Laird’s Library: One Blog Wonders
For my latest Laird’s Library mix I decided to go with bands that only have one song in their folder on my hard drive. So, in essence, I liked a track, wrote about it, and...
Monthly Archive: July 2015
Movie Breakdown: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Noah)
The Impression: You can call me a fan of the Mission Impossible franchise. Sure, like everyone else who has eyes and was forced to be subjected to John Woo’s second Mission Impossible film, I understand...
Ought
I really love Ought. Frontman Tim Darcy’s rambly but somehow on-point vocal style is one of the more interesting things out there right now, and I just can’t get enough of it. Below you’ll find...
Movie Breakdown: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
The Impression: The fifth entry into the Mission: Impossible series has arrived. There’s no reason to not be excited. The Reality: If I were to count how many truly bad movies that Tom Cruise has...
Show Of The Week
Gorilla vs Bear 5 (with Jamie XX, Lower Dens, Bop English, Tei Shi, Yumi Zouma, Prince Innocence) looks like an amazing time, but it’s sold out. You can’t go. So, instead I think your goal...
Movie Breakdown: Vacation
The Impression: Vacation has been given an update (thankfully, it’s more of a spiritual sequel than an outright reboot) with Ed Helms and Christina Applegate. The trailers have been somewhat hit or miss on the...
El Ten Eleven
I pretty much missed the boat on the two singles that El Ten Eleven recently put out, so I’m rectifying that today by delivering both of them to you. The duo have long been one...
Quickdraw: Kurt Vile, Night Beds, Here We Go Magic, Pure Bathing Culture, Ramesh And Emeen
Music! Enjoy. :Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin: Here’s a catchy new rambler from Kurt Vile. The guy just gets better and better with age, don’t you think? B’lieve I’m Goin Down is due out September...
Hip Hop Hooray (Leah)
Something big is coming back to Austin, and it’s something that I care deeply about – it’s Weird City Hip Hop Fest. We’ve only just made the initial artist announcement, but it includes some really...
Negative Scanner (Noah)
We live in a world of polish these days. Movies, animated or otherwise, are for the most part just very realistic cartoons with live-actors squished in front of green screens. Our most popular books are...
