When you are the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane, chances are music runs in your blood. Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, has been making music for a while, just not where you’d think. He has done ad work for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming and released a few albums but this record is cool in a whole new way. His expertise is experimental electronics, underground hip hop and some Indie type music and you can hear all of those influences right here.
With guests like Thom Yorke, Thundercat, Laura Darlington and his cousin Ravi Coltrane, this makes for some fun listening.
Gipsy Kings
by Bea August 26th, 2010 | Album Review, Artist Review
I cannot believe that I have not written about the Gipsy Kings yet! If I had to pick a favorite musical group, I think that my all-time favorite would be them. I do not know what it is about their sound; I could just listen to them all day and on repeat. Their music is the only music that I can listen to while I am studying and they are the ones who I put on when I just need something to distract me from my thoughts.
The Gipsy Kings are a Spanish-language group from Arles and Montpellier, France. I
The Gipsy Kings are a Spanish-language group from Arles and Montpellier, France. I
Arcade Fire, The Suburbs, 8/3/10
by J Frazzetta August 24th, 2010 | Album Review
Very few albums grab a feeling or place in time and pull it off really well. With that said, even fewer bands really try to capture ideas or mentalities to share with a mass audience. Somehow, Arcade Fire manage to capture life in the suburbs of America, alienation by a younger crowd and a rising up of a collective conscience better than many bands of the last decade. On their third album, the band tackles that gray area that isn’t quite the city but isn’t really the countryside in The Suburbs.
I started listening to these guys a year or so
I started listening to these guys a year or so
His Name is Jonah
by Jason Lightner August 19th, 2010 | Artist Review, Emerging Artists
When I was five, my favorite artist was Twisted Sister. My parents bought me a kids' drum set because they figured it would be a good way to keep me entertained and out of trouble (they also did it to piss off the neighbors they were feuding with, but I digress). I wasn't very good at the drums; to this day I can't play them to save my life. I just don't have rhythm like that. That's why I flipped the eff out when I saw five-year-old Jonah Rocks.
Jonah Rocks is a better drummer than many whom I
Jonah Rocks is a better drummer than many whom I
Featured Video– “Teenage Dream” Katy Perry
by Jenn McD. August 18th, 2010 | Video Review
This past week Katy Perry debuted her new video for her single “Teenage Dream.” I absolutely loved this video! I really think that the song and the video truly convey the desires that teenagers want for themselves when it comes to a relationship and finding the love of their life.
The first half of the video is Katy and her boyfriend driving to the beach on a gorgeous day. Their friends are following them in the car behind them. I feel like that scene really shows that carefree, no-worries attitude that we all want in life.
In between the all the
The first half of the video is Katy and her boyfriend driving to the beach on a gorgeous day. Their friends are following them in the car behind them. I feel like that scene really shows that carefree, no-worries attitude that we all want in life.
In between the all the