Feedback: Bastion’s Soundtrack

In 2012 an independent developer released Bastion, a somewhat clumsy platformer and arcade style third person shooter for the computers. The gameplay and the art style, while interesting, did not make quite as big a splash as its soundtrack. With good reason too, most...

The Tough Crowd: Meeting Mr. Liebling

Courtesy of CV Comics. On Saturday I met a real life rock star. A 70‰’s icon decked out with big long hair, tight jeans and his mother‰’s blouse. I (and all of my friends) met Bobby Liebling, vocalist of the legendary doom metal band Pentagram. I...

Rainy Day Music #10: "Wincing The Night Away"

Last week‰’s Rainy Day Album was an album of relentless, visceral sorrow — an opportunity to use a rainy day to purge the darkest emotions in your nature. This week‰’s is the opposite, a light and carefree album to make the most of your time inside:...

Minutia: Slint – The "Spiderland" Reissue

My addition to the Slint reissue circlejerk: There‰’s something about being immersed in the mundane, cyclical toils of prepubescent academia that has left me utterly unmotivated to follow this column‰’s self-imposed structure. I spend my days hunched over...