Category: Record reviews

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  Attention must be paid

  By this point of my life, I expected to be famous, with a house shaped like a rook, five ex-wives, an agent who bathes her StairMastered curves in champagne, and an attorney named Bernie. I’ve fallen short of these goals, but I remain undaunted. Certain people I am married to…

  February 10, 2019
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  Let’s wrap this puppy up

  Right you film fans. Our look at movies about music concludes with Category D: Old biopic crud from Hollywood, by which I mean everything from before Hollywood discovered that not all people are white. I was mainly thinking of the ’50s and before, but once I seriously got into this,…

  January 13, 2019
• music Record reviews

  We’re on a mission from God

  If you’ve just joined us, we’re examining movies about music, inspired by Bohemian Rhapsody. This list is incomplete, idiosyncratic, and possibly inaccurate. Welcome to Category C: Totally fictional biopics! The Rose (1979) Bette Midler stars in a film that’s “loosely based” on the life of Janis Joplin. I’ve never seen…

  January 12, 2019
• music Record reviews

  Oh mamma mia, mamma mia, Queen won’t let me go

  Tonight’s very exciting post is all about – not music in movies, but movies about music! Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Starring Rami Malek as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, Gwilym Lee as guitarist and hair farmer Brian May, Ben Hardy as singing drummer Roger Taylor, Joseph Mazzello as dorky bass player…

  January 6, 2019
• Miscellaneous music Record reviews

  Letter of the Week

  This week’s “Letter of the Week” award goes to Loyal Reader Accused of Lurking, commenting on last week’s very exciting post, “The roads less traveled.” (You did know there’s a “Letter of the Week” competition, didn’t you? It’s a fierce ideological food fight featuring plenty of that groupie-on-groupie violence you…

  October 13, 2018