Reviews
Concert Review: Enter Shikari in Cologne, 03/27/16
Enter Shikari have proved numerous times that they are a force to be reckoned with, so of course I had to see them once more when they played Cologne past Sunday. The show at ...
Album Review: Domo Genesis – Genesis
Former Odd Future rapper Domo Genesis has finally broken out of his shell with his debut album “Genesis”. Genesis is a far cry from Under The Influence 2, and Domo has ditched the classic ...
[Blogs from the Pit] The Color Before the Sun Tour @ The Fillmore 03/05/16
A few weekends ago I made the hike back to Philadelphia for The Color Before The Sun Tour with headliner Coheed and Cambria alongside Glassjaw and I The Mighty, with opening act Silver Snakes. ...
Album Review: I LOVE MAKONNEN – Drink More Water 6
Drink More Water 6 is by far my least favorite album of the year. With a combination of unimpressive vocals and amateurish flows this album makes for an extremely unpleasant listening experience. I didn’t ...
Album Review: Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered
Untitled Unmastered is about what you would expect from an album full of songs that weren’t good enough to make it onto the best hip hop album of the decade. I love Kendrick, and ...
Album Review: Yung Lean – Warlord
In the early 2010s a new music genre was born called vaporwave (also called vapourwave), and with it came aesthetic. Yung Lean was one of the biggest influences on aesthetic and vaporwave as a whole ...
Album Review: The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep…
I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It. An unorthodox album name, that’s even more strange when you consider lead singer Matty Healy said in an ...
[Blogs from the Pit] Safetysuit Live @ The Foundry 02/17/16
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hitting up the Safetysuit show in Philly at The Foundry. Let me start by saying what a cool little venue this place is! Ok, so it’s technically a ...
Album Review: Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
So, it’s no big secret that the production of Kanye West’s latest effort, something that West himself touted and paraded as “the best album of all time”, was incredibly unorganized. Many tracklist changes, changes ...
Did the Force Truly Awaken? My “Rant-Review”
(featured image appears courtesy of nme.com) First, before I start, let me give a disclaimer here: I am an “S.W. O.G.” (Star Wars O.G.) This means my geekdom does not end with A New ...
Product Review: Thumbs Up Touch Speaker Boombox Review
Altwire recently received this awesome touch speaker boombox from Thumbs Up out of the UK. Compatible with most smart phones and MP3’s with external speakers, it involves no pairing or cables. Instead, through using ...
KFace TV brings us Star Wars Rap Battles!
Click here for KFace TV’s YouTube Channel: KFace TV on YouTube! OK, I have a confession… This is hard for me, Darth Prefectus, to admit. I just found myself rooting for a Jedi and a ...
Album Review: Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams
In what has become a rather predictable, but welcomed pattern in Coldplay’s lineage of studio albums, the band have yet again made a sharp veer to the left, this time onto the abstract, psychedelic ...
Album Review: Stone Sour – Straight Outta Burbank (EP)
Stone Sour has been a mainstay on rock radio for the last couple of years, with the band being sometimes incorrectly labeled by some casual listeners as Corey Taylor’s side project. While this is ...
Album Review: The Yavin 4 – Intergalactic Rock n Roll
Album Link: theyavin4.bandcamp.com/ Fact: Here’s an interesting tidbit for all the Star Wars n00bs reading this. Yavin 4 is the moon where the rebel base was located in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope! I ...
Single Review: Miley Cyrus’ “Lighter” Has Little Flame
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, so I will readily admit that over the years I have developed a certain fondness for pop music’s free-spirited, nude-loving, glitter-covered girl, Miley Cyrus. I also have an ...
Album Review: Born Ruffians – RUFF
I like Born Ruffians. I’m a huge fan of the sweet lyrics and soft, carefree guitar and harmonica in “Little Garçon” from their first album Red, Yellow & Blue. By their third album, Birthmarks, ...
Album Review: JR JR, JR JR
JR JR, a Detroit-based electronic-indie-pop duo formerly known as Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, released a self-titled album this past friday. Having heard their previous album and enjoyed it (it had all the elements of ...
Album Review: Disturbed – Immortalized
Since Disturbed’s formation in 1994, the members of the American heavy metal band have built quite a reputation for themselves in the music industry while serving as an influence for many aspiring artists. Although ...
Soaked In Bleach (2015): Kurt Cobain Death Conspiracy
For over 21 years, the death of Kurt Cobain has struck controversy for people worldwide. Following the release of the film, Montage of Heck, which can certainly be described as a montage of, well, ...