These past two weekends, Austin's Zilker Park hosted the Austin City Limits Music Festival with 130+ bands in attendance. Many big names in the music business made appearances, but every band was given a chance on one of the 7 stages around the 46 acre plot of land. Some bands really brought it and drew a crowd. Others, however,...
Let's step approximately fifteen minutes into the past, while I was listening to Corsicana Lemonade, by White Denim. My first thought as I hear the blunt, first A flat of the album was, "I've never heard a sound like that before." And, it's true. They have a very similar Stomp-Box blues tone to the Black Keys, but they also...
Nintendo always attempts to and successfully brings nostalgia to gamers who grew up playing the Smash Bros franchise. Its routes can be traced back to the side scrolling fighter that first appeared on the Nintendo 64. This year, Nintendo is for the first time releasing a Smash Bros game on both their handheld and home consoles products. The latter...
Interpol
El Pintor Album Review
Matador Records
Released September 9, 2014
Genre: Indie Rock, Post Punk Revival, Gloom Rock
Interpol is undoubtedly in love with with New York City. You can hear it in their music, their lyrics, and in the albums they create. Even when they aren't explicitly expressing the Big Apple, they evoke what it feels like to be in New York:...
Krewella
Get Wet Album Review
Columbia Records
Released September 20, 2013
Genre: Electro House, Progressive House, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Drumstep
Get Wet is a masterpiece. I expected a lot of Krewella through the Party Hard EP and the sneak peeks they released in the weeks leading up to the album release, and then they streamed the album on SoundCloud, and that was the moment...
U2
Songs Of Innocence Album Review
Island Records
Released September 9, 2014
Genre: Rock
The "surprise album" has been a working concept over the past year, from Jay Z's "Samsung-only" marketing scheme for Magna Carta Holy Grail to Beyonce's "out of nowhere" approach. But how about the "Surprise! you already have it!" gambit that U2 just did at the Apple Cupertino event on September 9,...
Every day in the halls of Jesuit, a student runs down the hall toward his classroom, English assignment in hand, rushing to beat the bell. Another student plows through his math homework before algebra class, finishing with one minute to spare. Understandably, these students simply forgot that they had homework assigned the previous day; they failed to write a...
There are spoilers ahead regarding the beginning of the game’s plot. You have been warned.
There are few who haven’t heard of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, two pieces of literature that were crafted by the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle of Earth: Shadow of Mordor by Monolith Productions finds its place in the world that Tolkien...
