If your radio dial in your car is set to 89.9FM, you are probably familiar with an interesting mix of news, culture, and music known as KCRW. Whether it’s the unconventional playlists of music in the morning and evening, the voice of Kajon Cermak trying to soothe the traffic afflicted soul, or the reporting of Steve Chiotakis giving you a...

Macklemore has once again paired up with his right-hand producer Ryan Lewis for their sophomore album, “This Unruly Mess I’ve Made.” The Seattle rapper centralizes on social issues prevalent in 2016 and problems currently affecting the duo. After receiving mixed criticism surrounding their previous album, “The Heist,” the duo appeared to be in a negative light, often being compared to...

The 1975 are back with their sophomore album, “I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It.” The British alternative rock band have produced a welcomed change of pace and perspective from their self-titled debut album, which gained them a huge fan base outside of the UK. The band brings new sounds to...

What is there left for Kanye to do? Depending on how you feel about a few of his albums, he has made somewhere between five and eight classics. He’s had world-beating hit songs and critically acclaimed albums that no one bought. He’s won 21 Grammys, been a universally beloved pop culture figure, and a universally despised one as well.“The Life...

The last superhero movie I saw in theaters was “Man Of Steel.” It was 3 years ago and it was very, very bad. Since then movies have come — like “Ant-Man” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” — that I was sincerely interested in, but I just couldn’t take that step to get to the theater. Maybe I was scared I...

A year has not passed since the birth of film without movies concerning love, death, and war. They’re the universal topics everyone must battle with, and stories about them will be told until the end of storytelling, or time, whichever comes first. War has always seemed the odd outlier in this group though. Every human that will ever live will...

For rap’s first few decades, the rapper’s artistic parallel was the stand-up comedian. The early eras of rap, like comedy, were about one artist and their words. A rapper’s relationship with their beat was a spectrum, varying from artist to artist, much like that of a comic and their audience. The comic’s job is to write funny jokes and put...

The fifth album by the sound-transitioning pop band is undoubtedly a solid salute in the form of a lyrical and overdosed wave goodbye to the wild days of your messy 20s and single life. Lead singer Brendon Urie is comically credited in the CD booklet, "Panic! at the Disco Is: Brendon Urie." It seems to be a mild joke regarding...

The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were unveiled Thursday morning. They are annually the biggest, dumbest, most frustrating exercise in all of cinema, and movie fans everywhere allow their energy to be drained by the results regardless. The Oscars manage to disappoint in the same confusing yet devastatingly transparent ways time and time again. Let’s check in on how...

"When It's Dark Out" by G-EazyG-Eazy is an Oakland rapper who has been regularly putting out mixtapes for almost 10 years now. Considering Gerald Gillum is only 26, this is a relatively impressive feat. Personally, I haven’t been listening to much G-Eazy over those 10 years, but it is clear that a lot of other people have been. In 2012...