Okay, okay, we’re not giving you REAL sex…
WAIT! COME BACK! You will be getting something for free!
The Violet Lights are kicking off a 45-city North American tour come January 25th, and graciously decided to share the titular song from their debut EP. The name? You guessed it…SEX & SOUND.
Am I the only one who feels like she’s staring into my soul?
Mix a little Brit-pop, a little indie-pop and a tiny dose of NYC garage rock, and you have this Wisconsin-grown, LA-processed band. They made their way West with no money or plans–just a simple blog to tell the tale.
SEX & SOUND was recorded at the legendary Hollywood studio Sunset Sound, and was both self-funded and self-produced.
For more information on The Violet Lights, you can check out their site, their Facebook, or their Twitter.
Coldplay's fifth album Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay is one of those band where you either love them or you hate them. Personally I’ve expressed both ends of the spectrum throughout their career. They have what I call the “Coldplay Syndrome” where if you listen to them for too long you end up hating their music.
Their first two albums they released Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head I really enjoyed. Meanwhile their third album X & Y I really didn’t like all that much and I thought that their fourth album Viva La Vida was decent but nothing particularly special. Then I found under my Christmas tree a copy of the latest Coldplay album which has swung me back to liking the band again after two sub-par albums. Let’s dive in and check out Mylo Xyloto
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Tagged alternative, Chris Martin, Coldplay, Electronic, Mylo Xyloto, New Album, Parachutes, Radiohead, rock, Rush of Blood To The Head, Viva La Vida, X&Y
Something Fierce Volume I
Marian Call. If you haven’t at least heard the name in passing then you haven’t been following geek culture, but don’t worry I’m here to help you out. “Something Fierce.” If you are a fan of music, you’ll want this album. Two years in the making, this album was released this past October to the delight of many long time and new fans alike. Was the two years used wisely? I’ll spare you the suspense and answer with a definitive ‘Yes.’
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I love X-23. She’s my second favorite X-Woman, and probably one of my favorite X-men, period. She kicks butt and has the right amount of social ineptitude that I like in my characters. When I heard that she was getting her own on-going series, boy howdy, was I ecstatic! The series had to get past that whole Wolverine goes to Hell thing for me to really start enjoying the series. I loved my X when she was part of the team in X-Force, so having her team up with Gambit (who’s super cool in this series), Jubilee and Wolverine, and now the Future Foundation, has been a delight. Issue #17 continues with the delightfulness; with the pretty chill (I use this term lightly) part of “Misadventures in Babysitting.”
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I remember catching a brief glimpse of Batwing on the cover of Batman Incorporated #6 (Batwing made his first appearance in issue #5), thinking, “What a nifty and rather practical costume this Batperson has!” and nothing else, until I was going through the covers for the #1’s of the DC Reboot…and saw that same nifty costume on the cover of the oddly named new series, Batwing.
I didn’t quite understand why anyone would choose the moniker “Batwing” in the first place, but having a Batman-type superhero in Africa seemed like a promising new series.
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KABOOM! Album Cover
The Chicago based chiptune rock band, I Fight Dragons, is back and better than ever with the release of their first full length album KABOOM! Having released several EP’s such as Cool Is Just A Number and Welcome to the Breakdown, IFD has gained a very popular fan base and is now exploding forth with their first album.
I know, as a fan, I was hoping that some of the old songs would be on the new album so that newcomers to the band would be able to hear former fan favorites as well as the new songs. This album does not disappoint by adding in old tracks such as With You and the ever popular Don’t You. And the new songs are so awesome it literally makes me want to go fight dragons. But enough preface, it’s review time.
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Love II Album Cover
Since their creation in 2005, Angels and Airwaves has been on the rise on the alternative rock circuit. The band was created by Blink-182 guitarist Tom Delonge and has been defined as “an art project” instead of a band because of their experimental sounds and the strong mediums used in songs. They have released four albums, We Don’t Need To Whisper, I-Empire, Love, and their newest release Love II which was released on November 1, 2011.
