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Apocalyptica: Worlds Collide - PopMatters Review

Apocalyptica: Worlds Collide - PopMatters Review

I’ve been finishing a lot of homework lately. This Apocalyptica album had been lying around for months. If I had written the review immediately after receipt it would have been a lot different. The album grew on me after a while. I was very disappointed when I first heard it. The resulting review was something [...]

Doctor Who Special 20 - The Series Four Companion

Doctor Who Special 20 - The Series Four Companion

It landed on my mat today. The twentieth Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition came wrapped in its slightly torn brown wrapper. I like to think that the wrapper was torn not because of the long trip from Leicestershire to the Netherlands but because its contents were bursting to get out. 148 pages of features on [...]

Whitesnake: Good To Be Bad - PopMatters Review

Whitesnake: Good To Be Bad - PopMatters Review

I had a lot of fun with this review. OK I sound a little disparaging in places but I quite enjoyed the album in a funny sort of way. It reminded me of my youth. There is also a certain irony in the fact that I noticed Amazon is packaging this album and the new [...]

Spoilers

Spoilers

WARNING: No actual spoilers are contained in this post.
In today’s information rich society it is nigh impossible to get through the day without finding out new information. Quite often you learn things that you would rather have not found out in the first place or wish that you could un-learn. Obviously I am quite guilty [...]

Asia: Phoenix - PopMatters Review

Asia: Phoenix - PopMatters Review

So this review was a long time coming. I have been so busy of late I let a lot of these PopMatters reviews pile up. I kind of wish that I hadn’t bothered with this one. It was pretty painful to write and even more so to listen to. What can I say, ASIA just [...]