Category Archives: Popped Culture

The Weeklings editors each answer a pop culture question in this popular parlor game.

My Rock & Roll Paris

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

I was in the land where the creators are revered; Paris greets artists with an affection so strong it gives an energy boost, life force, enabling one to go back to the blank space with faith, with no fear. And indeed, I was not afraid. I was the opposite of afraid. Continue reading →

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John Sebastian and the Younger Generation, 2015

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Amanda Nazario

Amanda Nazario takes us along as she gets to see and meet one of her musical idols, the legendary John Sebastian. Despite the show being in a tiny Boston club with a noisy kitchen, iPhone wielders, and an irritating waitress, Nazario’s superfan heart illuminates the under-appreciated genius in his well-deserved glory. Continue reading →

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WannaBowies: The Top Twenty Bastards of Bowie

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

David Bowie, like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, long ago achieved the status of adjective. For Monday Rock City, Robert Burke Warren lists the Top Twenty Bowie Bastards, i.e. the most Bowie-esque soundalikes, stretching from the 70s to the ‘aughts. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David must be feeling pretty special right about now. Continue reading →

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Popped Culture #8: Culture Comes to an End

Posted on August 21, 2015 by The Editors

Each of The Weeklings’ editors respond to a single pop culture question in this wildly popular parlor game that only has one rule: complete honesty. Continue reading →

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Hasten Down the Wind: Adventures in Babysitting, 1977

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

What to do when you’re 12 and a mysterious, beautiful, troubled woman moves in next door with her four-year-old? You babysit, of course! RBW offers some more summertime musical memoir. Continue reading →

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Love & Mercy and the Saving of Brian Wilson

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

Beach Boy Brian Wilson, musical genius and cultural icon, should have died, but did not. Someone saved him. Who, exactly, did the saving is up for debate. In any case, hot new biopic Love & Mercy, fleshes out the less-familiar trope of “saving the artist,” and our own Robert Burke Warren digs that. Continue reading →

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Dead Finks and Warm Jets: Evolved Enough for Eno

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Mark Donato

Even if you don’t know Brian Eno’s music, you’ve still heard him, in groundbreaking clients Talking Heads, Bowie, U2, and Coldplay, not to mention the 3.5 second chime that heralds the opening of every Microsoft Windows 95 program. (Written by Eno on a Mac.) How did Eno grab the attention of the iconic before they were icons? Guest Weekling Mark Donato answers that question by taking you back to Eno’s fabulous, way-ahead-of-its-time solo work, songs that now sound like blueprints for so much quality late 20th/early 21st century pop. Because they are. Continue reading →

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