comedy Archive
06 Jul 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for July 2016, Part 3
Five more quick reviews of new or recent album releases. Today features a couple of the best of the week’s bunch. Mike Eldred Trio – Baptist Town Nick Curran‘s Reform […]
08 Dec 2015
“I Don’t Have Any Other Skills!” The Lizz Winstead Interview, Part Two — STORY MOVED
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07 Dec 2015
“I Don’t Have Any Other Skills!” The Lizz Winstead Interview, Part One — STORY MOVED
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14 Jul 2015
Some Long-lost Artist Biographies
Way back in the depths of the Great Recession (2007-2009), one of my former writers (from my time as Editor in Chief of a now-defunct magazine I won’t dignify by […]
05 Jun 2015
McQueen’s Pop Culture Mix of Music, Comedy and Multimedia
“Is it comedy?” asks McQueen rhetorically. “Is it music? Is it the weird hybrid cousin of both who is 32 and still sits at the kids’ table during holidays?” The […]
15 May 2015
Hundred Word Reviews for May 2015, Part 10
Over the last nine business days, I’ve surveyed 45 albums of new, reissued, and/or archival music from a wide array of artists in jazz, prog, soul, rock and other genres. […]
12 Feb 2015
Musical Parody Gets Into a “Grey” Area: 50 Shades! The Musical Parody
Ever since its 2011 printing, E.L. James‘ erotic romance novel 50 Shades of Grey has been an inescapable presence in pop culture. Though as literature – five hundred pages of […]
15 Jan 2015
Album Review: Black & Blue – The Laff Records Collection
A new 4CD collection of vintage comedy records, Black & Blue: The Laff Records Collection exemplifies the abbreviation NSFW (“Not Safe for Work”). The low-budget stand-up comedy records (usually but […]
07 Mar 2014
Hundred-word Reviews: Deluxe Packages
Each of these is a multi-disc set collecting archival (and sometimes previously-unreleased) music, but other than that, there’s little to connect these releases in any stylistic fashion: Celtic soul, proto-funk/pop, […]