“How crazy is it when politicians are a joke and comedians are taken seriously?” On the latest edition of Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace “welcomed” Comedy Central headliner and Daily Show host Jon Stewart to the program, basically to convict him of expressing media bias that Stewart himself doesn’t approve of in his own right. […]
Read more "Jon Stewart Vs. Fox: Why Stewart Is Reigning Champion"Baltimore pop-punk quartet All Time Low has been through a lot since their creation in 2003. Their first single on Hopeless Records, “Coffee Shop Soundtrack,” was poised to bring them up to the prime time punk scene, where was already being dominated by bands like Fall Out Boy and ATL’s inspiration, blink-182. It didn’t break […]
Read more "Review of All Time Low’s “Dirty Work”"Why are concept albums hard to sell? Is it because the stories that the artists/bands try to portray through their music either gets lost in the delivery? Is it because most of the concept albums are made by bands with either little to no audience, or that the audiences just don’t want to invest the […]
Read more "Review of The Dear Hunter’s “The Color Spectrum”"I should’ve known better. Once I heard that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of such profane entertainment including Team America: World Police and South Park, were going to release a Broadway musical, I said to myself, “Maybe they can make a tasteful show.” Parker and Stone have already garnered an Oscar nomination in 2000 […]
Read more "Review of The Book of Mormon Recording"When someone talks about the “Summer Album of the Year,” they usually are talking about someone like Katy Perry, Lil Wayne, or, for the sake of relativity, Lady Gaga. However, there are a couple of gems that shine out from the typical radio songs that get completly overplayed. Last year, it was Neon Trees who […]
Read more "Review of Foster The People’s “Torches”"I remember when I was little; I would be in the car with my parents and would listen to KHITS 96 FM, listening to a great era of music, including The Beatles, Boston, Queen, and James Brown. I remember bobbing my head to his hits, like “I Got You (I Feel Good)” and “Get Up […]
Read more "Review of Raphael Saadiq’s “Stone Rollin'”"If you are on my friends list, you probably have heard me talk about Brink; Bethesda and Splash Damage’s new class based, wall-climbing, objective-completing first person shooter. With all of the beautiful videos (look up the E3 trailer), awesome graphics, and gameplay that looked smooth as silk. I was so ready for this multiplayer epic […]
Read more "Review of Brink (XBOX 360)"Alternative music has never stopped evolving. From the punk of the 80’s, to today’s emo-screamo-killthemall type of headbanging clutter, the alternative scene always tries to move forward, although it does take some misteps (do not listen to Brokencyde aka the worst excuse of music I have ever heard). This past winter, one of the most […]
Read more "Review of Manchester Orchestra’s “Simple Math”"I’m not sure who sees hit movies in the theater even later than I do… maybe people with two kids. But, believe it or not, when I talk about the ending of The Source Code, it may give away the ending. Shocking, I know. I didn’t expect to become enthralled by The Source Code. Not […]
Read more "The Source Code: The Ending and Other Thoughts"Just a week after I wrote about probably the Coen brothers film with the most mystery and depth in A Serious Man, I watched the extremely straightforward Coen brothers version of True Grit. Despite their deviation from their usual eccentricity, I loved the film. The Coen brothers like Tarantino have a knack for propelling a […]
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