Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

The band’s first album as a duo and a resounding return to their peak form.

Havalina returns to Tooth & Nail Records with another unique and delightfully quirky album.

A blend of jazz, trip-hop, and downtempo music that stood out from everything else I heard at this year’s Cornerstone.

Each of these songs feels convincingly, painfully convicted.

One great martial arts fight after another as well as a good message about tolerance and respecting your spouse’s culture.

Royal City has moved from being a band that hinted at greatness with their debut to an act that fully realized that potential in one enormous step.

A sometimes humorous, but more often scathing look at the Serb-Bosnian conflict.

Donnie Yen’s directorial efforts are so self-assured, so blatant, and so… bad.

Nathan Amundson has quietly established himself as a singer/songwriter to watch.

As a fan of all things drone-y, blissed out, and dreampop, this one hit the sweet spot.

Contains some of Jackie’s most insane stunts and martial artistry as well as plenty of cheese and schlock.

AMP has indeed changed their sound, and not managed to totally disappoint in doing it.

Enter Spriggan, the Commando of the anime world, with an Indiana Jones twist.

Perception’s strength lies in the fact that it takes seemingly unrelated sound sources and combines them into glorious music.

One of the hardest things of all to understand about this album is why it sounds so much like everything the people in the songs want to escape.

This two-hour distillation of the 30-episode TV series is an incoherent mess.

Guaranteed to open up a new fanbase for Gomez while still appealing to the already impressive and varied one they have accumulated over the years.

The mix of bizarre sonics, lyrical freakshows, and normal songcraft definitely feed off each other.

A crucial album to restore your faith in the music industry.

In truth, Frazer’s voice is what truly sells this album for me.