Welcome to the home of the Culture Tsar. Here you will find an assortment of skreeds and pronouncements on various aspects of pop culture, including music, film, games, and political media. Love him or hate him, the Culture Tsar promises to always be interesting.
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Musical Discoveries: 2018 Edition
The Culture Tsar often finds himself in a bit of musical bind. There’s a ton of music out there worth listening to (and not worth listening to, but more on that in a minute) and so many ways access it, but sometimes it’s difficult to find the motivation to take a chance on new music. …
David Lynch’s “Dune”
Later tonight, The Culture Tsar is going to a special showing of David Lynch’s Dune, the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel. Dune has been The Culture Tsar’s favorite novel for decades now, with nothing much else coming even close to it. There’s really no other book that provides the same combination …
The Need for a “Cover Song Council”
When you wind up killing a lot of time in coffee shops like The Culture Tsar, you find yourself subjected to quite a lot of music selections you might not ordinarily choose. Setting aside the weird trend of Starbucks starting to feature bands a few weeks after The Culture Tsar writes about them (Cut Copy, …
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The Culture Tsar got its start as an inside joke about harshly declaring certain musical artists “Enemies of the People” for inflicting their poor tastes upon the listening masses. After getting off the ground as a Blogspot blog site about a decade ago, the Culture Tsar posted articles as a featured section on www.benjaminsperduto.com for several years before once again branching off to his own website in 2019.
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