R. B. Greaves, who sang “Take a Letter, Maria,” has died, according to the New York Times. I loved this song as a teenager, because I loved how it was a man asking his secretary to take dictation, before it turns into that man asking his ...
What you see above is the only remaining evidence that I ever played music in public. I found an old unlabeled VHS tape in a box but I put off digitizing until this year. (I took the tape to Digitas, by the way, a great and friendly digital shop in ...
I just read something very bothersome, although it’s probably more bothersome to Rich, my editor at VH1 (who also runs FourFour (I may be the only person who knows those things in that particular order)), than it is to me. Quickly: Rich edited ...
“…bully’s suck no matter what country you are from…” Well, okay. If that was the message, that’s okay. But those bullies had American flag arm bands — anonymity was not the intention there. Avatar was more subtle! ...
My thing (or rather my couple of things) with this M.I.A. video is that, like most of M.I.A.’s art, it’s unsubtle yet still unclear. It’s not “pointlessly violent” as some people are arguing on Stereogum, nor pointed. ...
Ace Norton a super young video director (as they all seem to be, now) and nice guy, just released a Sebastian Tellier video. I interviewed him for Paper Thin Walls back when I had a video director column. Out of all the directors I profiled, he was the ...