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...youth culture. LMF members have spawned their own clothing lines, inspired a line of popular action figures and are the subject of a documentary that is spinning through filmmaker Louis Tan's editing room right now. They are a one-band, underground entertainment conglomerate, earning vast amounts of street cred instead of big bucks. And whether they like it or not, mainstream acceptance is on its way. Last month, the band performed alongside Countess of Canto-pop Sammi Cheng when she sold out the 20,000-seat Hong Kong Coliseum 11 nights...
...long ago, a minimum of two Pavement albums was de rigeur for anyone who took their indie rock cred seriously. With the band’s break-up, this is perhaps no longer the case, and it remains to be seen whether Stephen Malkmus will fly his solo flag quite as high as the Pavement. In the meantime, the other smithereen of the Pavement disintegration, led by ex-Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs (all guitarists should have names this cool) has come into its own under the moniker Preston School of Industry. Preston’s debut album, All This Sounds...
...this is watchable enough, because Lonergan writes sharp dialogue and has more respect for plot than many playwrights these days. But none of it sticks to the ribs. Some blame goes to the actors (as Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story...
...Sports rise on their personalities, as the NBA did on the wings of Bird, Magic and Michael in the '80s and '90s, and NASCAR on Sunday lost its brightest star. But new levels of popularity (and demographic profitability) are not built on 49-year-olds. Earnhardt's old-school cred might have come in handy for a sport that can expect trouble from its traditionalists the more successful it becomes, and for a true NASCAR believer there was always Earnhardt to cut the bitter taste of pretty-boy superstar Jeff Gordon...
...real. He was slim. and boy, was he shady. Rapper Marshall Mathers (a.k.a. Eminem, a.k.a. the Real Slim Shady) repulsed us all the way to the bank. Well aware that he was that old story--a white boy disproportionately rewarded for mastering a black art form--he earned critical cred with brilliant, gymnastic rhymes. But his lyrics, dripping with hate for women and gays, made parents reel, gave pop-culture-bashing pols a poster boy and posed critics a conundrum: Where does new-school rebellion stop and old-school bigotry begin...