Nashville singer-songwriter Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, attracted buzz and fans when she uploaded her raw, personal indie jams to Bampcamp three years ago. This month, her debut LP Clean finally dropped, showcasing Allison’s personal penned takes against a backdrop of slacker rock and acoustic lullabies. Though she took to the DIY approach for her Bandcamp page,…
Martin Shkreli faces up to 10 years in federal prison as part of his conviction for securities fraud. (Or perhaps it’s cosmic justice for infamously raising the price of Daraprim in 2015. You see, that’s the thing about karma…) As part of his conviction, Shkreli was ordered to forfeit $7.36 million in assets, including the Wu-Tang Clan…
If you love hot sauce and TV equally, well, then you and I should be pals. Thanks to the online shop Always Fits, you can get your hands on four different Golden Girls themed hot sauces, including the spicy Blanche-inspired Hot Slut. The four different sauces are: Bea Spicy – A jalapeno-based sauce for Bea…
Marvel has always toyed with politics and social unrest, though its macro issues never superseded its movie stars. Take your pick of any white superhero, toss in a swoonworthy movie star guy and voila! Audiences will queue up to see punches thrown, buildings annihilated and nefarious schemes thwarted. Yes, Black Panther has these surface-level devices as…
It feels apropos to let Janelle Monáe lead my way in this celebration or admission, whatever the hell it may be. First, The Littlest Winslow reached a pretty big milestone last month – it’s 10th Birthday – which is pretty amazing. This project was started with a friend when I was barely out of college, couldn’t write for shit,…
The maybe-cyborg, definite genius Janelle Monáe shared two new tracks off her upcoming Dirty Computer out April 27. “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane” were both dropped this afternoon along with accompanying videos (or “emotion pictures,” as Monáe calls them), each giving a glimpse of what’s to come from the singer’s third LP. “Make Me Feel” is the standout…
Sometimes the greatest art comes from an artist in transition. When Asbury Park-native Nicole Atkins was writing her latest record, the vintage soul collection Goodnight Rhonda Lee, she packed up and moved to Nashville with her tour manager husband while putting down the bottle and learning to live without booze. It was this time of…
Gentle readers: Oscar nominations were announced today and if you’re anything like me, you are drowning in Oscar coverage. So here is some more coverage. (You’re welcome.) I’m adapting this blog from an email where I regaled my friends with my very unsolicited, very lengthy opinions about said nominations. And they were like, “OK.” I…
It’s been 12 years since Ontario, Canada’s Tokyo Police Club blew up the blogosphere with their punchy, pithy debut EP, A Lesson in Crime. Four EPs and four albums later, the band is all grown up, forging ahead by shaking up their modus operandi. The two-part Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness (2016) showcased the band’s…
Guillermo del Toro is the king of oddities. Throughout his storied career, he’s taken on everything from comic book adaptations and horror films to giant alien robots, yet the writer-director never fails to impassion his dark fantasy tales with beauty, heart and magic—everything you’d ever want from a trip to the movies. His most recent, The…