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 always some type of a […]
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 …
It's time for another Movie-watchin' Kumite as 8 more films battle for cinematic supremacy. Once again, I'm sticking with the "all movies must be new to me" rule (though I HAVE seen Golden Voyage …
I know I just did a "going through my C://users/Isley/desktop/organize/RANDOM/desktop_stuff_to_organize folder and posting a bunch of random memes I found" post, but I had a few more memes of a heavy kind. As usual, …
Spaghetti Westerns are not my favorite Form of the Western cinematic experience. Which might be surprising since I usually enjoy a fair amount of cynicism in my films, but for me nothing can beat …