Monthly Archive: October 2015

Movie Breakdown: Steve Jobs

The Impression: The trailers for Steve Jobs have looked fairly interesting, but as much as I like Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender, I still wish the dream combo of “written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by...

Movie Breakdown: Bridge Of Spies (Noah)

The Impression: A new Steven Spielberg film is an event. I don’t care if he made the fourth Indiana Jones film and I don’t care if kids today want giant explosions and scantily clad women...

Field Music

It’s weird how festival hangovers tend to hit me two days later, not the morning after.  Anyone else get that?  At any rate, while hazily browsing around this morning I noticed that the UK-based act...

Quickdraw: EL VY, Nocando, Haybaby, Torres, Tortoise

Music!  Enjoy. :EL VY – Paul Is Alive:  Here’s the latest gem from EL VY, which is Matt Berninger (The National) and Brent Knopf (Menomena, Ramona Falls).  Hard not to have super high expectations for...

Show Of The Week

ACL is one again set to reign supreme this weekend, but if you need something smaller, there’s still plenty of shows going down outside of the fest that will surely be great.  I’m all about...

Run The Jewels

ACL: Volume 1 came and went this past weekend, and one of my favorite parts of it was Run The Jewels’ set.  Killer Mike and El-P are operating at the top of their game right...

Bayonne

Local fav Roger Sellers has all kinds of nice things happening right now.  He just nabbed Bayonne as his official moniker, Mom + Pop Music (Courtney Barnett, Andrew Bird) will be putting out his next...

Happy Metal Fun Time (Chuck)

It’s that time where we get to examine the upcoming festivals for all of you who are into that sort of thing. I know that ACL starts today, and I don’t particularly care. They don’t...

Sweet Talk (Dan)

A few years ago I selected Pickup Lines by Sweet Talk as one of my five favorite albums of 2013. I’ve seen them live many times and it is indisputable that they are fucking great....