Steve Secular
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ssecula1@binghamton.edu
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Music
Drugs, surfing and more drugs: A Beach Boys Chronicle
Getting started with the Beach Boys. ...
Arts & Culture
Everyone’s a critic: Why movies today don’t seem to measure up
As a culture, we have become more literate, more savvy in examining our films or even our television shows. ...
Movies
M. Ward delivers on sophomore album
M. Ward’s latest endeavor, “A Wasteland Companion” (the follow-up to 2009’s “Hold Time”), is everything we’ve come to expect from him in recent years. ...
Music
New sound for Shins album
I’ve had these songs stuck in my head since the minute I hit “play.” ...
Arts & Culture
“Life’s Too Short” underwhelms
Warwick Davis is the weak link in "Life's Too Short." ...
Arts & Culture
Remastered U2 album brings new acclaim to a classic
It’s a difficult task to qualify what makes a great album a great one. Over time, it becomes increasingly hard to separate why those older, iconic albums were important in the past...
Arts & Culture
Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album lackluster
"I'm With You," the Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest effort, is not a bad album. It's just, well, not good. ...
Arts & Culture
Despite reality fodder, TV enters a "Golden Age"
One only needs to look at the weekly lineups of MTV or VH1 to see that we are in a new era of television. ...