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Album Review: L.A. Salami – The City of Bootmakers

Release Date: April 13, 2018 Label: Sunday Best Recordings If you look closely at the cover of L.A. Salami’s 2018 album, The City of Bootmakers, you’ll notice that he’s leaning up against a wall of cultural signifiers. Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Paul McCartney, Outkast, The White Stripes, Hunter S. Thompson, Kings of Leon, The Velvet … Continue reading Album Review: L.A. Salami – The City of Bootmakers

Album Review: Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

Release Date: April 14, 2008 Label: Fat Cat Records This may well be the most difficult album review I’ve ever written. Not because the music is hard to appraise (I’ll tell you straightaway, The Midnight Organ Fight is a brilliant album), but because of how life can sometimes imitate art. When I started writing this, Scott … Continue reading Album Review: Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

Video Game Review: Pinball FX2 – Sorcerer’s Lair & Mars

PC Release Date: May 10, 2013 Lead Designers: Zen Studios I've talked about the concept of mastery in previous video game reviews. Some games are narrative experiences. Some are strategic affairs where your engagement depends upon the level of your competition. And others fall into the class of repetitive tasks just begging to be mastered … Continue reading Video Game Review: Pinball FX2 – Sorcerer’s Lair & Mars