Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Five Questions Raised by the New M.I.A. “Born Free” video

Will the American media take the bait and start the controversy that M.I.A. is clearly hoping to provoke? If not, does this mean that new music is really that irrelevant to American culture anymore? How many people will get the rudimentary detainee metaphor that red hair=brown skin? Will the song’s resemblance to Suicide make it [...]

Video of the Day: Your 33 Black Angels – "Lover’s Limbo"

Self-relesaed albums are a tricky proposition even in this bold-new internet musical economy. Usually, it depends on which critic happens to pick up your album out of the bin and likes it. Rolling Stone was the first to give Your 33 Black Angels a vote of confidence on their fantastic debut album Lonely Street, but [...]

The Best is Left Unspoken: Radiohead’s "Just" video and John Osborne’s The Entertainer

Image via Wikipedia Few music videos have ever drawn as much endless debate, controversy, and mystery as Radiohead’s “Just.” One of the highlights of their second album The Bends, the album that established Radiohead as international leaders of anthemic alternative rock,”Just” is one of the better songs Radiohead ever recorded. Strangely, the band may actually [...]