Carl Wilson, ace music writer for the Toronto Globe & Mail, tackles taste at its basest level: in the work of Celine Dion. Through careful ponderings, fan interviews, historical research, Canadian intuition and thoughtful, expert prose, Wilson struggles to understand the hows and whys of the Quebecois Queen, one of the most polarizing global cultural figures of the past decade, a woman whose appeal cuts across cultures and classes to approach a kind of fame seldom seen, and yet who is nearly
​Post hardcore band Thursday will be bringing their sing-scream-sing combination to Revolution Live on October 22. Thursday's latest album Common Existence is a concept album of sorts. They didn't exactly try to evolve their sound, but instead wrote songs that reflected some of the band's favorite poets and authors like Martin Amis, David Foster Wallace, and Cormac McCarthy. Kudos to them for bringing heavy lyrics to match their sound. Thursday is headlining the Common Existence Tour, with The
​In the post-hardcore pantheon, the New Jersey guys of Thursday are millennial gods. Led by the unapologetically erudite frontman Geoff Rickly, in the late '90s and early '00s, their early loud-soft aesthetic helped define what would later come to be known -- often pejoratively -- as "screamo."
That accomplishment has been both a blessing and a curse, and 2009 finds the band in a strange marketing position. To those who gave the band only a cursory listen from the beginning, the misapplied ge
​When Vontae Davis started off the game with a leaping interception that can only be described as Fuck Yea!, the consensus feeling was the Dolphins were going to make this one interesting. Maybe even pull off the upset. Alas, it was not to be. The Patriots were able to show us, once again, that the Dolphins are good, but not good enough. And that there are more than a few weaknesses that need to be addressed before Miami can play with the big boys (i.e. - Colts, Saints, Patriots) and actually
