My children, especially my four year old, watches more television than I’d like him to. But as parents, we know A) how hard it is to keep them away from the TV – especially when they know how to work the remote and unlock the safety lock. That said, I take comfort in knowing –

I never took a pill in Ibiza. I also know, for sure, Avicii doesn’t know who I am and if he did, he wouldn’t think I’m cool. Chances are HONNE, a dynamic duo out of London, wouldn’t either. Self-deprecation aside, few are as cool as Andrew Clutterbuck and James Hatcher. The pair recently released their

Ramona Flowers is a beloved, red-hot chick in the cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs The World. The Bristol UK band that named themselves after the character, however, have little to do with her. I’ll take that back. Blending contemporary anthem rock with a slice of the 80s synth, the band truly kick some ass. The

Transparent, the groundbreaking series from Amazon Prime, is up for eight Emmys this weekend for its spectacular second season, and if episode one of season three is any indication, it’ll likely net more next year. But awards are awards and while it’s nice for the recognition, the material and performances (and the weight of both)

It’d be cool to see Joan Wasser try and put together a resume in 12-point Times New Roman font. Anyone who’d receive this document that is totally not needed would drop their jaws looking over a breakdown of her decade-plus work. Deeply meaningful albums. Check. Awe–inspiring collaborations that range from Lou Reed to Dave Gahan?

I never took a pill in Ibiza. I also know, for sure, Avicii doesn’t know who I am and if he did, he wouldn’t think I’m cool. Chances are HONNE, a dynamic duo out of London, wouldn’t either. Self-deprecation aside, few are as cool as Andrew Clutterbuck and James Hatcher. The pair recently released their

If you were a child of the 1980s, you truly can grasp just how big Michael Jackson was. He was our decade. He was our Elvis. A white glove. A dance move. A chimp sidekick. Everything he did made news. Heck, a Pepsi commercial was hyped like a Marvel blockbuster. He wasn’t just the king

It seemed fitting that the room The Get Right Band filmed their A-Sides session in – a studio at the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains, NY – featured a giant green wall. Staring at the wall, I imaged using it as a green screen and superimposing Frankie Avalon movies or a toking Bob

Don’t unleash your “back to school” commercials and sales at me in July, people. Don’t tell me a pumpkin spice latte is available until I at least need long pants to go outside. Let August be August. “Dog days of summer” means so little to me. It’s meant as such an awful thing but in

Years from now historians and pundits will look back at the 2016 presidential election, and likely let out a collective “what the what?” Heck, they’re all doing it now. This whole race from the very beginning has been a cluster you know what, and while it’s made headlines (for all the wrong reasons), it really

With “Somebody to Shove,” “Black Gold,” and especially “Runaway Train,” Soul Asylum are arguably best known for their 3x Platinum Grave Dancer’s Union. To associate this band off their 1992 breakthrough alone would be doing them a great injustice. Listen to the albums that came before it, and after it – especially their underappreciated follow-up

It seems like the word “buzz” gets name-dropped more times than “fresh” did in the ’80s. The difference is “fresh” will always be cool. I’ll still refer to something as “fresh” just as The Beasties did back in the day, and buzz will always be just an empty word tossed around unless the new artist

Goonies never say die, and there’s no quit in Miesa. The talented R&B singer is continually honing her craft – even taking voice lessons today despite the fact her vocals could melt butter. The 24-year-old budding pop star is sort of bringing R&B back into the forefront – though if you’re smart and you’re “in

Some say love, in general anyway, a river that drowns the tender reed. I have no idea what that means, but I love that song “The Rose” so here we are. Anyway, if love is a river than what exactly is hard love? And what exactly is hard love when it’s presented in this fashion:

They say when you have kids the days are long but the years are short. That’s so true. My sons are respectively four-and-a-half and one-and-a-half, and it all happened in a staring-into-a-strobe-light blink. Years before I had kids, people told me to hang onto every moment. “Soon they’ll be asking for the keys to car,”

This summer, decades are colliding. The “whoa whoa whoa-oh-oh whoa-whoa whoa-oh-oh” is meeting “Chickity China the Chinese chicken” and shouting “oho Enola gay.” Yep, 1980s synth icon Howard Jones is on the road with ’90’s standouts Barenaked Ladies and ’80s stars OMD. That said, let’s focus on Mr. Jones, who revolutionized synth music in the