New thing: http://samirmathur.tumblr.com/ Bookmark it, add it to RSS readers, do whatever it is you do. We had a nice run here, but I've...

Since it’s part of the Blogger Terms of Service that, if you have a blog, you have to post lists in the last three weeks of every year, I’m ...

Here are links to things I've written in the last couple of months. Perhaps you'd like to give them a read. Recently, I've been ...

Hey dudes As you'll have noticed, I don't write in here a whole lot. But I have started writing about music and comedy at The Daily ...

After falling for The Hold Steady about four years after it was cool to do so, I was terribly excited to go and see them live this past week...

Hey guys, I'm going to be covering the Florida Film Festival , which begins later this week, for Hollywood Elsewhere. My first post, a k...

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Screaming Females Tallahassee, Club Downunder April 3, 2010 …But first, let me tell you about my journey to Ta...

Though I've been known to complain about good touring bands rarely making it to my part of the world, I honestly do realize that central...

I had some long stretches of drivin' to do recently, so in the absence of an iPod dock in my car, or any radio stations that ignore ...

Hey, you guys, I wrote a review of Julie Klausner 's hot new book 'I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rocke...

Last year, I saw precisely one live gig. In the entire year. This is the fewest since I was eleven years old, and frankly I'm ashamed a...

I never remember dreams, so it's remarkable that this one, from last night, has stuck with me for an entire day. Psychoanalyists, start ...

Holy Moses, it's been a while since I wrote in here, hasn't it? Why, the last time there was new content on Are You Gene Hackman, it...

Since everyone with a website and hands is pre-occupied at the moment with making lists, here’s one I made about films that I like. I don’t ...

Unlike some of the other bands mentioned in here thus far, My Vitrol were actually from London, and as such, there was an eighteen month pe...

It's that time again, another band I quite like have called it quits. http://www.nme.com/news/the-rakes/47980 A statement from the band ...

I'll admit it. JJ72 was one of the first bands I really fell in love with from the ground floor. First heard about them in Select, inter...

I've been meaning to write about Matt Braunger 's standup album 'Soak Up The Night' for a while, but didn't get around t...

The other day I mentioned a genre called ' The Scene with No Name ', which a) did, in fact, have a name, and b) it was a fucking stu...

Well, we moved into the new place. You know what's a whole bucket-ton of fun? Carrying eight car loads worth of stuff across a car park,...

Since the inaugural post in the new series was a runaway, resounding success that people are still talking about worldwide in hushed, revere...

I'm moving house this week, and as such, cleaning out the existing house. Trying to get rid of stuff that I really don't need anymor...

My little sister, who is very busy and important, went to see Colin MacIntyre last week, here's her review. Colin MacIntyre The Living ...

When I was in London in March, I had a conversation with my friend Tom 1 about the big-screen adaptation of David Peace’s hugely acclaimed ...

As you know, I don't update this site much. Consequently, the site gets - at best - modest hits. I've a decent collection of archive...

This week sees the release of the new Muse album, their fifth, entitled ‘The Resistance’. I’ve not yet listened to it, so I can’t write abou...

Rather than pick up physical copy of David Cross’ new book, I Drink For A Reason , like some sort of pre-historic Luddite Neanderthal, I too...

A quick glance at my friends’ statuses on the Facebook will confirm: It’s college football season again. At the time of writing this, seven ...

There once was a time, a darker time, let’s call it the late 1990s, when I was a big, big fan of the band Manic Street Preachers. I’ve menti...

Well, I'm back, everyone! The Bar Exam has been taken and - hopefully - vanquished, and now I'm back home, searching for jobs, swimm...