Monthly Archive: May 2016

Movie Breakdown: X-Men: Apocalypse

Pre-Screening Stance: Initially I was pretty excited about X-Men: Apocalypse.  Bryan Singer back once again to direct the franchise he helped jump start, the always stellar Oscar Issac as the super baddie Apocalypse, the eternally...

Speedy Ortiz

Indie rock darlings Speedy Ortiz just announced a companion piece to last year’s excellent Foil Deer.  The four track EP, which carries the appropriate title of Foiled Again, features two new tunes (one of them...

20 Austin Essentials

Now that I host both 101X Homegrown and KGSR’s Lone Star State of Mind, I don’t really post quite as many local mp3s.  This is mostly because I spend my Sunday evenings blabbering about all...

Mind Spiders (Dan)

As I was deciding which band to write about I reviewed the albums I’ve had on heavy rotation. Prosthesis by Mind Spiders was an obvious choice, but I worried I’d written about them too much...

Movie Breakdown: The Man Who Knew Infinity

Pre-Screening Stance: I hate math.  However, there are plenty of math-centric movies that I love (A Beautiful Mind, The Imitation Game, Good Will Hunting – just to name a few), so it’s possible that I...

Movie Breakdown: Captain America: Civil War

Pre-Screening Stance: In my opinion, 2015 wasn’t a great year for Marvel.  Sure, they made a ton of cash, but The Avengers: Age of Ultron wasn’t exactly good, and Ant-Man was okay-but-largely-forgettable.  Does this mean...

Show Of The Week

Favs of mine A Giant Dog will be putting out their very anticipated third full length, Pile, this Friday via Merge, and then on Saturday they’ll be celebrating the release of it at Barracuda alongside...

Chaos Emeralds

Aside from being an important part of every Sonic The Hedgehog game, Chaos Emeralds are a new Nashville-based act that’s led by Daniel Ellsworth and Kyle Andrews.  Below you’ll find their latest single, which is a...