Cymbals Eat Guitars cut their teeth playing Weezer covers. But the sound of their impressive debut is more akin to that of Modest Mouse, Built To Spill and Pavement. The album is so solid and self-assured, it bears mention in the same breath with Vampire Weekend’s 2008 breakthrough.
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Watchmen fanboys knew Zack Snyder’s adaptation of everyone’s favorite anti-hero book wasn’t going to be perfect. But while many grumbled about a missing SQUID, it was Dr. Manhattan’s very present member that really made them squeamish. Michael Munro isn’t surprised.
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The “unfilmable” Watchmen has been filmed, and treated rather fairly. But there’s an even more ambitious comic book title that we’d love to see on the Silver Screen — Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. And we’ve already got the casting covered.
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Joss Whedon returns to television — and FOX? — with Dollhouse, an action drama about a futuristic bordello that imprints average people with extraordinary personalities. The concept is bold, classic Whedon, but the execution so far has been spotty.
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In honor of J. Namdev Hardisty’s New Skateboard Graphics we found some seven-ply eye candy for you to ogle.
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Middle Cyclone picks you up, spins you around, lets you think about it for a while and then dumps you in a field at dusk to find your own way home. It fully redeems the patience of Neko Case fans, who have anxiously awaited her first solo release in almost two years.
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You can spend many hazy-eyed hours searching for your new desktop background on flickr. Or you can rummage this list of choice photos for your aesthetic fix.
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Dark Was The Night is filled with performers that work so well together, songs that hew so closely to the compilations’s theme, musical and lyrical experiments so bold and interesting, that you can’t help but play the album over and over again.
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While bands like M83 and Cut Copy push digital-age infusion of the My Bloody Valentine sound, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have done the opposite, releasing an album more reminiscent of 1980s-era Morrissey.
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Geek Editor Daniel Crown counts down the Top 10 Comic Books of 2008. And independent books dominate the list.
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