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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Top 10 EPs of 2009
EPs are not the ideal format to release music when your fans have been waiting to hear new music from you for years. They are, however, a great way for a band to get some music out into the world, to supplement an already released album or to preview an upcoming album.
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Best Song of October 2009
October boasted a decent number worthy tracks …and a few that were even better than that.
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The Twilight Saga - New Moon Soundtrack
The soundtrack for New Moon features more big-name bands than its predecessor and, of the eleven artists that contributed a song for Twilight, Muse is the only group to return.
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Best Song of April 2009
For the month of April, there were six songs that made the list. Silversun Pickups with “It's Nice To Know You Work Alone,” “Burning Bridges” from k-os, Immaculate Machine with “Sound The Alarms,” “Pennies” from Lady Sovereign, Bat For Lashes with “Pearl's Dream” and “Gold Guns Girls” from the band that was my favorite for a few years, Metric.
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Metric - Fantasies
The problem with eagerly anticipating a new album from a band that you really like is that when the album finally arrives it is almost always a disappointment.
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Metric: Live at Metropolis
The Canadian indie band Metric recorded a live DVD at the Metropolis theatre in Montreal and cleverly titled it Metric: Live at Metropolis. It came out in February and it’s their first live video, but it wasn’t really what I wanted from them. Last year Metric finally released Grow up and Blow Away, their “debut” album recorded in 2001, and that was equally disappointing.
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