Week four is that time of the quarter just shy of being “halfway there,” yet far enough that we find ourselves with plenty of work on our plates. Alas, we have six more weeks of this coming our way, so if you are feeling the mental fatigue already, I would like to offer up a great way to help...
Brent Faiyaz is another name on the growing list of young R&B voices who have created noise on the charts in the past year. He sits in this position with other artists on the verge of major breakthroughs like Syd, Jorja Smith and Steve Lacy. Faiyaz hit a milestone in his career in 2017 with his feature on the...
In the blink of an eye, week three has arrived, and with it begins the horrors of midterm season. Since it is the first quarter of the year, some of us may find it difficult to get into the state of mind which requires us to sit still, read, write and do some problem solving. Concentrating can be especially...
Archy Marshall is an agent of mystique and low profile in a media climate where that is hard to accomplish. Being a very enigmatic character, he has nearly as many stage monikers as projects released. These include Edgar the Beatmaker, Zoo Kid, his birth name (which he assumed to produce his 2015 visual album “A New Place 2 Drown”...
Kelela’s asymmetrically shaved head has become a marker for the singer. As of late, she has accented the end of her locks with diamonds, inducing regality and elegance, two descriptors which encapsulate her ambitiously graceful debut, “Take Me Apart.”
On the cover, a nude Kelela sits in repose, her petite face shrouded like a half moon by her long flowing...
Gwen Stefani has attempted to bring the Christmas feeling a little early with the release of her latest album, “You Make It Feel Like Christmas,” featuring her own takes on classic songs such as “Silent Night” and “Let it Snow,” alongside six new tracks.
Stefani opens up the album with a joyful rendition of “Jingle Bells,” which features her...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 50 Cent’s chef d’oeuvre, “In Da Club,” plays truant in “Happy Death Day.” Tragic, but there’s a silver lining in this grievance: The film ain’t too bad. Well, it’s not good either but, hey it’s a success by Blumhouse’s standards. It’s a shameless “Groundhog Day”-meets-generic-slasher flick buttressed by a...
Discourse - “Sanity Decays”
South Carolina-based hardcore band, Discourse, released “Sanity Decays” in 2015. Each track’s message can only be delivered through a rawness that consolidates the harsh vocals with powerful drums and momentous guitar. Tracks such as “Bars Surround” and “Time Pries” bring forth the intense introspection with hardcore rhythms to get their messages across. While sonically driven by...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng.
In her debut fictional novel “Everything I Never Told You,” Celeste Ng writes a hauntingly beautiful tale about a Chinese-American family which has...
If you're looking for a high budget, high-profile cast documentary that exposes a novel human condition, then “A Day Without A Mexican” is not for you. The film, which was screened on the 5th and 6th of October at the Culver Center as part of the Mundos Alternos exhibition, was directed by Sergio Arau and uses comedy to bring...