The Swedish Indietronica duo Niki and the Dove have a new album coming out called Everybody’s Heart is Broken Now. The sophomore record drops April 8 and includes this synth-heavy, groove-filled second single “So Much It Hurts.” The video is all sorts of neon-chic, with singer Malin Dahlström strolling through an electrified city of purples,…
YouTube rabbit holes. We all know them. We all love them. (Mostly because we’re all a bunch of asshole procrastinators. Yeah, don’t deny it, buddy. It happens to the best of us.) One rainy afternoon, I fell and fell hard. I wasn’t searching for anything remotely close to Mandy Patinkin, that manly bearded wonder from Homeland and Dead…
When I walked into my very first Tower Records, I could hear the echoes of my footsteps. The bright fluorescent lights were so harsh, I had to squint to case the joint; only empty shelves and bare walls stared back at me. It was like the mall the day after Christmas, but worse. Needless to…
As if we needed another reason to love Kristen Bell. Girl loves sloths, (like, a lot) and is amazing and is VERONICA MARS. She goes on Ellen and is adorable, and Kickstarts shit that makes millions of cash monies in a matter of hours. Nbd, guys. So when Bell and husband Dax Shepard went to…
Earlier this week, Miguel performed an intimate show at Los Angeles’ Bardot, where he paid tribute to David Bowie with a silky smooth rendition of “Space Oddity.” Backed by a lone acoustic guitar, Miguel eventually transitioned to his Wildheart single “Waves.” Miguel. The music he’s created over the years, I don’t really listen to it. But the fact…
I had so many problems with Chairlift’s set last week at The Space in Hamden, Conn. that I don’t even know where to begin. The time in between the opener and the Brooklyn-based synthpop headliners was longer than the band’s actual set (OK, let’s start there). They kept us waiting for a little over an…
There’s nothing more eye-roll-inducing than critics deeming a movie “a rollercoaster ride”; a phrase clearly intended to make a commercial or film poster or something. But in the case of Room, I feel like I have to go against one of my biggest critical pet peeves and say that the movie starring Brie Larson as…
In 2007, Paramount began teasing an upcoming horror movie from J.J. Abrams that we all now know as Cloverfield, a low budget throwback to Godzilla and the monster movies of yesteryear. What was so phenomenal about the movie was the buzz they built through a low-key grassroots marketing campaign that was completely shrouded in mystery.…
Whenever a bands sounds even remotely psychedelic, my ears perk up and I’m listening. Discovering new bands rocking these classic sounds? Even better. So is the case with Plum – a reasonably new outfit formed in late 2014 that struts a vintage guitar sound in our wildly modern, tech-driven music scene. While the band…
Mötley Crüe exploded onto the 80’s LA scene in a tornado of drugs, booze, glam and girls, girls, girls. In between platinum-selling records and sold-out club and arena tours, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx struggled through addiction, jail sentences, inner-band turmoil, rehab, you name it, making the band’s 30+ years one…