Welcome back to part two of our annual music wrap-up. Today we award the Platinum LPs, given for superior achievement. (If you missed part one, click here to review the Gold LP winners, updated to include three inadvertent omissions.) These appear in no particular order.
The Birthday Massacre: Walking with Strangers
Toronto’s The Birthday Massacre is a study in contradictions. Read more
Last week on SVR we looked at some of 2007’s top female artists, so this week it seemed appropriate to offer props to some of the guys responsible for outstanding CDs this year. We’ll start with CD of the Year candidate The Good, the Bad & the Queen, fronted by former Blur and Gorillaz auteur Damon Albarn, who’s shaping up as one of the true geniuses of our age.
Next, another CD of the Year frontrunner. Read more
Welcome back to another edition of Scholars & Rogues’ Saturday Video Roundup.
Today we begin with television cooking shows, which are getting weirder with each passing day. (Thx to Wendie the C in the L to da A.)
Next we take you for a ride on the wayback machine to a scene from high school. I mean, this is how your high school was, right? Read more
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