60 Second Review: “Rhythm and Repose” by Glen Hansard
Oscar winning singer/song-writer Glen Hansard delivers an over-mellow solo debut that doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be when it grows up.
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“The Wanted EP” by The Wanted Album Review
Technically, this EP entitled The Wanted is the group’s third release. Their two previous albums, The Wanted and Battleground were received well across Europe, but failed to get the boys noticed in America. Now, all that has changed with the release of mega-singles like “Glad You Came” and “Chasing The Sun.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers’s “Look Around” Video Review
You can play the video and spin the camera’s viewpoint around at will. That. Is. So. Cool. In each room there’s also a clickable object that brings you to a slide show of behind-the-scenes photos.
Bloom by Beach House Album Review – Jessi’s Take
Maryland’s dream-pop duo, Beach House, have been critically acclaimed darlings since their self-titled debut dropped in 2006. The two albums that followed, Devotion (2008) and Teen Dream (2010) were accepted equally as well by fans and critics alike. Their latest release, Bloom is the band’s most beautiful work to date, masterful both vocally and musically. [...]
“The Only Place” by Best Coast Album Review
In 2010, the California duo, Best Coast busted onto the scene with Crazy for You; singing blissful pop tunes about relationships and weed. Bethany Consentino and her partner-in-crime Bobb Bruno struck a lo-fi chord with music fans and critics alike, becoming darlings within the festival circuit and on summer music playlists. Their sophomore effort, The Only Place, is [...]
Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend” Video Review
But this video is a transparent attempt to make Biebs seem older, sexier, and more suave. He’s eighteen now, but he doesn’t look it. So it doesn’t quite work.
TITANIC – An Epic Musical Voyage Soundtrack Review
What soulless individual can deny the technical mastery that went into James Cameron’s TITANIC? The 1997 multi Oscar winner is a perfect a display of gorgeous costuming, intricate art design and production so beautiful it performs the impossible feat of distracting you from Kate Winslet’s assets. No less stunning is the music, which is now [...]
BERNIE Original Score by Graham Reynolds, Songs by Jack Black and a slew of Texas Artists Soundtrack Review
Bernie Soundtrack Review – Graham Reynolds, Jack Black and Austin, Texas musicians make strange bedfellows but great partners or maybe that should be pardners.
The Complete Harry Potter Film Collection by The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Soundtrack Review
I went through an emotional roller coaster listening to this album. Listening to the songs took me through the different scenes from the films and made me re-live those emotions.
Bloom by Beach House Album Review
Indie/Dream Pop duo Beach House (Victoria Legrand, Alex Scally) are one of those bands that I like quite a lot, but for some reason there music has never let me in past a certain point. There’s always been something that’s prevented me from moving out of the “friend zone” and forming stronger feelings for the [...]
Pearl Jam’s “Do the Evolution” Retrograde Video Review
Every so often, I’ll crack open the dusty time capsule (it’s YouTube) to review a retro music video. This week’s decade is the 90s, because that’s when stations like MTV and Much Music actually played music videos and I actually watched them on a real, actual TV. One of the alternative rock giants of the [...]
Soundtrack Review: Danny Elfman’s Original Score for Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS
As contrasting as the pale vampire Barnabas Collins looks against an almost technicolor background of characters and sets, Danny Elfman‘s latest score for Dark Shadows plays to the rest of this film’s soundtrack. In his latest collaboration with Tim Burton, Elfman created another masterful background to what promises to be a very unique take on [...]