Show Of The Week
One of my favorite artists, Thao And The Get Down Stay Down, is in town this week! I only got to see the act for a brief bit at SXSW, and I need my fix. ...
Monthly Archive: April 2016
DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow is rad. Run The Jewels are rad. So, naturally, they made a song together that is double rad. That’s pretty much all there is to say. Well, that, and I hope that Shadow’s...
Quickdraw: The Mystery Lights, Mercury Girls, King Khan, Still Parade, Har Mar Superstar
Music! Enjoy. :The Mystery Lights – Follow Me Home: The mighty folks over at Daptone have created a rock imprint, WICK, and The Mystery Lights’ debut will be its first release. I’m really digging this...
Beats & Eats: Volume 3 (James)
Beats & Eats is a mixtape and a meal. A collection of tunes (sometimes there’s a theme, sometimes it’s just whatever I’m into this month) and a recipe to cook (bake, mix, whatever) while you...
Movie Breakdown: The Jungle Book (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: Jon Favreau has been sort of fussing around in his own private playground post-Marvel, and his output has been dodgy at best. His upcoming, almost entirely motion captured adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The...
Movie Breakdown: City Of Gold
Pre-Screening Stance: Jonathan Gold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic, and City of Gold explores him and his hometown of Los Angeles. The documentary looks as though it might be a real charmer, so I’m...
Movie Breakdown: The Jungle Book
Pre-Screening Stance: Disney’s decision to systematically do live action re-tellings of their classics isn’t something that I think is particularly exciting. With that being said, I do like Jon Favreau as a director, and the...
Nothing
Good news! We’re now only a month away from the release of Nothing’s new album, Tired of Tomorrow. Every track put out so far (they’re all down below) has been a spectacular slice of 90s-enthused...
Show Of The Week
There are a lot of good shows happening this week (see below for extra recs), but I’m most excited for the Slack Capital release party that’s happening at Barracuda on Friday. The 20-track effort just...
Quickdraw: Yung, The Julie Ruin, Diarrhea Planet, Weaves, Car Seat Headrest
Music! Enjoy. :Yung – Uncombed Hair: In the press release that came along with this sharp indie rocker there’s a part where Yung main brain Mikkel Holm Silkjaer mentions that “this one is dedicated to bad...
