12 Months of Mike Month 10: Shrek the Third
It's an experimental episode this time around, as we try to kill two birds with one stone by watching Shrek the Third at the same time as we record the...
Women’s History Month: The Velvet Underground & Nico’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”
Next Sunday, March 12, marks the 50th anniversary of the debut album by the Velvet Underground: a band so generally groundbreaking, it can be easy to forget that they were...
Dystopian Road Mix Vol. 9: Northern Virginia to New York City, Part 2
Well, here it is. Ever since I wrote my first Dystopian Road Mix exactly two years ago, I've known in the back of my mind that eventually I'd be writing about...
Let Us Now Praise Reformed Death Dwarves: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to Lou Reed
It wasn't until I starting writing last Monday's essay about Lou Reed when I remembered how much he actually means to me. Reed was one of a sequence of troubled rock 'n' roll...
From the Vault: The Velvet Underground’s Velvet Redux – Live MCMXCIII
Editor's Note: Monday would have been the 73rd birthday of Lou Reed, a teenage hero to myself and legions of other disaffected white dudes, who passed away in October 2013 at...