Starfucker and Cold War Kids
The gates opened for ASPB’s Block Party at 5:30 p.m. and thousands of UCR students flooded the grounds. Donned in what seemed to be their most attractive festival wear, indie music fans ran first for the main stage where Portland band, Starfucker, would soon perform. Concert Directors Jenny Guzman and Nneoma Akubuilo hosted the...
Many people have never seen anything like it. “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Six Feet Under,” “Oz“ and more have barely come close to the enthralling spectacle created before viewers everywhere. The series even tops the charts in comparison to classic HBO television shows. The narrative began with a simple premise and decent time slot on Sundays on the AMC...
The undeniably talented Ira Glass, known for his work on “This American Life,” a radio show about real people and their real lives, has taken his work to the big screen with his film, “Sleepwalk With Me.” The film follows comedian Mike Birbiglia, fictionalized as Matt Pandamiglio, as he attempts to make a career as a comedian. However, the...
Just see this movie. Really, if you are a fan of action movies or just want to have some solid entertainment for an hour and a half, treat yourself to “Dredd 3D.” I know the 1995 Judge Dredd movie was terrible and that you probably aren’t familiar with the comic series, but trust me: this is how you do...
We were somewhere around San Diego at the edge of the convention center when the heat began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I can’t see in this mask, maybe I should take off this costume,” and suddenly there was a terrible smell all around us and the streets were full of bloated caricatures of superheroes and...
Swedish garage rock band The Hives have released their first full-length album in five years, but don’t stray far from their signature style.
The album, titled “Lex Hives,” is irritatingly hyper-repetitive at times. The opening track, “Come on,” consists only of the lyrics “everybody come on,” sung over a canned track of a cheering crowd. Intended as a pump-up album...
On a cozy island located near New England, 12-year-olds Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop have begun writing letters to one another. On the surface, Sam and Suzy appear to be much like any ordinary child their age living in a small town community. Sam is an intelligent and ingenuitive "Khaki Scout" in a local summer camp, and Suzy is...
Summer 2012 will be jam-packed with exciting movie releases, beginning with “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” on July 22. It looks so shameless that it just might be awesome.
Next comes the highly anticipated “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” starring Keira Knightley and Steve Carell. The tale begins when an asteroid strikes the earth, and a man...
After a two-year hiatus and a vocal chord surgery, John Mayer has returned to the industry with a bang. Mayer’s highly anticipated new album, “Born and Raised,” was released Tuesday, May 22. The album’s 13 tracks seem to show a more innocent and raw form of Mayer’s already soothing, bluesy music.
Mayer, after his controversial interviews with Rolling Stone and...
KUCR continued its highly successful “Comedy Apocalypse” series Wednesday night at the Barn—this time as the “2012 Election Year Political Face-Melt edition.” For the fifth installment of the series, four critically-acclaimed comics were featured, and the audience couldn’t get enough.
While the theme of the evening was political, the performers used a wide range of comedic styles, making for a...