9.75 Jay-Z once famously wrote that you often remember where you were when you first heard your favorite songs. The same is also true for video games. I’ll never forget the first time my dad ever let me play one. I was three years old, and it was the first level of Star Wars Shadows…
Burnes’ Turns is often an all-inclusive affair, but this may be the most varied edition yet. From Heavy Metal anthems to greedy, lusty Punk feasts, to a Japanese-tinged suite of four tracks composed by three different men that clocks in at only around 4 minutes, there’s something here for everyone. A reminder that you never…
***** Pure poetry. That’s what Bob Dylan offered with his monumental release at the beginning of his career in 1963 with The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. About half of it was not only significantly important social commentary for all time (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Masters of War,” “Oxford Town”). Another solid portion was made up of…
After one of the worst months for RAW in history, the men and women who make up the roster must pull out all the stops to take their brand out of the painful rut they’re in. A lack of interest plagues every match of the night; hell, I don’t even know what all of the…
**** When I first prepared to listen to The White Album nearly a year ago, I fully expected to hate it. I have a strange sort of relationship with The Beatles; they’re one of my favorite bands and stir up a rather broad spectrum of emotions in me when I listen to them. They’re one…
It’s been several weeks since my last Burnes’ Turns entry, and in that time I’ve been exposed to a number of great tracks in the multitude of video games I’ve been revisiting and experiencing for the first time. I don’t own any of them, but count pretty much every track that appears in a Bethesda-helmed…
In a move that Survivor fans across the country applauded, tonight’s episode produced Adam Klein’s epic betrayal of the Millennials by allowing the elimination of the season’s most infamous player: Figgy. Not only does this keep my pick for winner of the season, Ken McNicle, alive in the game, it created another memorable moment for…
9 Over the course of Pokemon’s 20-year history, Game Freak has never released a duo of games that were as divisive as Black and White. For many, the game’s removal of all of the familiar Pokemon in the series’ past (from Pikachu to Garchomp) in favor of a brand new cast of foreign, strange-looking critters…
Tonight’s episode of Survivor is the best yet in a season that appeared to be doomed for mediocrity in the beginning, but has benefited from some key players and a significant twist: tonight’s separation of the two rather static tribes into three dynamic ones. As a result, the fight between the Gen-Xers and Millennials took…
9.5 It’s been a long time since I have played a videogame and come away without a negative thing to say. In fact, until I played Halo 3, it had really only happened three times. Earning a perfect score isn’t an easy thing for a videogame to accomplish; they’re much longer and more involved than…
The Soundtrack Online 