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One Step Beyond
Hey you! Don’t touch that! Watch this! This is the heavy, heavy monster sound! The rockinest, rock steady beat of Madness! ONE STEP BEYOND!!! Anyway, I thought I should wrap things up on the 2012...
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Sweet Like Cinnamon
I dare you to read Dare Me and not realize that, baby, we were born to die. Lana Del Rey is the perfect companion to reading Megan Abbott’s high school noir novel about the bloodsport of cheerleading,...
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Ghosts ‘n Stuff
Hurricane Sandy may very well dampen the dark spirits of All Hallow’s Eve, but the ghosts will still do their thing. Perhaps we’ll be visited by the Walking Deadmau5. And stuff…
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007: Goldenvoice
Such a cold finger… Shirley Bassey, the Welsh chanteuse with a deadly voice… one that subdues the soul and lays one vulnerable to attack… is the only artist to be entrusted with more than one Bond...
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007: Standing Tall through Christmas
I seem to become progressively homicidal each day that brings me closer to Christmas. Sure, I hate the shopping, the pressure, the family gatherings, the fake commercialism of it all… just as much as...
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I’ll Be Your Idol
I’m a little behind in my book reviews. But at least I really do exist. Rather… it would appear that I exist. How can you be sure? Most of you have never met me, only correspond with me using digital...
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New Year Grooves
New Year’s Eve in Toronto can be like Night of the Living Dead. At around 3am, the downtown core is crawling with zombie-like club goers, roaming the streets in drunken, mindless fury in search of...
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When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Now that I’ve survived well into 2013 (though barely, having undergone dental surgery and suffering from a cold), it’s time that we prepare for the inevitable. I’ve been saying this for years, and to...
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Music for the Robot Uprising
I’m pretty sure Dubstep is the first sign that the machines are learning. They’re creating music now… not just the simple pre-programable stuff that we’ve been doing for years. No — they’re making it...
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Vinyl Love
Nice and Easy. It has been a very long time since I’ve been able to do this, having long-ago abandoned all forms of music dissemination other than digital downloads. Listener purists have been telling...
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