Beach Slang has never been a band to pull punches. On their sophomore full-length album, “A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings,” these Philly-based punk-rockers tackle the heady experience of adolescence with all the blistering, bare-knuckled zeal the album title suggests.
“MacGyver” (2016) isn’t really “MacGyver” (1985). The MacGyver of 1985 wore jeans and tennis shoes, never used a gun and occasionally stole a kiss from the damsel in distress.
Jam packed with nearly every cliché in the genre, “The Hollars” fails to distinguish itself from its peers.
“Scream Queens” is back with a bizarre premise, swapping last year’s college campus for a haunted hospital in which none of the employees seem qualified.
Any fan of Devendra Banhart knows that conventional rules of music don’t apply to his work — even the flexible, ever-changing rules of indie rock.
There is an audience for a show like “This is Us.” They’re the type who cry during Nicholas Sparks movies. Honestly, they’re probably buying premiere tickets in advance for every single Nicholas Sparks movie.
Within the first 10 seconds of “The Good Place,” main character Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) reads this message: “Welcome! Everything is fine.” It’s a message that rings incredibly true to the quality of the show itself.
Mac Miller has truly come a long way. After bursting onto the hip-hop scene in 2011, the rapper has since distanced himself from his debut album, opting instead for deeper introspection and more experimentation.
In 1989, the Iranian government shocked the world by issuing a fatwa ordering the execution of British-Indian author Salman Rushdie.
It was a perfect summer night in Downtown Charlottesville when Rayland Baxter took the stage at the Sprint Pavilion to open for The Lumineers.
Enter “Wild World,” the newest release from the group, which picks up right where “Bad Blood” left things three years ago.
Alternative rock band Grouplove, famous for its 2011 hit “Tongue Tied,” recently dropped the album “Big Mess,” a compilation of 11 tracks about love, loss and pursuing the true meaning of life.
Since their last recording, the group has traded their humble beginnings in Seattle for a Warner Bros.
The second season offers the same suspense and intensity fans loved in the first season, but on a whole new level.
Getting out of the hood, rising above socio-economic struggles, living without boundaries: The rap dream of the post Public Enemy era is still going strong.
Athens, Ga., has a heavy-hitting lineup of bands to boast of from R.E.M. to the B-52’s. But one of the most unique bands is of Montreal, the glam-rock psychedelic brainchild of frontman Kevin Barnes.
“Intern” is the most misleading single Angel Olsen could have dropped.
Many in attendance turned out specifically for the burgeoning opening act, but the venue lost few if any concertgoers once Major and the Monbacks took the stage.
Rarely would so many people make the trip to the Downtown Mall on a Sunday night just to see a concert, but with Flume in town it seemed necessary.
Beach Baby's sound fits comfortably under the label modern indie, and “No Mind No Money” does not provide much by way of originality.
