Morrissey Autobiography

When the publication of Morrissey’s autobiography was announced, the collective heart of the news media skipped a beat. A tell-all book by one of rock’s most inscrutable, stubborn, and unlikely idols? Some definitive insight, finally, into one of the...

Watch This: Crybaby Documentary

I’ve never cared about the history of the Cry Baby, but Joey Tosi does.  And he tells a pretty compelling story about probably the most recognizable effect in the guitar world.1 Over the course of an hour, “The Pedal That Rocks The World” tells...

A Band Called Death

I’m going to skip right to the end here; A Band Called Death is the best movie I’ve seen in 2013. It’s hard to give an overview of the movie without telling the whole story, but the 10000 foot view is.  Three brothers (both literally and...

Books: Official Truth 101 Proof

Rex Robert Brown really, really does not like Vincent Paul Abbot. I have now given you roughly 25% of this book.  No, seriously, so much of it is spent calling Vinnie Paul names and calling Vinnie Paul out that there’s barely room for Rex to do the occasional...

FL Studio Groove Pt. 1

Two things happened this weekend. I turned 40, then I woke up with that familiar pain in my left wrist.  The pain that says “you will be wearing a wrist brace for the next few weeks, it will be almost as annoying is the constant throbbing.” I suspect these...

How To Use Reviews

So, a couple of weeks ago the internets (or at least the parts of it dedicated to Windows Phone) erupted in a furor over a review.  Molly Wood, executive editor for cnet reviewed the Nokia Lumia 1020, also known as the best camera phone you can buy.  In her review...