“I was on the first Challenge. I started this franchise, and you can be damn sure I’m going to end it!” said Challenge veteran Mark Long. Long is one of the true OG challengers, having appeared on six seasons of MTV’s The Challenge in addition to the very first season of Road Rules. He took some…
When an artist passes away, posthumous albums are an inevitability, even if they feel super dirty and wrong. When the artist is as huge as Michael Jackson or say, Prince, there’s no stopping what will eventually be unearthed via the estates or from the depths of a record label’s catalogue. Is it a greedy cash-in?…
When the sisters HAIM burst on the scene with 2013’s dazzling debut, Days Are Gone, they released one of the most pristine and calculated debut albums of the last 20 years. It was a collection of 10 neatly constructed pop-rock tracks that mixed 70’s pop tones and 90’s R&B into their folk formula, as if Stevie Nicks had…
It’s Amazon Prime Day and while many respectable adult humans are probably buying electronics or subscription services that can facilitate their home lives, I’m sitting here eyeing this very relevant (to me), very real bacon board game: Bacon-Opoly! Disclaimer 1: Monopoly will forever be one of my favorite board games. There’s no greater feeling than…
Netflix’s GLOW is the best new show of 2017. Created by Liz Flahive (Nurse Jackie) and Carly Mensch, and produced by Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), the show revolves around a fictional version of the “The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,” a women’s professional wrestling circuit made popular in the 80’s. Alison Brie plays Ruth, a starving…
The last movie released in the Child’s Play franchise was so good, I called my mom to tell her about it (she didn’t care). I shouted about it from the highest mountaintop because not only had I just watched a new Chucky installment in 2013(!), but the psychopathic doll was back to being scary. Curse of Chucky was a back-to-its-gory-basics movie…
Punk purists have vilifying opinions when it comes to (GASP!) pop punk. Despite widely acclaimed bands like The Ramones and The Kinks paving the way toward this dancier, poppier sound, pop punk is often treated like a cancer in many music circles, especially older ones, whose fans conveniently forget how much they loved Dookie or …And Out Come…
File this under “Stuff That Doesn’t Suck.” Watch Canadian rockers PUP throw a punk spin on Phantogram’s “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” for triple j’s Like A Version series. The clip is from October and it kicks tons of ass. Boatloads, even. (And remember kids: always go off-genre for covers!) PUP cover Phantogram ‘You…
Netflix just dropped the trailer for Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later and I want it inside me. I’m so excited, this is me rn: The gang promised to meet back at camp in 10 years to see what kind of people they’ve become, and even though we see Ben say this, it seems highly likely…
Ahh, summer…sun, fun, booze, alcohol…wait, those two are the same thing. I don’t know about you, but summer to me is signified by chugging brews and crankin’ tunes. (And I guess mixing it up with some rando’s at a BBQ you didn’t even want to go to, but that’s what all the sauce is for!)…