Beach Day | Native Echoes | Rating: 9/11 | Beach Day’s Native Echoes is probably the best sophomore record since Nashville’s Those Darlins followed-up their beautifully sloppy and crass country punk debut with 2011’s Screws Get Loose, an exercise in garage psychedelia channeled through the hipster artistry of New York’s Bowery in the 1970s. Beach Day have followed-up the hyper-fun-loving, hyper-sunny girl-group garage […]
Angus & Julia Stone | Angus & Julia Stone | Rating: 9/11 | If only all siblings sounded as good as Angus & Julia Stone sound together on their third full length record. After three years of separation and solo operations taking place, the duo has been wrangled up by infamous ringmaster and producer Rick Rubin. The self-titled record is […]
On August 12th, Disney is releasing the animated classics Hercules, Tarzan, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Three Musketeers on Blu-Ray for the first time. Now before you start grumbling that you just finished re-purchasing all your Disney Classics on DVD, you should know that the clarity and beauty that Blu-Ray has instilled on […]
Rise Against | The Black Market | Rating: 6/11 | The ethically sound punk-rock band, Rise Against, hits the front lines of activism through music with their latest record The Black Market. Aggressive beats, melodic voices with rustic tones and heart pumping energy is the best way to describe this, their seventh full length album. “I Don’t Want To Be […]
Disneynature Bears | Rating: 8.9 / 11 | This is the story of Sky, a mother brown bear, and her two cubs Scout & Amber as the cubs survive their first year of life as a bear. Set in Alaska’s beautiful Katmai National Park, Bears filmographers spent over two years following and filming Sky and her cubs adventures through incredible […]
Get On Up | Rating: 11/11 | “It doesn’t matter how you travel it, it’s the same road. It doesn’t get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.” – James Brown James Brown was way ahead of his time, he invented the terms of his game much like B.B. […]
Nightmare and the Cat | Simple | Rating: 10.2 / 11 | Nightmare and the Cat know how to write a song of all kinds: one that will make you think, one that will instantly get stuck in your head, one that will bring you to tears at its emotional relevance and one, most importantly, that will have you grooving […]
