In all honesty, I’m a bit surprised it’s taken me as long as it has to feature a progressive rock album in this column: given how quickly prog flamed out, and the low standing in popular music it carries to this day, it’s no surprise that there are dozens if not hundreds of records from […]
Fossil Records: My Mine’s STONE
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Let’s be real: not every out-of-print album is going to be a profound work of heartrending majesty. Sometimes, for […]
Fossil Records: Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Ambient music, though conceptually simple, perpetually walks a tricky line: make it too minimal and it risks being boring […]
Fossil Records: Dr. Alimantado’s Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Dr. Alminatado is probably most recognizable for a song that isn’t even exactly his: “Man Next Door,” a track off of Massive Attack’s game changing Mezzanine album, interpolates long stretches of his song “Poison Flower” (“Theeere’s a man who lives next doooor…”). But it would be a shame to let Alimantado’s notoriety, as well […]
Fossil Records: Lowdown da Sinista’s Coming for Your Soul
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. As far as I can tell, there is no widely available information on rap artist Lowdown da Sinista aside […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Charlie Bartlett
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Christopher M. Jones looks back at 2007’s Charlie Bartlett, which starred Anton Yelchin and Robert Downey Jr but was a critical and commercial failure. […]
All You See: The Fall of Family Guy
In the third episode of Family Guy’s twelfth season, “Quagmire’s Quagmire,” eponymous character Glenn Quagmire meets Sonya, the woman of his dreams: someone as perverse and predatory as himself. For a while they enjoy a life of debauched sexual chemistry, but soon the depravity becomes too much even for Quagmire: After Sonya demands a grueling […]
Anohni’s Hopelessness is a Gratuitous, Tin-eared Trainwreck
I have a deep fondness for the work and words of Anohni. Her essay last year about why she chose not to perform at the Oscars was a welcome kick in the ass towards a media event that much of us somehow forget is literally an idolatrous celebration of corporatism and mediocrity; her work with […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Megan is Missing
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Christopher M. Jones looks back at the 2011 found footage horror film Megan is Missing, which was widely panned and failed to make much […]
Sobriety Tests: A Recovering Alcoholic’s Guide to Surviving Social Situations
Ross Benes recently wrote a Deadspin article that had some…interesting advice about how to have fun at a party while abstaining from alcohol. But did you know there are a host of other situations where drinking is considered the norm, and your teetotaler lifestyle may leave you with a social black eye if you’re not […]