The Producers Step Onstage
At the time, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was that made just about every song performed by Miike Snow at the Galaxy Room [...]
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The Producers Step Onstage
At the time, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was that made just about every song performed by Miike Snow at the Galaxy Room [...]
More Is Not More
I should have realized what I was in for when Bristol, England based get-up Munch Munch started begging, in round, for the sound tech at Beauty Bar [...]
Tags: Beauty Bar, Bristol, England, Jack O’Connor, Keyboards, Munch Much, Richard Manber, Sarah Louise Renwick, SXSW, Thomas CarrelThe film production of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir — Eat, Pray, Love — was in the news for all the wrong reasons. When Julia Roberts was at an Ashram outside [...]
Tags: Bali, Bigot, books, Carbs, Cinema, Cultural Insensitivity, Delhi, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Film, Food, India, Italy, Julia Roberts, racism, Trailer, TrailersSo here’s my Karthik Calling Karthik review! I really loved it (and hindsight even more than when I first left the theater.) Farhan Akhtar is the man, he can direct, [...]
Tags: Adhuna Bhabani Akhtar, bollywood, Cinema, Don 2, Farah Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Honey Irani, Hrithik Roshan, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Javed Akhtar, Karthik Calling Karthik, Manmohan Singh, Movie, Movies, Mumbai, Reviews, Urdu, Video, Zoya AkhtarSecond Skin
I discovered Alfa Garcia through her various participation in Kollaboration events and videos. I was intrigued by her unique, smoky voice so when her debut album dropped last summer I made [...]
Tags: Acoustic, album review, Alfa, Alfa Garcia, Cattchy, Don't Write Your Goodbyes, French, Indie, Kollaboration, New Music, piano, Pop, Pop Rock, Rock, Second SkinUtada Hikaru’s last stop on her In the Flesh tour of North America was at Irving Plaza, New York City, on February 8. I was one of the lucky few [...]
Tags: Concert Review, Crossing-over, DJ Mike Rizzo, In the Flesh tour, irving plaza, J-Pop, Japan, Kingdom Hearts, live performance, Marketing, New York City, This is the One, Utada Hikaru, “Hikari”, “Simple and Clean”Our obsession with Epik High means that if something’s Korean and it’s hip-hop, we’ll give it a listen. (Though we’ll never replace you, Tablo!) So it was nice to hear [...]
Tags: album review, Auto Tune, Autotune, Casino, CD Review, Download, English, Epik High, Hear New Music, Hip-Hop, K-Pop, Korea, Korean, Language, Lyrics, new album, New Music, One Way, R&B, Rap, review, Reviews, Rhyme, Tablo, Track review, U-DragIf one word can capture the whole of a generic Bollywood film, that word would be “epic.” A love story, a tragedy, a one- man-against-all-odds quest, a musical, a shoot-’em-up [...]
Tags: 9/11, Asperger's Syndrome, bollywood, Controversy, Film, Hinduism, hurricanes, India, Islam, Kajol Devgan, Karan Johar, Movie, Muslims, My Name is Khan, Politics, religion, review, San Francisco, Shah Rukh KhanMarketed as a movie about a boy and his love for Michael Jackson, that pitch alone did not have me running to the movie theatre to watch the movie BOY. But two minutes into the film, I knew it was the kind of quirky goodness with all the elements of heart and comedy that I would enjoy.
Tags: 1980s, Boyo, Film, Film Reviews, Indie, Maori, Michael Jackson, MJ, Movie, Napoleon Dynamite, New Zealand, One Night, Oscar, Oscars, Quirky!, Son of Rambow, Sundance, Taika Waititi, The 80's, Trailer, Two CarsMarie Digby really gained a lot of attention through her acoustic cover of “Umbrella” on Youtube back in 2007. Since that time she released an album in 2008, gotten numerous [...]
Tags: album review, Breathing Underwater, Half Japanese, Japan, Jordin Sparks, Marie Digby, Melodic, Pop, review, Umbrella, UnfoldThe Nehemiah Band is a relatively new band based out of sunny Southern California and has been steadily building a pretty strong buzz over the past couple years. Having only [...]
Tags: album review, Break of Dawn, Buzz, Christian, Reviews, Southern California, The Nehemiah Band, TV Show MedleyAs we told you earlier, the Swedish duo The Knife has been hard at work crafting an opera. (Well, whenever Karen Dreijer Andersson wasn’t being her kooky Fever Ray self…) [...]
Tags: Female Vocals, Fever Ray, On the Origin Of The Species, opera, Pre-Order, review, Sweden, The Knife, Tomorrow In A YearChina has the biggest of everything. The world’s biggest mall. The biggest dam. The biggest car dealership. Add to that list the world’s largest restaurant.
These hyperboles are all over the [...]
When you title your movie ODDSAC, you’re not exactly going for a mainstream audience. Still, the weirdness of the “trailer” for the upcoming “visual album” from Animal Collective threw bloggers [...]
Tags: Animal Collective, Artsy, Bored, Brooklyn, Experimental, Film, Film Review, Hipsters, Hitfix, Indie, Katie Hastie, Labyrinth, New Movies, ODDSAC, review, Ryan Trecartin, Side Project, Sundance, Video, Video ArtI LIKE DAS RACIST! That is why I am sad. Because I want them to succeed and have a wonderful career that flowers and blooms, but due to the obscure [...]
Tags: "Rainbow In The Dark", Ali Wong, American Apparel, Das Racist, Hip-Hop, Kanye, MGMT, Music Video Critique(Xbox 360)
Awesome. Totally awesome. Chainsaws, frying pans, guitars, cricket bats, new assault rifles, a combat shotgun, a grenade launcher, new levels, new challenges.
The announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 caused [...]
For every girl that’s ever dreamt of being serenaded by a loving, smooth-voiced boyfriend (and let’s be honest, behind our cool, hipster facades, that’s all of us), dream no more. [...]
Tags: Ce Matin, Patchwork, Peace, Ranjit, serenade, Since the Start, That’s My NameYoga lovers watch out. The music you know, love, and have ‘ohm’ed to will be shaken (not stirred) and revitalized.
Meet EarthRise SoundSystem: a.k.a. Derek Beres, known for his column in [...]
If you’re a track-skipping, song skimming, ADD kind of music listener, Silver Starling’s self-titled debut isn’t for you. It’s the kind of album that, like quality red wine, needs a [...]
Tags: Blind, Blue Light, Caught in Your Glow, Closer, Ghosts, Muse, Silver Starling, Something Over Nothing, This is Not a DreamIf aliens had invaded the earth during the electronica loving era of 80s one-hit-wonders and formed a multilingual a cappella group, than the result would have been Barcelona natives The [...]
Tags: Alex Llovet, Amparanoia, Amparo, Barcelona, Bobby McFerrin, Electronic, Electronica, Mr. Furia, Professor Manso, Salvador Rey, Spain, The Pinker Tones, Wild Animals