Last year my friends and I had a running joke revolving around the fact that we had “stolen” cable that provided us with the basics, ESPN and…well, just usually ESPN. So, as the joke goes, because we were so obviously easy going with our money that we had no problems squandering it on visual [...]

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Punk. It has changed from a term labeling a condensed segment of society’s outcasts to that which labels pop culture accessories and commercial music. Heralded Vancouver first wave punk icons, The Subhumans, reignite its reputation with the recent release on Alternative Tentacles New Dark Age Parade. The album serves as the reuniting [...]

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This year has had mixed results in terms of reemerging classic rock idols. With that, Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band are tossing their collective hat in the ring further questioning aging rock icons’ relevance. Bruce Springsteen’s release was met with a highly mixed reaction while Tom Petty found an invigorated career [...]

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Mere weeks after its release Mastodon’s Blood Mountain is being hailed as an epic return to metal’s roots by one of the genre’s modern day pioneers. Not only accepted by the entire gamut of rock fan, but rock critic as well, Blood Mountain’s takes a break from modern prog and clashes with speed, grind [...]

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All things considered, the last two weeks were fairly big for the Scissor Sisters. The band released its latest album, “Ta-Dah!,” and found itself performing on both Dancing With The Stars and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Though for the longest time I couldn’t stomach the band’s 70’s throwback sound/style, I’ve found it [...]

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the most (factually accurate) Nicolay collaborators on his new album Here and email your results to chris at culturebully dot com. The good folks at Worlds Fair are putting this together and the person who identifies the most collaborators will win a signed [...]

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Netherlands-born producer/performer Nicolay recently stepped into strange territory with the release of his recent album Here. It serves as his first solo endeavor and glides through ambient instrumentals feathered with collaboration heavy bangers. His music stands as somewhat of a high ground street opera, serving as a window into the diary of a [...]

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This video is crazy. (…but seriously, it’s another innovative video providing further evidence that Gnarls Barkley has produced not only one of the better albums of the year with St. Elsewhere, but some of the best music videos of the year)

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What I know of The Slits is more myth than anything, with my knowledge finding its beginning back in the time when The Trouser Press Record Guide was a key influence in my daily music purchases. Recorded in the summer of 2005, Revenge of the Killer Slits, is a seemingly full-fledged return for the [...]

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As a conclusion to this month long contest I would like to thank everyone who entered! Hopefully I’ll have the gumption to try something like this again in the future…but for now, here’s a list of who won this time around:

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