“All the very best of us / String ourselves up for love.”
— The National, "Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks"
It was some day in mid-March of this year that my grandpa passed. I don’t even remember the date off the top of my head — I’m not sure if that’s bad. Within all the madness of out-of-state family flying in for...
What do you get when you fuse beach funk and a sunny day by the pool? An abundance of good vibes and an eager crowd comprised of UC Riverside students and talented musicians. On Saturday, May 10, Red Bull hosted its first New Beat Fund Beach-Side event in Riverside for UCR students. Among some of the notable musicians were...
Unsurprisingly, “Governed As It Were By Chance” picks up right where the last episode left off — with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) and Dyad lackey Daniel (Matthew Bennett) in a car crash. What is surprising, though, is who crashed into them: Kira’s (Skyler Wexler) probable father, Cal (Michiel Huisman). And he did it to save Sarah from Daniel, who is...
Lykke Li is no stranger to heartache. Her debut album, “Youth Novels,” and its successor, “Wounded Rhymes,” have each had their share of the blues, and Li proceeds to sing the same tune with her new album, “I Never Learn.” She describes it as the third part of a trilogy chronicling the life of a woman in her 20s,...
Before listening to “Nikki Nack,” Merrill Garbus’ third full-length album under tUnE-yArDs, I had listened very little to the music project before. I had them recommended to me, but for whatever reason neglected to give them too much time — maybe it was the junior-high-Myspace-esque capitalization techniques employed in the writing of their name. And after one listen to...
“Dark Souls II” has finally come out on Steam to the sound of PC gamers everywhere rejoicing and preemptively rage quitting. The latest in From Software’s “Souls” series, this game comes with the promise of great gameplay, a nearly incomprehensible story and so many deaths that the previous game was given a “Prepare to Die” edition. Fortunately, the game...
As a writer, I know that every story stems from some sort of life experience. Whether it is a memoir or fiction, there is always a personal influence, no matter how minuscule it is. While watching last Friday’s play, “Bearing Our Soles,” I realized that few people can document their life experiences as vividly as Regina Louise. Not only...
Young Magic has always been a hybrid group, able to mix electronic and pop with global elements. The group is comprised of Isaac Emmanuel and Michael Italia, who both come from diverse backgrounds. Emmanuel, a native Australian, and Italia, who has Indonesian roots, spent time exploring abroad before forming the group, and ultimately made this album while touring four...
Trailers are notorious for being misleading. You think a movie is going to be good — until you are 30 minutes into the movie and it is too late for a refund. The first trailer for Nicholas Stoller’s new film, “Neighbors,” aired in September, and I was led to believe that the film was your run-of-the-mill party movie with...
Two hip-hop brothers performed last Wednesday here at UCR — and it was awesome. Evidence and Alchemist recently released a long overdue album together as Step Brothers, titled “Lord Steppington,” and they performed their new material, sprinkled with their prolific catalog, at the Barn for the Riverside crowd to go crazy over.
As what has almost become Barn tradition, hip-hop...