Listen Here: Baa-Dee-Ah

Listen Here is a monthly playlist picked and curated by members of the Deadshirt staff around a certain theme. This month’s theme is Early Autumn, with a playlist selected by Mike Duquette. I’ve lived in my first apartment a whole year as of September 6, so, Read More …

Deadshirt Is Listening… Surprised Shouting and Spinning

Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Julian Ames is surprised by… “What Read More …

Deadshirt Is Listening… Saying Yes To Prom Dancing

Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Dominic Griffin is prom dancing to… Read More …

“We Don’t Need Roads”: Caseen Gaines and the Best Back to the Future Book Ever [Interview]

When I think of Back to the Future, the time-travel comedy that’s captivated millions of moviegoers since its release in 1985 (along with two surprisingly sturdy sequels in 1989 and 1990), I think about the “universal question” that Christopher Lloyd’s mad scientist Emmett L. “Doc” Brown asks in a Read More …

Deadshirt Is Listening… Revving Up, and Waving Lighters

Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Mike Duquette is revving up to… Read More …

Long Way Down: The Strange Brilliance of “Holiday Road”

July 24, 2015 saw a bizarre, inevitably underreported musical phenomenon occur: WaterTower Music, Warner Bros.’ soundtrack arm, released the companion album to the new film Vacation, a record anchored by three unique versions of Lindsey Buckingham’s “Holiday Road,” the theme to 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation. Those versions—a remix of Read More …

Deadshirt Is Listening… Charging Up, Beaming

Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Mike Duquette is beaming to… “A Read More …

Listen Here: “Hot” Songs For Cool People

Listen Here is a monthly playlist picked and curated by members of the Deadshirt staff around a certain theme. This month’s theme is “’Hot’ Songs,” with a playlist selected by several Deadshirt staffers and curated by music editor Julian Ames. It’s July, it’s the summer, and in many places that means hot Read More …

Terminator Genisys: Old, Nearly Obsolete [Review]

There’s something very déjà vu about all this. Not long ago I was an excited 13-year-old playing and replaying VHS copies of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron’s wildly different but endlessly engaging tales of killer robot-assisted future nuclear apocalypse and the Read More …