Weekly EP: Ariel Pink, Weyes Blood blend smoothly
Life is full of successful unexpected combinations that people would not think would work. Take peanut butter and jelly, for example, or Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. While the collaboration between prolific singer-songwriter Ariel Pink and Weyes Blood, one of…
Ty Segall delivers selftitled album fans will love
Another year, another Ty Segall release. The nearly 30-year-old San Francisco rocker’s newest addition to his rich and ever-growing catalogue certainly does not disappoint the die-hard fans wondering if he can continue his almost unrivaled consistency of quality albums. Segall…
Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ gives viewers hope for director again
Kicking the new year off in the box office is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest horror film, “Split.” The film follows three young women who are kidnapped by a man named Kevin, played by James McAvoy (“X-Men: Apocalypse”), who suffers from…
‘The Young Pope’ succeeds with brilliant performances
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope” is HBO’s newest and certainly most unique series to start off the 2017 television season. It is an elaborate, strange and enchanting story that arguably takes an episode to get moving, but even after only…
‘A Dog’s Purpose,’ predictable, compassionate, heartfelt
The film “A Dog’s Purpose” has been a hot topic of discussion after a video surfaced on the popular gossip website TMZ. The leaked footage showed a startled German shepard being forced into churning water and then disappearing for a…
Foxygen’s ‘Hang’ gives listeners nothing original
The California native duo, Foxygen, released their fifth studio album, “Hang,” on Jan. 20. Starting out at the age of 15 in 2005, Foxygen’s Sam France and Jonathan Rado released four EPs before Jagjaguar records found them in 2011. They…
