Rise of the Planet of the Apes is able to stop much of the decline of quality that was had between the first and second movies in their original iteration due to the strength of the actors here. James Franco, John Lithgow, and Andy Serkis all unite here to make a film that both stays relatively true to the original film while expanding upon the mythos and storyline of the…
We are relatively new to the benefits of an intra-workout, but wanted to provide our inaugural coverage of these products by giving some love to SciVation’s Xtend. We were provided with a bottle of the Lemon-Lime Sour flavor (there are also Watermelon, Grape, Orange, Raspberry and Green Apple flavors available) for purchase. Each bottle contains 30 servings and can be purchased directly from the Scivation online store. The miscibility of…
To help advance Show Hope’s™ mission of caring for the most pressing needs of orphans around the world and to commemorate the life of Maria Sue Chapman, a star-studded cast is teaming up with the Nashville Symphony to present the classic musical, Rodgers And Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Enchanted Edition, for the third annual Show Hope Spring Celebration. This “one-night-only” concert performance will again offer colorful costumes, a flourish of makeup, a…
DR. ACULA will kick off 2012 with a headlining tour across the U.S. joined by DESIGN THE SKYLINE & more. The February tour begins in Illinois and hits Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston and more, ending in Poughkeepsie in early March. DR. ACULA is gearing up for the release of their new music video recently shot in Chicago for “Party 2.0” off of their 2011 release, Slander. F*ck All Your Friends…
blessthefall will join We Came As Romans and Emmure on the Fire and Ice Tour in Spring of 2012. Additional support will come from Woe Is Me, and The Color Morale. Following a successful winter headlining The Fearless Friends Tour, and European run with Asking Alexandria, blessthefall will tour North America in support of their album Awakening, which debuted at #31 on the Billboard Top 200 charts. The band recently…
12/31 – The Satellite Los Angeles, CA – w/ Henry Clay People, LA Font 1/17 – The Roxy West Hollywood, CA – w/ The Silent Comedy, Taylor Locke (Rooney) 01/20 – The New Parish – Oakland, CA* 01/21 – Blue Lamp – Sacramento, CA* 01/24 – The Wild Buffalo – Bellingham, WA* 01/25 – Media Club – Vancouver, BC* 01/26 – Bell Tower – Pullman, WA* 01/27 – Red Room…
Southern California metallers THE DEVASTATED will head out on the “F*ck! All Your Friends Tour” with DR. ACULA, DESIGN THE SKYLINE and on select dates, IN DYING ARMS . Beginning on February 1st in Barrington, IL and wrapping up on March 7th in Poughkeepsie, NY, THE DEVASTATED will bring their niche brand of grimy heavy music to the masses. Fans can expect to hear new material taken from the band’s…
As much as I wanted to say that Jules Shear has a sound that is similar to Bob Dylan during the opening track of “Dreams Don’t Count”, the fact is that Shear blazes a path for eirself by only the third or forth minute of the disc. The tracks are fairly dreamy, with the sound of acoustic rock bolstered by an atmosphere that cradles Shear’s output at all sections of…
Just 6 months after the release of their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Sunshadows’, The Echocentrics return with a new EP, ‘Echoland.’ The EP is a tribute to the inimitable hip-hop producer, Timbaland, featuring live instrumental (with one vocal tune) reinterpretations of classic Timbo tracks. The Echocentrics is a project by Grammy award winning producer/musician Adrian Quesada, best known for his work with Grupo Fantasma, Brownout and Ocote Soul Sounds. DJ,…
AC/DC is still an amazing act. However, I was only really able to hear their music – I was not as privy to the band’s ins and outs as my father, for example. However, Mark Evans (AC/DC’s first bass player) is able to provide the information that I was missing. Evans shows how unique of a band that AC/DC truly was; they came from Australia at a point where all…
The first track on (S)he’s album sounds a lot like Destiny’s Child and the other women-centric acts on the market today. From the beginning of the disc (S)he sounds as if they have drawn heavily from a number of similar sounding acts. (S)he goes into a more gospel like style with “Temptation”, to the degree that the track sounds very influenced by acts like Trin-I-Tee 5:7 and Nicole C. Mullen.…
The best-selling new artist of 2011, The City Harmonic continues to gather acclaim for its first full-length album, I Have A Dream (It Feels Like Home). The hit single “Manifesto,” featured as a bonus track on the album, has now sold over 100,000 copies, while the album’s title track is No.16 and climbing on the Billboard National Christian Audience chart. With KLOVE, Air1 and other radio networks playing the song,…
We have not had much of a chance to use products that are touted to reduce joint paint or inflammation. However, we do get pretty banged up after a few days of working out, and Joint Rehab may just be the product that can get ice packs off knees and elbows and individuals back in their gym. All-American EFX’s unique formulation, using Kre-Celazine, ensures rapid removal of the symptoms that…
Jack Blades was in Night Ranger and Damn Yankees. Tommy Shaw was in Styx. Together they are Shaw-Blades, and they don’t play anything original on this album. Tracks confront listeners from acts like Seals & Crofts, Paul Simon, and the Mamas and the Papas. From these two individuals, who created some of the harder rock and hair metal of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, to hear a song like “Summer…
Last month, French black metal enigmas GLORIOR BELLI made their first ever North American appearance at Montreal’s Messe des Morts festival. The ceremony took place at Coop Katacombes on November 25 and 26 and included live rituals from some of black metal’s most esteemed creators. Commented vocalist/guitarist Julien of the experience: “Thanks to [fest organizer] Martin [Marcotte; Sepulchral Productions] and the rest of the crew, we had the chance to…
Chillerama is a comedic send-off of Troma and fifties/sixties movies; there are five distinct storylines that are occurring during the space of this film. Each one of these films is a short-form flick that takes on a different side of the z-movie genre, all to varying degrees of success. A who’s who of current directors try their hand at these different styles, including Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs), Adam Rifkin (Detroit…
It seems that there has been a dearth of interactive dance sims that do not only focus on pop or dance tracks. Country Dance and Country Dance 2, this year’s sequel, look to fix this problem. To ensure that the game’s different moves are captured correctly, one just has to move around the Wii Remote. The inclusion of the duet dancing mode is perhaps the best addition – the choreography…
Christmas Angel is a film that showcases exactly how problematic an individual’s daily life can be. With everything going wrong to a degree, Ashley (Kari Hawker) gets a major dash to eir day when ey realizes that the job that ey applied for has already been filled. Nick (Bruce Davison) is Ashley’s neighbor, and has dedicated eir life to providing warmth and happiness to everyone that ey meets. The two…
There is a considerable amount of difference between the different gloves on the market. While it is true that some of winter’s chill can be blocked by a pair of cheap gloves, there is so much more provided by Isotoner’s Metis gloves. The skin-tight style of the glove removes any space for a chill to get in, while the silk / leather combination of the gloves ensure no removal of…
Combine a love for the blues with a bottle of funk, and a heaping helping of old fashioned rock and roll and you’ve got the sound of The Few. Often compared to such bands as The Black Keys or Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, The Few lay down riffs that hearken back to the days when Led Zeppelin was king. When deciding which tracks to include on Headstock, The Few…