Shlohmo’s latest album, Dark Red, feels dense and foreboding; it’s the type of music you might want to listen to with the shades drawn and the lights off. Before listening to the LP, just by glancing at track titles such…
Chazwick Bundick, better known as Toro y Moi, has been at the forefront of “chillwave” music since his career breakthrough in the indie community sometime around 2010. Chillwave is synonymous with much of his early music, most notably his debut…
It was Valentine’s day and my father was going to see Fifty Shades of Gray with his 23-year-old girlfriend. I had to be out of the house for the night. Fortunately on this same day I bought Legend of Zelda:…
“I remember you was conflicted/Misusing your influence/Sometimes I did the same,” Such is the dilemma plaguing one Kendrick Lamar, rap’s newest messiah. The Compton MC is asking the ghost of his mentor (none other than 2Pac) if he truly deserved…
Nothing is scarier than reality. A moment in which you realize you might possibly die is petrifying and immobilizing. That is what sexual assault survivors’ experience. Stories try and capture the human condition, and films are a visualization of that.…
A modern day Odysseus roams across America with sails of rubber and a ship of steel in the Staller Center this week. That Odysseus (or rather Odyssea) is Penny, a graduate student at a university that might as well be…
It’s not the most original idea in the world for a movie. One man by himself, trying to survive against all odds. Tom Hanks drove the vast majority of a film playing a man stranded on an island for four…
It makes sense that Big Sean is one of Kanye West’s closest proteges. He’s basically the fun half of Kanye turned into his own rapper: nerdy references, clever (if not sometimes dorky) punchlines and an occasionally goofy flow. If Kanye’s…
Well, it’s official; Drake is the saddest diva in music. The Toronto rapper has been known to struggle with success more than flaunt it, but lately he seems much happier being “rap superstar” Drake. From his hosting gig at the…