Music! Enjoy. :Big Grams – Lights On: Here’s the latest from Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram). The previous single felt like Phantogram guesting on a Big Boi track, and this one is pretty much...
I’ve been obsessed with Taylor Swift’s 1989 for months now. At first I think it sort of started as a joke (playing Blank Space off of those terrible TouchTunes machines that are in bars), and...
While tooling around this morning I came across Widowspeak covering Third Eye Blind’s How’s It Going To Be, and it just completely hit the right spot. Back in my teen days I blasted TEB’s self...
The Impression: I don’t know if there’s been a more invigorating trailer this year than the one for Scott Cooper’s newest film Black Mass. I mean sure, it features Johnny Depp not in some sort...
The Impression: Great cast, but a trailer and a promise of IMAX excitement that makes me think this could be all visual flash and no substance. The Reality: Everest feels like a 1980s event film....
The Impression: I only saw The Maze Runner because for a while it was on HBO every two to three hours. I thought it was okay. The Scorch Trials looks like it features even more...
I should be totally selfish this week and only tell you to come to the show I’m DJ’ing (it’s Thursday at Cheer Up Charlie’s for The Harms’ vinyl release show) or the next Red Bull Sound...
While I was out bumbling around in Las Vegas yesterday the Adult Swim Singles series delivered a legit gem – a collaboration between Ghostface Killah and DOOM known as Doomstarks. Supposedly the two have completed...
Music! Enjoy. :Big Grams – Fell In the Sun: Phantogram and Big Boi are Big Grams. The former are good here, but it’s the latter that makes the track memorable. He just straight up just...
The Impression: After the three-punch combo of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, M. Night Shaymalan had established himself not only as a great director, but, at the time, as my personal favorite director. The...
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