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Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by vincenthofmann in Blogs, featured, movie review

I’d be lying if I said I knew where to start when it comes to writing this review. How do you dissect a world so carefully created and beautifully rendered? I feel like a biologist standing scalpel in hand over the body of one of the fantastical creatures featured in Avatar, with absolutely no idea [...]

Slicktiger’s albums of the year ‘09

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by slicktiger in Music, featured

Ok, here are my top 10 albums of 2009, starting from least favourite to favourite:
10. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone.
A really surprising album for me because a) I had no idea who Neko Case was and b) her lyrics are so powerful, you’d swear an angry man wrote them. The second track hooked me the [...]

Review of Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by vincenthofmann in Music, featured, music-reviews

Alice In Chains are the most under-rated grunge band to have ever played and that is a fact.

There were a lot of grunge bands playing back in the 90s that cottoned on to what bands like Nirvana were doing and jumped right in there (yes Bush and Silverchair, I’m looking at you) and hence were [...]

Album Review: Pearl Jam – ‘Backspacer’

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by slicktiger in Music, featured, music-reviews

Pearl Jam is undoubtedly one of the Titans of rock music, the band has been playing for the last 19 years, has recorded 9 studio albums, has sold an estimated 60 million records worldwide and is pretty much the only surviving band of the grunge rock explosion that was the early 90s.
You’d be hard pressed to [...]