As much as I love NBC and its shows, I’ll be the first to admit that they make more unpopular decisions than Nadya ‘Octomom’ Suleman. Their latest, firing Dan Harmon as the showrunner of Community, pretty much united the web in its scorn against The Peacock. Despite attempting to bury it in the new graveyard [...]

unfathomable ineffable god needed some cat to dig some parts of his creation that no one was picking up on and so he created me he chucked me together nearly sixty years ago and he said to me as he has always said to me my man look at all this stuff ! and true enough with just the thinnest skin that is bearable i have drunk deep of his creation and verily i am staggering in amazement did he realise….? that he had imbued me with my own tiny propensity for creation as part of him i strive to be ...

belabor \bih-LEY-ber\, verb: 1. To explain, worry about, or work more than is necessary. 2. To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule. 3. To beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows. 4. Obsolete. To labor at. Like besot, belabor comes from the prefix be- which makes a verb out of a noun and the root labor meaning "to work." Cyclops date A date with someone you've met over the internet; it's not quite a blind date because you've seen their photo, chatted with them and possibly talked to them on the phone. I have a cyclops date ...

It freaks me out when dudes are just against new thrash metal bands. Like, across the board, no exceptions, fuck retro-thrash, they say. And often they’re super-buttsore, as if being forced to relive the clear beverage craze or some other cynical ’80s thing. Weird. But some new thrash bands kinda invite scorn. Take Bonded By [...]

It freaks me out when dudes are just against new thrash metal bands. Like, across the board, no exceptions, fuck retro-thrash, they say. And often they’re super-buttsore, as if being forced to relive the clear beverage craze or some other cynical ’80s thing. Weird. But some new thrash bands kinda invite scorn. Take Bonded By [...]

Hailing from the Midwest, (I’ve seen that they are from Kansas and Kansas City, and there is a Kansas City, Kansas, so both could be right), we have Stonehaven.  They’ve come through Seattle a couple of times in the past year but unfortunately I did not catch their live shows, but I will rectify that in short order the next time they come through town, because this is the good stuff.  The Midwest is not known as a stronghold of black metal, but these guys certainly own what they do. This is as grim and frosty a release ...

1994: Brutal Truth - "Collapse" by Marcos Hassan on 04-19-2012 Known for being one of the quintessential grindcore bands, it’s easy to think that all Brutal Truth’s best songs are driven by blast-beats. Listening to their discography with more than mere curiosity, you’ll find that they were also masters of the slow path. “Collapse” opens what many consider their most celebrated albums, Need to Control , and it’s a five-minute doom song that lurches with one riff for most of its duration, taking the approach of Godflesh and making an evil, destructive, and heavy song just as intense ...

Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors [ purchase ] On first listen, Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" seems to offer an ironic twist on the tale of Joseph and his coat of many colors. In the Book of Genesis story, Joseph's coat is an object of envy. His father, Jacob, makes him the coat. His brothers take it as an indication that Joseph is the favored son. In jealousy, they capture Joseph, rip the coat from his back and sell him into slavery. The brothers take their father Joseph's bloodied cloak to fool him into thinking his son ...

So, who is the first name Alan Ant claims is his good friend? It's Mr Pastry. Richard Hearne created Mr Pastry as a stage character, moving into television when having a highly specialised novelty act could still get you a regular, long-running series rather than just three minutes of scorn from Simon Cowell. In fact, if there's anyone who has a claim to be the first proper TV star, it'd be Mr Pastry. Athough perhaps sliding down the memory hole now, at the time Hearne was huge - he was offered the Doctor Who role when John Pertwee ...

Cheap, slapped-together run-of-the-mill B-movie thrillers are a dime a dozen. And their egregiousness is often not worthy of outrage or scorn because frequently the films are made on the cheap with a knowing eye towards making a buck with direct-to-DVD sales or foreign markets that don’t care about quality. Everyone is professional and yet (very) aware they’re not making art. These films often feature the Dolph Lundgrens of the world (and in more recent years folks like Tom Berenger and Patrick Bergin), and are usually distributed by the likes of Troma Films, Anchor Bay and First Look Studios ...

