Josie and the Pussycats #1 Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Diordio (w), Audrey Mok (p) Archie Comics September 28, 2016
Don’t Take Off Your Headphones: A Playlist
Earlier this week, Twitter user @yophoebs unearthed an awful article titled “How to Talk to a Woman Who is Wearing Headphones,” written by a definitely awful person named Dan Bacon, and from an equally awful website called “The Modern Man.” While the article is a few years old, it described an eerily familiar experience of…
Mom’N’Pop Culture: How a Song Sparked a Discussion on Consent
Meghan Trainor’s peppy song “No” may get mixed reviews and some serious hate from the “rejected,” but the message in the lyrics is clear. It doesn’t matter how a woman is dressed or how she dances, she has the right to say no to unwanted advances. Even though I understand the meaning of the lyrics, instead of…
6 Ways Movie Scores and Soundtracks Go Horribly Wrong
Movie scores and soundtracks are an integral part of the movie experience. When they work right, just a few bars of the theme song or a key part of the soundtrack, brings us back memories of the film itself. But for every auteur carefully assembling, timing and tuning a soundtrack that speaks to us, and…
ONE, TWO, ONE TWO THREE FOUR! : The Sounds of Josie & The Pussycats
As I said in my Black Canary EP review, I am an absolute sucker for fictional bands. Since hearing about CW’s Riverdale, I’ve been antsy to hear some music from the new Josie and the Pussycats. The new band will be lead by Ashleigh Murray playing Josie McCoy, the lead singer and guitarist of the…
Kesha vs Dr. Luke
Content warning: this article discusses rape and abuse. The Kesha case against Dr. Luke now has it’s own Wikipedia page, which means that this shitshow of humans failing to be decent is officially ingrained in the collective unconscious. This lawsuit is unprecedented in a lot of ways, but legal disputes between musicians and their record labels…
The Music of Hamilton: WWAC Shares the Songs That Blew Us All Away
It’s safe to say that if you haven’t heard about the hit musical Hamilton by now, you will soon. Grammy performance aside, the show has been capturing attention outside of theatre circles since it premiered on Broadway last summer. The core of Hamilton’s story is told through forty-six evocative and creative tracks, all written by Lin-Manuel…
Get In Formation: 3 Takes On Beyoncé’s Lemonade
JAM and Insha both joined Ardo in sharing their feelings regarding Beyoncé’s new visual album Lemonade. It premiered on HBO as a special event two weeks ago and you can watch it for yourself over on Tidal, iTunes, or the physical album which you can order online (I pre-ordered it myself). It was … an experience. Somali-British poet, Warsan…
The Midnighter Playlist: How Music Enhances Comics
If you travel to fandom spaces online, you will find something that might surprise you. One of the many ways fans expand upon the experience of watching their favorite television shows or reading their favorite books is by finding thematically related songs or making entire playlists to associate with these characters. This is merely a…
6 Movie Scores and Soundtracks to Level Up Your Day
One of the great frustrations of being a bookworm, gamer, comics addict, or film devotee is knowing that the real world will never quite measure up to the ones in our favorite fictional worlds. It will never be quite as exciting, dramatic, romantic, or perilous: our world is mundane. The ones we devour through books and…
5 Things I Learned from Watching Idol Scandals Unfold
It wasn’t long after my first tentative steps into learning about East Asian pop culture that I came across an inescapable and fascinating part of the entertainment industry: Idol scandals. They range from disrespect and rude remarks to full-on sex scandals and everything in between. Some idols emerge unscathed, the attention only fueling their popularity. Others…