1) Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T. J. English 2) One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs 3) The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes […]
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Movies that may not look great can no doubt look great and entice the casual listener to pick up matinee tickets just for a the amazing eye candy aspect of the art. In fact, that’s how most B-Movies used to do it. Ah, the beauty in design, […]
1) Telekinesis! – Telekinesis! 1a) Sonic Youth – The Eternal 2) White Rabbits – It’s Frightening 3) Mos Def – The Ecstatic 4) Wilco- Wilco The Album 5) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest 5a) Maximo Park – Quicken the Heart
Say what you will about Michael Jackson, but the man could dance like nobody’s business.
What’s so fine about art? What is art? Well Pretentious Record Store Guy knows it when he sees it, and usually it takes the form of a beautiful album cover. Recently, Smashing Magazine did a showcase of the 35 Most Beautiful Album Covers. Now, Pretentious Record Store Guy does not agree with all their selections, […]
My band plays a different type of music than anybody else plays. We play distinctive rhythms that no other band can play. There are so many of my songs that have been rearranged at this point that I’ve lost track of them myself. We do keep the structures intact to some degree. But the dynamics […]
After months and months of hard labor, Pretentious Record Store Guy #2 is very close to becoming a reality. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, here is the cover for the second issue. Stay tuned for more updates…
So Frank Black, one of my all time favorite musicians and head of one of the greatest bands ever (The Pixies, duh!) just produced the third album from one of my favorite bands of the last few years, Art Brut and it’s called Art Brut vs. Satan! What? Where do I sign up? Seriously. I […]
1) Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan 2) The Thermals – Now We Can See 3) Ben Kweller – Changing Horse 4) A.C. Newman – Get Guilty 5) Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
One of my favorite rappers of all time, Del the Funky Homosapien, just put his newest record online for free. If you remember correctly, his last record Eleventh Hour made my list of Pretentious Record Store Guy’s Favorite Albums of 2008. To download his newest record called Funk Man ( The Stimulus Package) by Del […]
Where’s Magoo? Who needs him when you’ve got Trent Reznor and the brand new record remixed by Timbaland. Check it out: Nine Inch Nails – Strobelight track list: intro skit everybody’s doing it (featuring chris martin, jay-z AND bono) black t-shirt pussygrinder (featuring sheryl crow) coffin on the dancefloor this rhythm is infected slide to […]
From the visionary co-creator of Watchmen Alan Moore comes another adventure for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Along for the ride as always is co-creator and illustrator Kevin O’Neill (Marshal Law), but just about everything else has changed for the League. Now published by Top Shelf instead of Wildstorm’s America’s Best Comics imprint, The League […]
Who watches the Watchmen? Apparently lots of people, but on opening weekend. What did Pretentious Record Store Guy think of the movie adaptation of the unfilmable comic? I thought it was good, not great. Like most of the time with movies based on books, I thought the book was much, much better. But I think […]
Even though Rolling Stone isn’t the magazine it once used to be, I still read it and follow it every other week when it comes out. Call me a sucker, a nostalgic dude or a glutton for punishment. Either way, they just released their Spring Music Preview in their last issue (the cover of which […]
It appears that the Ides of March are upon us. More specifically, upon great 90s bands rereleasing their cds as Limited Edition 2 CD/DVD Deluxe Editions. Following in the footsteps of Pearl Jam, Radiohead are releasing their first three albums as Special Collector’s Editions on March 24th, coincidentally the same day that Pearl Jam is […]
