Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Sunday Under The Covers: The Curious Case of The White Stripes’ Tegan and Sara Cover

A lot of my writing of late has been focusing on the line between “homage” and “plagiarism” in music, no doubt because it’s also an issue of central importance to two other central areas of my life: online media and comedy. A while back I focused on very public musical plagiarism cases that were ultimately [...]

Google Trends Confirms The Obvious For Knicks, Bulls Fans

The red bar represents Google searches for “nba playoffs 2010″. The blue bar indicates searches for “nba free agents 2010.” Keep in mind, this data goes back to 2008. I like that Toronto, who’ve been good not great over this time with Chris Bosh, kinda form a control group. [Google Trends]

Full Disclosure + Update

Just for the sake of full disclosure, I’m currently working a company that has Sony Music as a main client. All the reviews of bands signed to Sony in the previous post were written before I started the position. That being said, I’m not gonna be covering Sony artists in critical capacities from now on [...]

Tynan’s Record Report – May 2010

Record Report Since Christgau should be enjoying retirement, and since no one else seems to want to take music seriously in the bloggity blog world, the 23-year old founder of the Tynan’s Anger blog has taken it on himself to get real opinions out there that his paycheck doesn’t depend on. Since music should not [...]

“30 Rock” – Best Season Finale Ever

What’s there to say about the ending of 30 Rock this season other than it was amazing, nearly flawless, and as close to perfect as imaginable? It wrapped up all the season’s plot themes perfectly: Jack’s decision between Nancy and Avery was handled with maximum grace as possible. Nancy was the less popular character (even [...]