Reviews

Do you like Star Wars? Can you spend hours on end picking apart the minutiae of the movies and discussing them endlessly? Do you know all the trivia? Could you spend twenty minutes talking about one minute of screen time? If you answered yes to any of Read More

This month I bring you a new band, an epic three album series, and some funny music. Yup, it’s quite the diverse bunch for this one. On to the music! Read More

For this set of quickies, I’ll be featuring covers, toys, and unexplored genres. As usual, the length of the review has nothing to do with the quality of the music. Read More

With more great talent than you can shake a stick at, the Backburner crew returns after four long years with a killer sophomore album, Eclipse. Given that their debut, Heatwave, appeared on my best of 2011, it’s no surprise that from the first notes, Read More

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies concludes the film trilogy, based on the book The Hobbit, and is the sixth movie for the Peter Jackson-helmed Middle Earth saga. The 3-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo package contains the movie in Blu-ray and regular DVD Read More

Wizard World Raleigh has come and gone, but the memories remain. For its first outing in the Triangle, I have to say that they know how to do it right. Then again, they've been at this for years, so a well-oiled machine is to be expected. I attended Read More

When Aramis first sent us his album, I knew I’d heard his name before. Turns out not only does he play the role of Prog on Alpha Riff’s Digital Champions: Migdal Bavel, I also had a random track by him called “For My N3rdz,” which is from his Black Adam Read More

It seems to me wholly appropriate that the MC known as Ultra Magnus shares a name with one of the Transformers (a fact brought home with various bits of dialogue sprinkled throughout the album and the track “Autobot Anthem”). His rap style can transform Read More

A couple of days ago, I posted some important information about The FuMP and promised I’d have some reviews up. And now here they are! Read More

It’s no secret that I’m a huge Marc with a C fan. It’s pretty obvious why: he consistently puts out really great music. And I really like his attitude about indie / geek music in general. Plus he showed me how great music on vinyl can be. In fact, his Read More

This month’s quickies feature an artist who contacted me via Twitter, some covers, and the return of a couple of nerdcore artists that we haven’t heard from for some time. Read More

Sci-Fried’s fifth album, Season V, features various flavors of rock and nerdiness, just as we’ve come to expect from the best geek rock band around (keeping in mind that Kirby Krackle is “nerd rock.” Which is to say, they’re both the tops of their Read More