Unwinnable

Today, in 1965, Trent Reznor was born. Chances are he was screaming and making electronic music. What are you doing this weekend?
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On this date, in 1962, Marvel’s first issue of The Incredible Hulk was published. We have been puny humans ever since. What are you doing this weekend?
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At the bar tonight, I stared at my phone in disbelief. Clash of the Titans, it told me, hit theaters in 1981. That meant the world had been without a new Ray Harryhausen movie for over 30 years. Now that he is gone, this seemed – seems – a travesty. (more…)

“The Third of May, 1808“  is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (more…)

We are excited to have freelance pop culture critic Rowan Kaiser on a very special Unlistenable!

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John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia on this day. Then there was BioShock Infinite. Well, what are you doing this weekend?
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Remember when Elvis’s hip shake was the most scandalous thing about music? Us neither. As soon as music could be recorded and reproduced, it pushed up against the polite boundaries of society. For over 130 years, music has used its unique ability to shock in order to question authority (“Fuck the Police“), religion (“Dear God“) and politics (“Maggie“), but no other subject has had so many taboos shattered by song than sex. So, for Sex Week, we’ve collected the sexiest, dirtiest, perviest songs we could find and mixed them together into two of the naughtiest hours of pounding drums, penetrating guitars and moaning vocals that your ears will ever hear.   (more…)