Lynz Floren
POP FILTER TOP TEN
THE POP FILTER TOP 40 TV THEME SONGS In which we finally fucking get to 10-1. 10. THE MUPPET SHOW Sometimes the point of a theme song can be to introduce you to the characters, or to the premise of the show. Sometimes it can be nothing more than shit that plays just so the…
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Dry The River This is a British Folk-Rock band which falls squarely in the neo-folk indie style that is all the rage these days. The main thing you will notice is that lead singer Peter Liddle sounds very much like Brandon Flowers, but with a little more earnestness, occasionally conjuring up a Robert Smith-like voice.…
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Good Old War Like a hip, modern Crosby, Stills & Nash, Good Old War delivers harmony-centric fun folk-rock that keeps growing on me the more I listen to it. The lyrics are memorable and the melodies are catchy. I dare you to get this song out of your head: That song is from their new…
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Pop Filter Vs. Arsenic and Old Lace What does a black & white movie from 1944 have do with our lives today? Nothing. That being said, if really like over-acted plays-turned-into movies, antiquated cultural references and forced dialogue, then you might really like this “timeless classic”. If you’ve seen Arsenic & Old Lace, then you…
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My Not-So-Secret Love Affair With Counting Crows This is a hard article to write. The reason for this is probably because I suffer from some inner turmoil related to my Counting Crows fan-dom. I have many debates about music, and I often under-represent my admiration for this band because no matter how well I make…
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AMY RAY If someone told me 15 years ago that half of the Folk-Rock duo Indigo Girls would be making proud, angry, and relevant indie-punk music at 47 years of age, I’m not sure what my reaction would’ve been. Well, that is what Amy Ray is doing these days. Ms. Ray is currently on tour…
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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN META MOVIES 10. AIRPLANE Aside from being perhaps the best comedy of all time, Airplane! is a “meta” masterpiece. A nun, reading an actual ‘Boys Life’ magazine is followed by a boy reading a fictional ‘Nuns Life’ magazine. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball player in real life, plays the co-pilot, who…
Read MoreGood-Pass Filter: SXSW
SO. You didn’t get to go to SXSW this year? Yeah, neither did I…but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying Austin’s antics in a voyeuristic, web-based sorta way. If you’ve been living under a rock since 1987, maybe you don’t know what SXSW is. In a nutshell, it consists of more music than you could…
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Dead Sara Dead Sara is a 4-piece rock band from LA which I would describe as: If Melissa Etheridge was younger, more energetic and raspier and had a more aggressive Silversun Pickups for a band. All of that is to say that lead singer Emily Armstrong is exciting to watch & listen to and her…
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In which one friend, one frenemy, and one full on enemy discuss whatever the hell they want. Luckily, they want to talk about the new Bruce Springsteen album, the hit(ish) new TV show Smash, and the new Pedro Almodovar movie The Skin I Live In. Eat it. Live it. Love it. Eat it. Again.
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