As someone who never listened to the radio, I’ve got some massive holes in my pop culture knowledge and even in my 40s there are fairly well-known bands I really have no experience with. Classic rock (nowadays considered…oldies? Post-classical?) band […]
I've been playing games regularly for 25 years, and in that time I've really dialed in on what I like and don't like when it comes to board games. And despite today's game being an …
Black metal is a silly genre of medieval posturing, unlistenable production aesthetics, and reprehensible personalities. As such, it is bound to attract a unique set of fans. Today I'm taking a look at …
Silent films were never actually played silent--even prior to the 1900s they almost always had some manner of musical accompaniment. From a simple house pianist to a full blown orchestra for larger cities, there was …
This MFM feature is getting dominated more and more by genre fare, but I've always been a sucker for the delights of genre, all the way back to reading my first Tarzan book in elementary …
Metal [or, at least the metal I listen to] is a simple genre, and if a large part of your riffage is confined to a palm muted e string and simple tremolo picked minor scales …
Despite picking up an odd baroque record every now and then when I'm at an antique mall, it's been tough to find stuff that holds up to the handful of well-curated baroque albums in my …
Metalheads love gatekeeping, and most common way to gatekeep is to keep a running list of UNTRVE bands. Sure, we haven't actually LISTENED to the bands on our list, but we know if we …
Folk music comes in many forms and while most of them are a basically just that dude playing acoustic guitar in Animal House, it's still one of my favorite styles when I'm not listening to …
I'm in the middle of a built-in record shelf project to house my vinyl collection, and, because I'll finally be able to consolidate all of my various overflow shelves into one place, I'm getting pretty …