Calypso offers social comment, soca soundtracks carnival season, but what about chutney? That's music to drink to For a country of little more than a million people to have created one thriving pop style would be impressive. For Trinidad and Tobago to have spawned three – calypso, soca and chutney – is remarkable. Trinidad's musical heritage is built on two solid foundations – its cultural diversity and its fundamental belief that nothing should get in the way of a party. Gang violence may have led to the imposition of a state of emergency and rolling curfews for much of 2011, but ...

Oh, this should be fun. SPIN : Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, America needs new enemies upon whom we can dump our never-ending supply of scorn and bile. We decided to look at the most dissed and dismissed artists in pop history, exploring both the causes (racism, sexism, wicked clownism) and the effects. Some artists caught a raw deal, and some got off easy (though no attempt at objectivity could overcome the fact that Kenny G made Namaste India last year). Regardless, all of these artists were, at one time or another, guilty in the court of public opinion ...

On a good day for promos, I found myself marvelling how much of this music malarkey is based around luck.  On the nearfield monitors chez Panhead Studios, which reward the brave (and scorn the timid), this little promo might well have passed me by.  Bit polite maybe.  But since I was listening on the headphones I got in exchange for my air miles the other year, I found myself quite entranced by the waves of synth work, the rolling textures, the depth of the subs, and the way that all this was layered over beats that are a cut above ...

Beach House – Myth In which Beach House take ‘feeling a bit miserable’ and mould it into a basis for delicately epic pop. Myth- taken from forthcoming 4 th album Bloom is, as promised, darker than previous outings from the Baltimore duo, but somehow still leaves a magnificent fuzzy feeling in its shuffling, downbeat wake, a bit like ReadyBrek warmed with hot tears. Being a loser never sounded so grand. Out soon on SubPop Rocket & The Moon – Hey Shooter It’s beyond tempting to cast scorn on Damon Albarn’s worthy forays into World Music. Off he goes, popping round the globe like the smug spirit of Dr Livingstone, stealing rhythms from the ‘little people’, streaming the results on The Guardian, and earning a tidy packet along the way. This time it’s the sound of Afrobeat falling into his greedy Essex paws, with former Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen joining up with Damo and a getting-a-bit-too-old-for-the-silly-haircuts Flea to throw together a jam that owes  as much to Funkadelic as it does to hyped up Nigerian brass. And you know what? It’s pretty good. Damn it. Albarn staves off the hangman time and time again, by making consistently great tunes, and this is no exception. The clever shit. Out now on Honest Jon's   Madonna – I F*cked Up How did Madonna get considered to be a ‘risk taker’? He career has been almost entirely defined by shameless bandwagon jumping and a vicious streak longer than Lady Gaga’s face, whilst being remarkably free of anything that actually bothers the musical status quo. But calling your song ‘I Fucked Up’, now that’s a risk. Especially when the song’s a bit crap. Taken from ‘brilliantly’ named album MDNA , this new single is, for the most part, anaemic MOR pop. For some reason, an unwelcome drum and bass rhythm pops up in the middle, like a gurgling fart in a lift. Best avoided. Out at some point. Can't be bothered to go over my notes and find out when.   Citizens! – Reptile This is pretty good you know. If you took the wonky seaside riffs from Metonomy’s The Look and roughed them up behind an East London cab office you’d come out with something that was, well, hold on, realistically it’d be nothing  like Reptile. How the hell do you even rough a song up? Man, who invented using these stupid metaphors in the first place? Why am I still typing? Let’s stick to the facts; this is catchy and now it’s single of the week. Out now on Kitsune.   Review originally posted on SupaJam .

VNV Nation Darkangel (Gabriel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDfOCpOiElE&feature;=related In your dream you see me clear I have no restraint, no fear Powerless I watched from faces I'd assumed. My purpose set. My will defined. Caress the air. Embrace the skies. Escape the sorrow and restraint of mortal cities. Give me time I will be clear. Given time you'll understand What possesses me to right what you have suffered. I'm in this mood because of scorn. I'm in a mood for total war. To the darkened skies once more and ever onward. So ...