When you really love a movie, you tend to love everything about it. When I first saw (500) Days Of Summer in 2009, I instantly related to the story. I had suffered my own heart-wrenching, world-ending breakup just a few months prior to the film’s…
Every once in awhile, I come across an album that I love so much that I just can’t stop listening to it. I’ll put it on repeat on iTunes for hours, days, weeks, sometimes even months, until the songs are permanently ingrained in my mind,…
Patience has never been my strong suit. I don’t like waiting for things, especially things I’m really excited for. When I first began listening to Sufjan Stevens, I was under the impression that the banjo-wielding, singer/songwriter would be releasing an album about each of the…
I’ve recently decided to re-read The Hunger Games trilogy, which, in turn, has given me the desire to re-listen to The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 And Beyond soundtrack.
I’m not going to lie to you. When I first found out that Sufjan Stevens’ new album, The Age of Adz, had a 25-minute song at the end of the disc, I was wary. Not because I didn’t think all 25-minutes would be awesome (because…
Whenever I think back on the Fall of 2009, I hear the soundtrack of Oren Lavie’s album, The Opposite Side of the Sea playing the background. This is likely because it was the music I listened to most at the time; the 10 track disc…
Count yourself lucky if you’ve somehow escaped the Twilight phenomenon. It seems a story about a human girl falling in love with a 107-year-old vampire would only be appealing to a select group of people; however, Twilight has become one of the biggest things to…
“Music is a weird and cosmic thing, its own strange religion for nonbelievers, and what a joy it is to make, in any form”- Fleet Foxes I feel like last fall was my time of interesting musical discovery. I got into a lot of bands…
It was about a year ago that I first starting listening to MGMT (pronounced as it’s written, though the band was once named The Management). A friend of mine recommended them to me, and I bought their second studio album, Oracular Spectacular.
I’ll admit that I’m pretty aversive to listening to any band that is associated with the word “emo”. First of all, I don’t understand how “emotional” can become a genre of music…isn’t all music emotional in some sense? And even worse, I don’t understand how…