In a makeshift backstage area in the Off The Record record shop, which resembled a storage closet, Jordan, singer and shredder for West Virginia’s Rozwell Kid, sinks into a chair. “It was a very short trip ,” Jordan says,...
A slow pan across a shadowy ally, a subdued, gravelly voice-over setting the tone, a morose orchestra of strings crescendoing into a dramatic climax: all contemporary tropes of the modern action film. While films such as The Dark Knight,...
D’Angelo & The Vanguard
Black Messiah Album Review
RCA Records
Released December 15, 2014
Genre: R&B, Noise Funk, Funk Rock, Neo Soul, Psychedelic Soul, Country Funk (?)
D’Angelo is an enigma. As one of the most innovative and widely praised artists of his time,...
"Freedom of speech suggests that you can say whatever you think and that you stand next to your ideas that you defend. The others cannot agree with you but, if what you say doesn’t affect the life of others,...
Mark Ronson
Uptown Special Album Review
Columbia Records
Released January 13, 2015
Genre: Funk, R&B, Pop, 70s soul revival
When “Uptown Funk” first infiltrated the airwaves, I was surprised for two main reasons: first at how catchy, upbeat, and groovy the track was, and...
The Souls series is anything but easy; its trademark difficulty has led to countless broken controllers from hundreds of gamers. The next project from FromSoftware titled Bloodborne comes from the same mind who was the inspiration behind Demon Souls & Dark Souls. Bloodborne, a PS4 exclusive, takes place in the...
Title Fight Hyperview Album Review (Click here to stream) ANTI- Records Released February 3, 2015 Genre: Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Punk (not too much) Progression can be a great or terrible thing. For Title Fight on their third LP Hyperview, progression is...
Few books turn into good, let alone successful, game series. The Witcher series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski is one of the few that has accomplished just this. While the author was able to create a diverse and unique fantasy world that...
Joey Bada$$
B4.DA.$$ Album Review
Cinematic Music Group
Released January 20, 2015
Genre: Rap, Boom Bap
Let’s just get this out of the way: this is good. This is really good. This is rapper Joey Bada$$’s most consistent release to date, and represents the young spitter’s...