Now when Angels and Airwaves first came out I kind of refused to listen to them because I was still heartbroken about Blink breaking up. But after a while I gave them a listen. To be honest Angels and Airwaves is not my favorite style of music but after listening to one of their newest songs, I thought I’d give the new album a try form an open perspective. So here we go. Continue reading →
As we all know that earlier this year DC Comics announced that they would be rebooting 52 of their titles, bringing forth new stories and story lines for new and old characters in the DC Universe. Now a lot of people were unhappy about the reboot but come September loads of people went out and bought the first issues of the New 52. But how were the issues?
Now I know that we here at DestroyTheCyb.org! have put out a few reviews of the new 52 but not all of them. I apologize personally for not doing the some that I wanted but I’m going to make up for that now. I’m going to tell you my thoughts on all the DC #1′s that I read. I will keep quick and concise so that you’re not reading for forever.
Let’s dive in, shall we?
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Tagged action comics, batman, batman and robin, Blue Beetle, catwoman, Detective Comics, flash, francis manapul, Green Arrow, green lantern, Green Lantern Corps, greg capullo, Hawkman, jason todd, jeime reyes, judd winnick, justice league, lex luthor, new guardians, Nightwing, red hood and the outlaws, red lanterns, Scott Snyder, super girl, superboy, superman, Teen Titans, the savage hawkman, Tony S. Daniel
In my mind there are three types of movies. The first two categories are pretty easy to categories there are good movies and there are bad movies. From time to time however there’s a movie that fits into a group of you not loving it or hating it. In a weird way there are elements of it that you really like, but at the same time there are elements of the movie that frustrate you or you straight up don’t understand. For me Drive is a clear-cut example of that third group. As I’ll get into later that are certain stylistic choices and techniques that I liked, and at the same time there are some elements of the plot and the characterization I didn’t particularly agree with.
One thing is I know for sure is that Drive is the most unique film I’ve seen and an even harder film to review. I’ll do my best to avoid spoilers in this review but just to be warned there may be some mild spoilers ahead!
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As everybody with a television or internet is probably aware, The Thing is now in theatres vying for your Halloween scare dollars. While there is a lot of clamoring going on around the internet about what this film is, it is not a remake or a reboot of the 1982 film of the same name but a prequel. However, this article is not concerned as much about this new film as it is about the original 1982 cult classic by the Master of Horror, John Carpenter and how I have been influenced by it not only as a filmmaker, but as a writer. You see, while to some this was just a simple gore-fest that featured Kurt Russell with a rocking beard, but to me this film meant a whole lot more. It represented a time in my life when I had a life-changing experience, one I did not even realize I had until a few weeks ago.
I can distinctly remember the first time I saw the film. This is relevant because I can barely remember when i see a movie for the first time, at least not this clearly. I was fourteen years old (holy shit I’m old), and it was in the waning months of summer 2002, and the Sci-Fi Channel (before all of this SyFy nonsense took place) was airing the film to help promote the release of the The Thing video game. My dad had always told me that I would enjoy that movie, so when he found out that it was going to be on television he and I sat down and watched it together. About three hours later, my mind was blown away by the intensity of the film. Never before had I seen a horror film that I not only thoroughly enjoyed being terrified by, but I had never seen a horror film that operated on such a slow burn like The Thing did. It took the time to create an environment of dread, where you never knew whether or not the person standing next to you was the person they said they were, of just one of those horrible things. It clicked with me on an entirely new level that few films have rarely been able to achieve with me, and I have only experienced that film nirvana only twice since (the first Saw and Brick).
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Tagged E.T. sucks, film, Horror, Inspiration, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Leigh Whannell, R.J. MacReady, Retrospective, Science Fiction, the thing, Universal Pictures, Who Goes There?, Writing
