1) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat the Devil’s Tattoo 2) Spoon Transference 3) Broken Bells Broken Bells 4) The Editors In This Light & On This Evening 5a) Gorillaz Plastic Beach 5b) Magnetic Fields Realism 5c) Titus Andronicus The Monitor
1) Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli 2) Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke 3) Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos 4) Noir by Various 5) 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man by Matt Kindt 5) The Nobody by Jeff Lemire
1) Pearl Jam Backspacer 1a) Arctic Monkeys Humbug 2) Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk 3) Julian Plenti Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper 4) Modest Mouse No One’s First, and You’re Next 5) Muse The Resistance
1) Phil Collins Face Value 1a) Phil Collins No Jacket Required 2) Eric Clapton Slowhand 3) Simon and Garfunkel The Sound of Silence 4) Kanye West College Dropout 5) U2 The Joshua Tree
1) 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso 2) Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli 3) Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips 4) Stray Bullets by David Lapham 5) Sin City by Frank Miller
This Wednesday, August 19th, marks the official launch of Vertigo’s new crime and noir imprint– Vertigo Crime– with two new novels: Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos and Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell’Edera. I, for one, have been greatly anticipating the launch of Vertigo Crime because, let’s face it, every […]
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 […]
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
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
1) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 2) Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 3) Red Rocket 7 by Mike Allred 4) American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 5) The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta
1) Pink Floyd Ummagumma [LIVE] 2) The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 3) The Clash London Calling 4) Led Zeppelin I 5) Oasis Definitely Maybe
1) The Absolute Sandman vol. 4 by Neil Gaiman and various 2) The Absolute Sandman vol. 3 by Neil Gaiman and various 3) The Joker by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo 4) Astonishing X-Men vol. 2 (hardcover) by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday 5) Doktor Sleepless – Engines of Desire by Warren Ellis and Ivan […]
1) Pearl Jam – Vs. 2) Pearl Jam – Ten 3) Pearl Jam – Vitalogy (Original Version) 4) Pearl Jam – Yield 5) Pearl Jam – Lost Dogs
Q-Tip just came out with an amazing album last Tuesday called The Renaissance. Yeah, it’s Q-Tip so you know it’s the heat, but way back in 2002, he had a solo record that was about to drop called Kamaal the Abstract. Apparently it was way too crazy for the record label so they shelved it. […]
