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Why Genesis Deserves an Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

By Michael Saba on 3:30 PM on September 24, 2009

Genesis is something of an ugly duckling to rock 'n' roll's more well-regarded swans. It's the sort of band that some reflexively sneer at, while others...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Salute Your Shorts: Tezuka Osamu's Experimental Animation

By Sean Gandert on 4:00 PM on August 6, 2009

With Phil Mulloy’s films, it’s easy to see the gradual development of an artist. Even though he’d been working in the industry for years, Mulloy’s animation had a textbook level of gradual improvement that’s easy to follow from point A to B. By the time Osamu Tezuka began working in animation, he was already a widely popular manga artist and seemed to arrive fully formed...  read more

Found in: Movies, Features

Seven Brilliant, Terrible and Brilliantly Terrible Metal Covers of Pop Songs

By Michael Saba on 7:00 AM on August 3, 2009

Your average metal band usually has wildly different musical sensibilities from top 40 radio pop (and that goes double for said average metal band's fans). But is there really any good reason for that other than genre segregation that forbids metal fans from rubbing their leather-clad elbows with bubblegum popsters? That question may remain unanswered for now, but some metal acts are bridging the divide with covers of pop tracks that range from excellent to execrable. Let's take a look, and see how they stack up against the originals....  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

Genesis 1970 - 1975

By Andy Whitman on 11:51 AM on October 9, 2008

So this is it, the Mother of All Prog Box Sets, the one that will send the snarling punks scurrying to buy mellotrons and shimmering wizard robes. The bare details:  7 remastered CDs, 6 DVDs, and a book. Skipping the forgettable Genesis debut album From Genesis to Revelation, this box chronicles the Peter Gabriel years, and the Peter Gabriel albums:  Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, and the 2-disc The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and adds a seventh disc of previously unreleased rarities and outtakes. It presents five video hours of the band in 2007 Boring...  read more

Found in: Blogs, Andy Whitman on Music