Concert Review: Blue Healer Feels Like Band of Your Brothers At Rockwood Music Hall

Blue Healer are gaining a quick following for their ability to mix synthetic pop’s  glimmering riffs with indie rock’s grittier basslines.  The combination makes listeners…

Artist Close Up: El Mar’s “Just My Body” Is A Song For Women’s Health Rights

“Just My Body”  is a powerful ballad with a socially conscious message by Brooklyn songstress El Mar. For those that do not know El Mar…

Album Review: She & Him’s “Christmas Party” Is Pure Holiday Music

Zooey Deschanel has made her career through sheer lovability, and in She & Him, her duo with the vastly talented M. Ward,  she brings that…

Song Review: This Party Show “Money” Can Overpower Love In Relationships

Money is the BIGGEST reason that most relationships end. When it comes to love versus financial stability, for some reason, this noble virtue does not…

Book Review: The Wasp That Brainwashed The Caterpillar Is An Evolutionary Marvel

You may have heard of Matt Simon as the writer of the popular Wired series “Absurd Creature of the Week.”  Simon has garnered a cult-like…

Book Review: Catherine Dunne’s “The Years That Followed” Is A Look Into Women & Love

Taking place in 1989, but journeying back to the 1960’s, The Years That Followed is a time-traveling, international novel, where Dubliner Calista is swept away…

Song Review: Neiked Shows A Colorful,Cartoonish World In “Sexual”

Leave it to the Swedes to teach America the fun of being sexual. Scandinavia is known for its freer, at least, approach to sex and…

Diandra Interviews: Omar Al Hindi Follows The Music In His Head

Omar Al Hindi’s Bedhead Part 1, was just released, which you can read my review HERE. The singing romantic has an “everyday”. casual style that…

Diandra Reviews The Top Three Hip Hop Acts To Watch From The World

Meet three Hip Hop Acts from around the world to keep an eye out for and a clear ear to listen to. These three are…

Album Review: ALMA Is A “Raptress” In Debut EP “Dye My Hair”

ALMA is a rising “raptress” . She is an odd rap flow to her singing style that makes her vocals, at times, teeter between spit…

Film Review: Loving Will Teach You The Courage To Love

When you read Romeo and Juliet, it is painted as the most wonderful love story that ever lived. Most people breeze by the fact that…

Album Review: Twin Limb’s Haplo Is Like A Warhol Of Music

When you think of Andy Warhol, you think genius. eccentric, and emotionally prickly. He had the ability to bring out the color of life in…

Album Review: Kungs Serves “Layers” of Techno Ease

Hailing from the South of France, Kungs, real name Brunel Valentin, brings the French techno/elctronica scene to America through cool, mystifying melodies that make you…

Film Review: Doctor Strange Is The Harry Potter Of Marvel

By now, I am certain that pretty much EVERY HUMAN BEING is going to see Doctor Strange this week. So there is nothing I can…

Song Review: Marshmello Gives Millennial A Fun “Ritual”

Marshmello’s initiative is simple: he just wants to make good music. Yet, that does not entail his identity, which he hides under a giant, friendly…