The Corporate Curse

Original Published by SFCritic on May 2010 I love MTV Jams. It’s the only channel on TV that plays music videos. Granted, most of the videos are Top 40 rappers surrounded by video hoes gyrating on cars with over-sized rims next to stacks of money. All 50 of their friends are in the video drinking…

Musicians Protest Arizona’s SB 1070

Originally Published by SFCritic Last month, the state of Arizona passed SB 1070, which gives police and other state authorities the jurisdiction to request proof of citizenship from anyone on the street. Internationally, musicians have been the loudest vocal opposition. While a similar law was passed federally in 1986, the new Arizona law is particularly…

Album Review: Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach

Posted by admin on 4/13/10 • Categorized as Album Review,Reviews By Angela Bacca The Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach is not so much a typical album as the soundtrack to a post-modern dystopia of the future. In the opening track of the album “Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach,” Snoop Dogg sits on the orange-skyed polluted beach, blunt in mouth…