Tegan & Sara at Town Hall NYC 10/30/09
Tegan & Sara kicked off their two night stint at New York’s Town Hall tonight and I’ve got your first report on the show.
Archive for October, 2009
Concerts, Music
October 31, 2009
Books, Music, The Written Word
October 30, 2009
ON IN AT – Tegan & Sara Book Review
ON IN AT is a 3 book collection released alongside Tegan & Sara’s new album Sainthood. Each of the books is totally different and covers a different topic. ON covers their North American tour in 2008, IN covers a 5 day period where T&S went to New Orleans and tried to write together for the first time every, and AT covers their 08-09 tour in Austrialia. The books are available right now only at shows and at MapleMusic. They’re costly, so are they worth the price?
Video Games
Tropico 3 – Review
Tropico 3 is the third installment in the twisted sim series “Tropico”. In the series you are a dictator of an unnamed tropical island and you must build an island to either help or wreak havok on your citizens. The Tropico games have always been pretty simple. Basically the goal is usually to avoid getting kicked out of office or killed. And that’s not really too different here. While the other two Tropico’s and their add-ons were released too long ago for me to have a proper memory of the details I can guide you through this installment.
TV
Friday Night Lights Season 4 – East of Dillon
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose
Friday Night Lights was a show that by typical tv standards should not be here. It’s one of those shows that’s “too good to live”. We’ve lost so many great shows that were nothing less than masterpieces simply because of that fact. Friday Night Lights always was going to be one of those shows. You could tell even the people making the show felt that way when Season One ended. They did not expect to be back. But back they were. Season 2 was pretty rocky but it found it’s legs and once again became the show we loved. Then of course it was time for it to be cancelled. But the unimaginable happened. DirectTV subsidized a Third season that would air first on their exclusive 101 network with longer episodes and then later in the year air on NBC as usual. NBC of course saw this as a pretty great deal and took it and we got a Third Season that was brilliant. So brilliant that DirectTV and NBC thought this deal should happen again with Season Four. So here we are. Season Four just premiered this week on DirectTV and of course any fan who knows how to use a computer isn’t waiting till it premieres on NBC to watch it.
TV
October 29, 2009
Watch This: Castle
Castle is one of those shows that it would be easy to miss. In a tv landscape oversaturated with procedurals of every kind, one more little cop show airing Mondays at 10pm on ABC is certainly easy to skip right over. It’s not the most advertised show, and it started midseason last year (well this year but we’re talking tv years here). But there’s plenty of reasons to be watching it and skipping over some of the lamer contenders in the category.
Site News
October 27, 2009
We need your input
We’re going to be taking a few days off from any heavy posting, but we’ll be back with a much improved site. And we’ll still have about a post a day.
However we need some help. Leave us a comment with what you’d like to see and how we can improve the site for you. Any input at all will help us out. Let us know what’s working for you and what’s not.
Some of the things already in the works:
-More independent media coverage (smaller bands, indie films, etc.)
-Some fixes to the some style issues
-More posts per day about more topics
Things we need help with:
-Contributors – I cannot stress how much we need some more writers. It’s such an easy process and you can get a lot out of it. Just use the contact page to get in touch if you’re interested.
-Send us your stuff, or someone else’s stuff that you wanna see on here. We can’t cover independent stuff unless we get it. Got a kick ass band who happens to have a new EP or album out? Send us a link to it. Made a film? We wanna see it. Wrote a book? Drew a comic? Wrote the next great screenplay? We want to read them. You get free press for your work and we get content. Win/win. Just contact us using the contact page. We won’t guarantee a good review but you can be assured if we love it we’ll sing it’s praises all over the net. And we won’t share your work with anyone (unless you want us to).
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Albums, Music
October 26, 2009
Spinnerette s/t – Album Review
Spinnerette is the new band from Brody Dalle of The Distillers. Together with Alain Johannes, Tony Bevilacqua (another Distillers member), and Jack Irons (formerly of Pearl Jam) they released their first full length album earlier this year after endlessly teasing us with EPs.
Albums, Music
October 25, 2009
Nirvana – Bleach 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Review
This one’s off our first album. Most people don’t own it.
Bleach was Nirvana’s first album, an often overlooked grunge masterpiece originally released in 1989. For the 20th anniversary Sub Pop is re-releasing it in a deluxe edition re-mastered by original producer Jack Endino and including a concert from the era as well as a 48 page booklet on November 3rd. So is it worth it?
Film
Paranormal Activity – Movie Review
Paranormal Activity is a Blair Witch style horror film, filmed entirely in the first person about a couple who find themselves experiencing odd things in their house. It’s being sold as one of the scariest movies ever. We’ll with a bold statement like that I had to check it out for myself.
TV
October 24, 2009
White Collar – TV Pilot Review
White Collar is USA’s newest show. It premiered last night fittingly enough in Psych’s timeslot. It’s basic premise is that a con man/art thief/art forger/etc. breaks out of jail and the only FBI agent who was good enough to catch him the first time is called in from the middle of a tough case to catch him again. He manages to track down the fugitive rather quickly. It turns out he escaped to find his girlfriend who had dumped him. She has disappeared off the grid. He makes a deal with the agent to be let out into his custody under the circumstances that he’ll help the FBI catch this other guy and if he tries to escape he’ll go back to jail, not for the 4 years he’s supposed to, but for life.
