Album Review: Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix

The first album was pretty much perfect (Keith agrees).  Pick of Destiny wasn’t bad, in my opinion.  I even think the movie has its charms.  But it’s been a while since the mighty D have put out new material.  Can they recapture any of the magic they used to have?

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Concert Review: Childish Gambino at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre (5/9/12)

One of the more anticipated events of my 2012 calendar year was going to a Gambino concert when he went on tour again.  I bought tickets to his March 30th show the day they went on sale.  Then he broke his foot (or ankle, or whatever), and the show got delayed to a random Wednesday [...]

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Theatre Review: Lincoln-Way Central High School’s production of Grease

Over the weekend I attended a high school production of Grease.  My girlfriend’s little sisters were involved in the musical, and being the supportive person that I am, I happily went along and observed the show.  Now, in my four years of high school, I proudly didn’t attend a single after-school event (except intramural bowling, [...]

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A Night At The Opera Ft Fucked Up’s “David Comes To Life”

Could this be? 4 Posts in a row without Scott? Has this happened before? Is this even a good thing? What’s that? I’m supposed to be writing a review about Fucked Up’s Hardcore/Punk Opera “David Comes to Life”? Yea I got that, its after the jump. (INSIDER TERMS)

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Album Review: The Black Keys – El Camino

I don’t really review albums very often, and I kinda wanna play some Zelda right now, so I’ll keep this pretty short.  The new Black Keys album is pretty fucking great. It’s definitely more in line with last year’s Brothers than it is their earlier work.  In a way that’s sad because I love the [...]

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Perfect Albums

Ah the perfect album. One of those albums where you know every lyric, you love every song, and after you hear one song from it you have to listen to the rest. They are rare, but when you find one, your life just seems just a little less crappy. You get a little bounce in [...]

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Highlights from Childish Gambino’s Camp

Childish Gambino’s new album Camp dropped yesterday, and I’ve immediately taken to it.  And yes, I just said his album dropped, because I’m dope and I say things like that now.  I’ve now given it two listen-throughs, and I thought I’d give some quick lyrical highlights from everyone’s favorite dong lover.

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what the hell is spotify? (and why you probably won’t use it)

So I’m sure by now you’ve either seen ads, seen friends’ Facebook posts, seen Twitter updates, or whatever, that mention Spotify. Because someone I follow retweeted something by Demi Moore about Spotify I managed to get a free invite and check it out. I’ll tell you now: it’s not worth the fuss. Here’s why.

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30 Songs to Feed my Eternal Sadness

When I’m in an awful and depressing mood, the last thing I want to do is try and fix it.  No, much like heroin, you try and push it to the absolute brink.  For me, that starts with alcohol, and then gets flooded with the saddest music I listen to.  I will often times watch [...]

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Album Review: TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light

I’m pretty tired tonight, so I’ll make this quick.

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