A couple weeks ago, my idiot self decided to search the word “fart” on Spotify, you know, for science. Lo and behold, I find FARTBARF, and believe it or not, they’re fantastic. A week later and I’m walking into El Cid, one of my favorite LA venues and the crowd is buzzing, anxious to see
Variety named filmmakers and co-directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead to its top 10 directors to watch for 2015. According to Variety, Benson and Moorhead “break the mold” in their previous genre bending feature Resolution and Spring, an iconoclastic horror drama that brings infuses new life into a tired old saw. It is a revelation
Mad Max: Fury Road, the much anticipated grandniece of Mad Max stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy as equal partners, battling outrageous odds on their journey out of chaos. The imagery is as startling and ugly/beautiful as one would expect and the chase and battle scenes as masterful, imaginative and insane. It’s a freak show
The best possible reason to go for a night out on the Sunset Strip in all its historic glitz, glamour, top-dollar drinks and plastic surgery would have to be the Flamin’ Groovies. On May the 13th, 2015 these guys graced the stage at the Roxy once more to play Shake Some Action in its entirety,
Crocodiles are a Noise Pop group from San Diego that started to get some attention in 2008 after their single “Neon Jesus” was featured on a list of top picks of songs that year by group of a similar stylistic inclination No Age. They were originally a duo consisting of Brandon Welchez on guitar and
A cute walk through history with an unwilling history-maker. Felix Herngren’s comedy has made a big splash in European markets but is going to have tougher going in the USA. Although the film will probably unseat the reigning champion “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” at the box office, its extreme creativity is hamstring by
Although The Boy Next Door borrows the formula of past thrillers and all twists are easy to see coming, the film manages enough suspense to make it entertaining. The ensemble cast is solid and the pace is fast enough to keep the audience from realizing they have seen this movie a thousand times before. Directed
The palatial main room of Downtown Los Angeles’ Exchange was dark, lit only by multicolored spotlights, lasers and a massive LED display behind the stage. Gary Richards looks at his packed crowd behind the DJ Decks, he’s smiling, because he knows what will happen when the song kicks back in. This past Saturday Richards, or
Ethan Hawke’s haunting portrayal of a US Army drone pilot in Good Kill highlights the moral, emotional and psychological traps of consenting to be a warrior. He leads a double life, one in which he murders Afghanis remotely from the comfort of a protected facility outside Las Vegas and the other trying to live with
H.R. Giger was a Swiss artist who bore no resemblance to most Swiss. He was a provocateur, creating artwork unlike anything else – metallic, filled with imagery of female genitalia giving birth and skeletal but alive – put him on the map. Giger won a Special Effects Academy Award for his work on Alien and