Simon Amstell | Numb | Largo (Los Angeles, CA) | November 13, 2012 | To sum up: painfully hilarious. Both in the physical – keeled over in one’s chair, or perhaps curled on the floor having fallen out of one’s chair, with arms curled around one’s stomach from laughing – sense and the metaphysical sense (which was explored as the show went on). […]
Green Day | Uno! | Rating: 8/11 | Reviewed by: Kilby Shepard | Green Day has gone from Berkeley, CA gutter punks to stadium-filling activists to Broadway and now they’re back with Uno!, the first in a trilogy of new studio releases. Recorded from February to June 2012, Billie Joe stated in a prior interview that the band ditched the idea of a double album, instead, opting […]
8mm | Between The Devil & Two Black Hearts | Rating: 9/11 | The best thing about music that makes the head hurt when you try to pigeonhole or assign a definitive genre/label to it is the beauty of being artistic: it’s expression purely on one’s own terms and screw all else. You see, Sean and Juliette Beavan have been around the music block once […]
The XX | Coexist | Rating: 8.25/11 | Reviewed by: Joshua Hammond | There are times when the weight of one’s brilliance ends up resulting in more paper cuts than certificates hanging on the fridge. Once the spotlight is plugged in and the shadows of genius are exaggerated the expansion of what lies within it is significantly large. At time, situations that would normally seem fine […]
Shadow of Night (Book Two of the All Souls trilogy) | by: Deborah Harkness | Rating: 8/11 | Shadow of Night, the second in the All Souls trilogy and follow-up release to the highly acclaimed A Discovery of Witches, picks up exactly where the first novel leaves off with Diana Bishop and Matthew de Clermont time walking back into Elizabethan […]
Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury | by: Lesley-Ann Jones | Rating: 9.2/11 | Upon completion of Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury there were several mixed feelings about structure and content. Whose version of the story was accurate between all the he said/she said? Why was there so much focus on Queen statistics in a Freddie biography? […]
Kasabian: Live At The O2 | Rating: 10/11 | While the award for “Most Self Explanatory/Redundant DVD Title” could easily go to this one, we’ll forgive the simplicity because Kasabian Seriously Kicks Your Ass is probably a little less than professional for their first stand-alone DVD release. “Not bad for a little band from Leicester,” quips Kasabian’s lead vocalist Tom […]
