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Archive for July, 2007

What Makes a Supergroup SUPER?

I think I would call my supergroup Savage Animal, since Sebastian Bach never did get to use the name (it rolls off your tongue, man). VH1 shoved Bach, Ted Nugent, Scott Ian, Evan Seinfeld and Jason Bonham into a house, made them write music together, and called it SuperGroup. This was genius (though VH1 does [...]

Arctic Monkeys are Bigger Than Jesus

On March 4, 1966, John Lennon proclaimed that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. As a result, the world spiraled out of orbit, crashed into the sun, and burst into flames; Then everyone threw all of their Beatle records on top of it. The reason that this was such an outrage was not because [...]

Klosterman and Why Pop Matters

Very few people could release a book of five year old magazine articles about musicians and athletes and still have it be a relevant contribution to the world of pop culture. Not only has Chuck Klosterman accomplished this, but it is one of the most relevant contribution in a while. In Chuck Klosterman IV: A [...]