Hardened Western-watchers will have noticed that, after two fairly lean decades for the genre, it's back in style, with Brokeback Mountain, A History of Violence, Serenity, Don't Come Knockin', Four Brothers and The Three Burials of Melquiadas Estrada all drawing either explicitly or implicitly on the genre recently, and Andrew Dominik's big-budget ( Read more... )

I'm greatly enjoying copying my CDs onto my hard drive, largely because of the inscrutable little "genre definitions" RealPlayer attaches to them. Apparently, Radiohead's My Iron Lung EP is art rock, whereas David Bowie's 1.Outside is hard rock. I think that anyone who's heard 1.Outside should agree with the suggestion that if anything is art ( Read more... )