Labor Day is upon us, and with it, the end of the Summer tour season. I always love the "Summer Comfort" of seeing bands play sheds and amphitheaters in the out of doors. I know it sucks for the kids who have to go back to school, but hey, I've got no sympathy, because every Sunday night is a school night once you enter the working force, whether it's July or September or February! So that's what you have to look forward to you if you are under the age of 18, kids! On Sunday night of this week, I trekked out to the PNC Bank Arts Center, located in central New Jersey, near the Jersey Shore, but not that Jersey Shore. I went to rock my face off at the UPROAR fest, which I discussed a few columns ago as a tour that fades the Summer into Fall, in a move that I really dig.
The venue is situated along the Garden State Parkway, and the drive in the summer is lush and green, rich with vegetation. It feels healthy and fertile when I drive through the area, of course polluting it with vehicular emissions. That said, I know that next time I head down that way on Read More ...
Gifts From Enola have created an album that finally and perfectly captures the intensity of their live show and expands upon all of their past ideas ten-fold. Or maybe they've simply taken past ideas to their logical extremes, destroyed them, and birthed brand new ideas from their ashes. Either way, the band continues to evolve at an astonishing rate and further pushes their sonic spectrum into an unclassifiable area that is all at once hard to explain, but impossibly easy to listen to. And we don't mean that in the "easy-listening" genre of music sense either. If anything, the band has become more technical and heavier than even the heaviest parts of "From Fathoms" (their critically acclaimed 2009 release), not in a "breakdown-and-beat-you-over-the-head" sort of way, but more in the album's overall sound.
Welcome to your weekly dose of pop world musings. Covering all things pop culture, this week Pop Shots is hitting you with thoughts on everything from what Wyclef did to protest the rejection of his presidential bid in Haiti, to how a German court saw fit to punish a pop singer who was sleeping with people while knowingly infected with HIV, to how Fantasia Barrino dealt with being mentioned on a few gossip blogs, and since it's Pop Shots you know everything is seasoned with a little bit of attitude.
Over the weekend, the remix for "Runaway Love" featuring Kanye West, Raekwon and Justin Bieber reached the internet after a few weeks of on and off promotion. Many of us hope that this teaming up was a joke, a rumor, or simply Kanye running off at the mouth again. I mean, really, history would tell us that oil and water doesn't mix. So who in their right mind believed that Justin and anybody over 18 mixed?
For Irish thrashers Gama Bomb, file-sharing has proved to be an important and recurring topic of discussion.
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