Artist Close-Up: Loma Create A Lyrical Dance With Darkness

If darkness could have a lyrical dance, it would be to Loma’s self-titled debut. You simply imagine a black orb swindling and swinging throughout every…

Album Review: Fischerspooner Make You Call Your Nightlife “Sir”

Listening to Fischerspooner’s new album, Sir, is like walking into an NYC pop-art gallery. Each track feels like an industrialized painting with a Humans of…

Film Review: Three Reasons Marvel’s Black Panther Is Empowering Cinema

1) Beauty There is not one scene in Black Panther where I am not like, “YAAAASSSS!!! BOOK ME A FLIGHT TO WAKANDA!!!!!!!!!!!”. Even when the…

Theatre Review: The Bench Makes You Acknowledge The Homeless

Synopsis: Based on true stories, The Bench, set in urban decay and rubble, explores the emotional heartbreak of five homeless characters and the catastrophic hysteria surrounding AIDs…

TV Review: Here And Now Makes You Stay And Watch Humanity

Synopsis: On the surface, the Bayer-Boatwrights of Portland, Ore. are the model of a progressive, multiracial family. Greg is a respected philosophy professor and author;…

Album Review: Palm’s Rock Island Sonically Imagines Boredom

Prepare for a VERY STRANGE REVIEW! Why? Because Palm’s Rock Island is an eclectic album, but I like it. It sonically embodies boredom, but turns…

Theatre Review: Porto Looks At How Women Look At Themselves

Porto, written by Kate Benson and magnificently directed by Lee Sunday Evans, is brilliant. The writer has created a 90 minute play that is funny,…

Concert Review: Haunted Summer Animate Knitting Factory

Imagine if Donnie Darko made bedroom pop, and you would get Haunted Summer. Defined as the type of dreamy pop music that feels as texturized…

Concert Review: Cloud Castle Lake Make Life Feel Mythical

Sometimes, the things we think are against us are actually for us. Not every pain stems from our hurt as much as our discomfort at…

Album Review: MGMT Brings Light To Our “Little Dark Age”

“YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, is what I said as I heard MGMT’s newest album, Little Dark Age. Like most “dark pop” rising from the ashes of a 2016…

Concert Review: Why? Makes You Say How? Did We Get Here

When I went to Why?’s concert at Music Hall of Williamsburg, I did not know, exactly, what to expect. Sure, I may say that a…

Concert Review: Brent Faiyaz Flirts With Love At Rough Trade NYC

Brent Faiyaz’s show at Rough Trade had to have been one of my all-time faves. The man can make a Sunday feel like a Friday,…

Film Review: Permission Asks If Sex Can Ever Be Solely An Experiment

  Synopsis: Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens), were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years…

Album Review: The Wombats Sing To How Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

Okay, I am a little biased when it comes to The Wombats’ newest album, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (BPWRYL) . I already heard…

Album Review: Franz Ferdinand Show Change Is Always Ascending

When Franz Ferdinand’s guitarist/keyboard player Nick McCarthy decided to leave the band in order to spend more time with his family, the remaining three members weren’t…