The thump was constant and the bass rattled the ground of the palatial Avalon in Hollywood. It was a Control Friday show (8/21) and the warm summer night was perfectly complimented by an exciting Dim Mak double feature with Canadian drop kings Botnek and burgeoning House wunderkind Jacob Plant. After a fun, throbbing warm up
Yesterday saw the US release of Hermitude’s new record, Dark Night Sweet Light, and we can not stop listening to it. With the first track, Hermitude brings us a delightfully catchy trap-infused ethereal dance track. Utilizing faded synths and sporadic sampling at just the right times, “Hijinx,” brings about dreamy-yet-compelling presence to the opening of the
A band like Tijuana Panthers can only come from a state like California. Not just California, but from a beach city in Southern California. The graceful garage pop band is slowly taking over the very popular garage scene that is abundant right now, and they are doing it with every trick and trinket they have
Sometimes an artist will abandon their inhibitions and make a damn pop record, which typically signifies a paradigm shift for an artist that is trying to reach out to a broader audience. Here with The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness, we find the Canadian crooner sorting through all of his coked out nights of sexual
As they’re prone to every ten years or so, Yo La Tengo have released yet another record made up of mostly covers. Something Like That There features fourteen songs, nine of which are covers, three of which are remakes of old songs with the remaining two being fresh offerings from the group. The overall sound
It’s chilly March and a pair of adventurers has set off to conquer the Appalachian Trail and its 2,200 miles or 3,500 km of wilderness. New gear and optimism drowns out a wife’s warnings and fears. The men crave adventure and feel compelled to perform this rite. Like those who climb Everest or Meru it’s
A good try at a difficult story but a lack of character development leaves us in a vacuum. Writer/director Alex Ross Perry’s urban pot-boiler falls well short of expectations. A high bar was set by avid Elisabeth Moss fans who came to adore her as she stole the show in the blockbuster “Mad Men” TV
For the third installment of our spotlight on Australia’s exploding electronic music scene we got to chat with the burgeoning beat wizards, Hermitude. The duo, consisting of Luke Dubber (Luke Dubs) and Angus Stuart (El Gusto), has been making a lot of ripples back in their home country, with their fifth album Dark Night Sweet
All I can say about the new crew working on mega-yacht Eros for BravoTV’s new season of “Below Deck” is OH. MY. GOD. They are so lucky the first charter guest is a drunk-ass whack job because the crew is already at war, whether or not the Captain is aware of it. It seems like,
Grey’s Anatomy shakes things up for its eleventh season by continuing to expand on its new characters, saying goodbye to long-time characters, and making sure there is time enough for some medicine between all the doctor romances. All 24 episodes of season 11 are collected in a DVD set that also comes loaded with bonus