Concert Review: The Shadowboxers Remind That Pop Is Fun At Public Arts

The Shadowboxers are Justin Timberlake’s first artists signed to his label Villa 40, and I totally understood why at their Public Arts show. We gravitate…

Concert Review: Son Lux Give Light To A Dark Future At Brooklyn Steel

At Brooklyn Steel, Son Lux showed how to make darkness sexy rather than its usual “scariness”. Drifting into the night with no set plan does…

Concert Review: Ethan Gruska Turns Drunk Dials Into Art At Town Hall

Ethan Gruska is a nerd, in the most wonderful of ways. Often, the term “nerd” is used to insult someone, but for me, being one,…

Album Review: Shadowboxers Turn To The Power of Apollo

  Nashville R&B meets Atlanta Pop? YES PLEASE! Shadowboxers are releasing their debut EP, Apollo, and proving that years of hard work and a personal…

Album Review: Sunflower Bean Show Life At “Twentytwo In Blue”

Sunflower Bean’s Twenytwo In Blue is exactly what being twenty-two feels like. For most, it is the true beginning of your life. You have probably…

Film Review: Beauty And The Dogs Shows #MeToo Is A Needed Movement

SYNOPSIS: When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which…

Diandra Interviews Danielle Cormier: Singing To Love With Fire & Ice

Danielle Cormier is both relatable and completely special. On one hand, she is a twenty-two year old woman chasing her music dreams, and hoping that…

Concert Review: John The Martyr Brings NOLA Heaven To The Django

Life turns, and often we think it only turns bad. Yet, it can turn good, as well. Before John The Martyr, Bill Hudson was a…

Concert Review: Totally Mild Sing To Self- Esteem At Rough Trade

Totally Mild feel like Ladybird at a Texas Prom. Honestly, if Greta Gerwig needed an album to soundtrack the pains and promises of being a…

Concert Review: Jade Imagine Pulp Rough Trade With Garage Glam

I love Jade Imagine’s sound and vibe. More importantly, I love how they make me feel like I have a sound and vibe, which is…

Book Review: Karen Salmansohn’s Friends Forever Wherever Whenever

Karen Salmansohn’s Friends Forever Wherever Whenever is sappy, cheesy, and absolutely wonderful because of it. This book is splashy celebration of what it is to…

Concert Review: Ciaran Lavery Releases Your Darkness At Rockwood

Its hard to describe Ciaran Lavery’s music. Someone tried to say it gave them “heart pressure”; as if someone was pressing on their heart to…

Album Review: Preocuppations Have “New Material” To Deal With Old Ways

Preoccupations’ New Material plays off like a nightmarish, Greek Tragedy: both beautiful and terrifying. You can just imagine Antigone in her cell, ready to die,…

Artist Close-Up: Ed Romanoff Is The Orphan King

Ed Romanoff is The Orphan King. After discovering he was adopted, Romanoff used music as a literal point of self. Who are you when you…

Theatre Review: Shakespeare’s Will Is One To Witness

Synopsis: Loosely based on the few historical facts known about the Bard, Anne, and their family life, SHAKESPEARE’S WILL is a lively, humorous and emotional depiction of…