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Joe Rivers is absent this week, so luckily we're able to turn to one our skilled music writers to... wait - what's that? A film writer is reviewing the new singles? Well, it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.

Maybe all that Lohan stuff we laugh at hits too close to home

Why can't music stand alone? Frequently, an artist will be unnaturally grouped within a movement, so why is it this supposedly more engaging than something solitary?

Andrew Baer thinks that music in the years from 1987-1993 was the beginning of the current micro-era of music. Is he uncannily observant or an idiot? Weigh in on his theory here. 

Three up and coming bands go under the spotlight in our brand new column.

Is it my imagination, or did the Super Bowl ads tell us something scary is afoot in America?

How about we stop studying our own entrails and join the party?

Nick Fenn reflects on a golden age of US satire in his fourth TV Magic column.

In the third edition of his television column, Nick Fenn examines the Sopranos and Mad Men as modern existential fables.

Dexter is a forensic expert, a family man, and a murderous psychopath. This, of course, makes for pretty entertaining television.