Tag: Music
Review: The original Spider-Man soundtrack resurfaces on ‘Spider Jazz’
For all the whining by old guys about how the kids these days don’t discover great comics through the comics themselves, but through TV and movies, I offer Exhibit A, the old Spider-Man cartoon...
Review: Music as markers in ‘I Am Young’
Through the years, one thing that has consistently figured into the teenage remembrances of people I’ve known is music. We might have had completely different lives in completely different places, but everyone exhibits musical...
Interview: Nick Thorburn discovers the missing link between humans and penguins
Nick Thorburn is well-known for his work in music, less so for his comics. The Canadian cartoonist is the long-time vocalist for Islands, as well as a number of other music projects, like Human...
Review: A life unfolds through cassette tapes in ‘All the Sad Songs’
Cassette tapes are one of those things. I don’t know if people who didn’t live decades of their life with cassette tapes as part of them can really gather what they mean to people...
PREVIEW: You’ll Drive in Your Car and Go Real Far when ARCHIE MEETS BLONDIE!
The gang from Riverdale records an album with Blondie. Hijinx ensue!
No Spandex Saturday: The music of Metal Gear is coming to a stage near...
Hideo Kojima's masterpiece of ridiculous and grounded thematic storytelling, Metal Gear Solid, has taken its place in the video game pantheon but its music will live on this Fall. The official METAL GEAR orchestral concert...
Kendrick Lamar reveals the tracklist for BLACK PANTHER’s OST and it’s DAMN awesome
Fans of the Marvel movies might remember this 2016 video from the video essay channel, Every Frame a Painting, where Marvel's cinematic score was lambasted as bland and forgettable. No more, however. It seems...
NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: Kicking off 2018 with a thought on fandom, tied to my...
You can easily recognize me at anything that ends in con, experience, or even mania by my black zip-up hooded sweater with an unmistakable subculture caricature on the back of it, the Milo. A...
12 Hours of Halloween: These are the spooky soundtracks you need for haunting
Nothing gives you the inspiration for that finishing touch on your Halloween costume like the right music. For many years our music of choice has been Soma FM's "Doomed" station, which has a special...
NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: It’s Not Dead 2, the return of punk rock and the...
2015 saw the debut of a new music festival for the punk rock loving crowd. Featuring headliners such as the Descendents and NOFX, It's Not Dead was one of the best single days of...
Holiday Cheerings: James Kochalka’s annual Christmas song “Do the Snowflakes Know It’s Christmas?”
James Kochalka has delivered his annual Christmas ditty and it includes snowflakes and a cat. So that's all good.
Kochalka, the first Poet Laureate of Vermont, has a busy career as both a cartoonist and musician,...
Here’s Why You Can’t Remember Any of the Music from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe
Why is it that no Marvel music ever worms its way into your brain?
