Las Vegas Critics

Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a comic book movie about rock-n-roll, video games and falling in love. It’s frenetic and absurd, funny, sweet and fun, it claims to be “an epic of epic epicness” and you will most likely either love it or hate it.

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Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton & James Mercer (from The Shins) are Broken Bells

Broken Bells - Broken Bells

The lead singer and guitarist of The Shins, James Mercer, has teamed up with Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton on a project they’ve decided to call Broken Bells. Burton’s most recent work was with Sparklehorse on Dark Night of the Soul, a one-time collaboration that was never officially released because of a legal dispute with EMI.

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Best 10 Albums of 2008

Top 10 Albums of 2008

Perhaps I was just a tad too scientific when I decided to compile my list of the best albums of 2008, but since I’ve never assembled a top 10 list before I wanted to be careful…and thorough. So I waited until all of the major players had published their lists and then I cross-referenced them all against each other and singled out the albums that were mentioned multiple times.

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Beck

Beck - Modern Guilt

Beck’s new album, Modern Guilt was co-produced by Danger Mouse and features Cat Power’s backing vocals on two of the tracks. It would have been nice to hear a girl at the forefront of a song or two, but Beck apparently doesn’t want to relinquish the microphone.

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