MODERN BASEBALL Avoiding the drain of the “emo revival.” JESSICA FLYNN MODERN BASEBALL really want you to believe they’re just four ordinary kids. This is a band that made a name for itself by writing painfully topical songs about obsessing over a crush’s social media presence—something virtually every millennial can relate to. In reality, Modern […]
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Modern Baseball’s Graduation
Holy Ghost Is Mature Emo
Modern Baseball’s new album Holy Ghost is mature emo.
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The New Sincerity of Tim Heidecker’s In Glendale
TIM HEIDECKER Not joking around. CARA ROBBINS WHETHER IT’S the jingoist sendup “Our Values Are Under Attack” from web series Decker or the bizarre and indelible Cinco jingles from the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! universe, music has long been an important pillar of Tim Heidecker’s Kafka-esque comedy. The comedian and musician’s first […]
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With Portland Changing So Fast, Can the Lloyd Center Mall Keep Up?
The glory days of the Lloyd Center Mall. HISTORICPHOTOARCHIVE.COM I BELONG to the last generation of mall rat. My experiences at the Lloyd Center Mall as a kid transcended commerce—it was where I had my first brushes with counterculture, whether it was the first CD I ever picked out that could tenuously be considered “punk” […]
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The “Real” Tim Heidecker
The New Sincerity of the Comedian’s In Glendale
The new sincerity of the comedian’s In Glendale.
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Death of the Mall Rat
Portland Is Changing—Can the Lloyd Center Mall Keep Up?
Portland is changing—can the Lloyd Center Mall keep up?
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A Commentary on Dream Theater’s Magnum Opus
The Astonishing Is Two Hours and 10 Minutes of Sci-Fi Proggery
The Astonishing is two hours and 10 minutes of sci-fi proggery.
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Sheer Mag’s Modern Rock
SHEER MAG Shunning the press. MARIE LIN FIVE YEARS AGO, punk came in only three shades of cool: hardcore, screamo, and math rock (or some sexless composite of these). The ’90s weren’t “in” yet, an emo dance party at Holocene would have seemed surreal, and crusty arbiters of taste reflexively dismissed anything sounding even vaguely […]
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Don’t Believe the Bad Reviews: Star Fox Zero Is a Love Letter to the Nintendo Faithful
The Star Fox series is Nintendo’s guinea pig: Following 1997’s Star Fox 64, every entry in the series is totally distinct. 2002’s Star Fox Adventures exchanged the first two games’ signature shoot-em-up gameplay for dungeon-crawling and turgid storytelling (the fact it bears no likeness to previous Star Fox games makes sense, as developer Rare had […]