To keep it simple: This is the part of the program that calls for recounting and sharing a few of the recent musical memorables. Parade of Lights @ Bootleg Theater 1/28/16 There’s this thing that the Los Angeles-based, alternative electro band known as Parade of Lights does. It’s a simple thing but it makes folks get up to get down with […]

Now that we’ve said goodbye to 2015, it’s time to move on and look forward to what 2016 has to offer. Here’s, hopefully, an interesting and informative list of 10 very fine bands/artists (listed in no particular order) that we should hear much more good stuff from this year. If you’re more of an aural learner, check out this Spotify […]

It seems with each passing the month, the Marvel Cinematic Universe story developments are getting harder and harder to resist. If you’re anything like us, you’re counting down the days until Thor revisits Earth from Asgard, Ward is finally defeated, Cap misses another pop culture reference, Matt Murdock continues to clean up Hell’s Kitchen and we watch Peggy Carter co-create […]

Now that we’ve officially moved into the new year, soon we can all look forward to the bevy of new releases soon to come our way. In the meantime, enjoy this quiet time; perhaps even reflect and revisit some of the releases of the past year that really turned you on. In the spirit of reflection, music discovery and in lieu […]

Being on this side of the pond (as well as a native New Yorker), every time I hear the name “Lawrence Taylor,” it immediately triggers the image and memory of a certain and very mighty New York Giants linebacker. The brain is quite the pit bull when it comes to nostalgia, but this particular Lawrence Taylor couldn’t be more dissimilar from […]

This past weekend completed the fourth annual D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA. What’s D23? It’s the Disney convention, think San Diego Comic Con but only for all things Disney. Why 23? Well, that’s the year Walt Disney left Kansas City to head to Hollywood where he’d form the new legendary Disney Studios. Got it? Good. While D23 is clearly the […]

The happening was an unsettling one. Imagine meeting someone. For a brief period of time you are present with them, you feel them and their beauty and – once you part company – genuinely sense the loss. Is that even remotely normal? It’s probable that I have very little grasp on our modern concept of “normal” and perhaps normal is […]