Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
Rob SheffieldLike most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
Rob SheffieldRebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
Rob SheffieldThe hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.
Rob Sheffield'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Rob Sheffield