The making and success of Scott Pilgrim are a sign that videogames really have infiltrated our popular consciousness. When captions such as “+9999 EXP” and “Level Up” are casually assigned to characters without explanation as punchlines, it presumes the audience …
You play Stanley, the narrator declares, a content worker drone in a nondescript office. Sitting up from your desk at work one day, you realize that everyone is gone. The narrator shepherds you towards the cafeteria, to see where everyone’s …
The Misra Legacy Compilation I is a fantastic, and free, mixtape of North American indie rock. Details reposted from Crawdaddy:
…Out with the old Bracys, in with the new. Misra has always been a fiercely pro-artist record label, founded
Sharon Van Etten’s Epic (2010) comes at a strange time for indie rock. The genre is undergoing growing pains from its once haloed position as the alternative to “alternative rock.”
In one respect, indie rock’s become the hot new thing: …
“This American Life? Is that that show by those hipster know-it-alls who talk about how fascinating ordinary people are? Gawd!”
That piece of silly dialogue from TV (specifically the OC) just about sums up the This American …