ensembles of the 21st Century was a much harder list to narrow down than I originally anticipated. There are a lot of movies that succeed on the basis of having a lot of big-name stars attached to them. To create a list like this, I tried to focus on movies [...]

Circuit Bending is the art by which a brave and inquisitive mind, armed only with a soldering iron, components, and old electronics can create weird, wonderful, noisy, and overall disturbing new takes on classic items.  The method is, on the whole, incredibly creative and experimental, accomplished via a variety of methods such as introducing variable [...]