Bloc Party is a very important band to me. With their debut record SILENT ALARM (which of course I’ll say more about soon enough), the British indie rock group cemented itself as a favorite of mine for all time. Their subsequent releases (there are six studio albums over the 17…

I’ve found the Action Bronson “universe” to be pretty absorbing. The Albanian rapper from Queens developed a dedicated fanbase as early as 2011 with his first mixtape, which flourished into Vice-driven territory and expanded success through TV hosting gigs fueled by a generally fun (and funny) persona. Well, from my…

I remember seeing THE WITCH in 2015 and thinking this Robert Eggers guy is pretty good. When I discovered it was only his first feature, I was blown away, as it had the restrained hand of someone who had been at it for longer. But then, the guy had been…

I read the first four Harry Potter books more than a dozen times, the fifth a “mere” ten or so, the sixth several, and the final a couple. This was all by the time I was 11 or so (the HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS novel was released in…

Besides his great work with The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather, singer-songwriter and resident rock weirdo Jack White has created an impressive body of work under his own name since he began releasing solo albums in 2012. In the ten years and across four records since then…

The Red Hot Chili Peppers used to be my favorite band. After being exposed to them by my parents at a young age, the famed funk/rock/alternative band became the object of my musical obsession in my middle school and early high school years. Even though that obsession has lapsed, RHCP…

Welcome to “Emmys Evaluated,” a series that looks at the nominations and wins in the television industry’s foremost awards ceremony and performs some revisionist history to retroactively pick the winners from the categories and nominees the The Television Academy selected. By the 14th ceremony, the Emmy Awards had taken on…

We’ve finally reached it: the year I was born. 1996. 26 years ago (although at the time of this writing I’m still blessedly 25). It’s also been a year and a half since I wrote up my best games of 1995 piece, representative of the ever-growing scope of the video…

Fans of SNK’s fighting games are on another level. What was once a major player in the arcade space has become relatively obscured in the passages of time. Look, I’m not saying Metal Slug or King of Fighters are suddenly some kind of unheard of series. But I think fans…