I get pretty excited for new Sage albums. Ever since I saw him destroy Coachella with an amazing set in ‘04 I’ve been a loyal fan. When I had the CD in my hand and I was walking out to the car I actually chanted his name to the tune of Grieg’s famous symphony. Embarrassing, I know! It’s a beautiful day so I can’t wait to cruise and listen to this disc. First things first, I hit up a coffee shop to grab an americano as well as a cinnamon bun (in fact I buy a tray of 6…homies gotta eat too) as I never review rap albums on an empty stomach. The first track “little Houdini” hits and it’s a great outlaw tale about a man breaking out of jail to see his dying mother. The beat is very interesting and Sage rides it hard, switching up between soft-spoken and hard-nosed delivery so easily. In fact, all the beats on this album are “rock-based” in one way or another and most are great. Sage has a good feel for how to rap over a live band. Even though the style of the songs switch with every track, he effortlessly finds the flow needed to capture the emotion of the beat. A couple of the beats are kinda bland and it’s Sage that holds them together, big time. Continue Reading…
I never had any intention to pick this up when I original heard about, but then I saw that it was drawn by Mike Allred. If you don’t know who Mike Allred is, shame on you.
izombie is the story of Gwen, a gravedigger with a few interesting twists, in a town with a good couple of turns. Her best friend is a 60’s mod ghost, a were-terrier has a massive crush on her, and vampires run a paintball course. Oh.. and Gwen herself is a zombie. She needs to feed on a human once a month not to turn into a mindless zombie, but it does come with a price, after eating the brain of the recently deceased, she is entrusted with helping out the person achieve a peaceful slumber after death.
I am assuming it is different for each brain, we aren’t told but in issue 1, she must get vengeance for a wrongful death.
Yeah, this book is messed up, but it is written in such a way that it feels pretty organic and of course, having Allred on art helps out so damn much. He could draw poop throwing poop at other poop and I would still enjoy it as much. Continue Reading…
When it comes to X-Men, I am probably the last person who would want to talk to about them. Yes, I can name most, if not all of the X-men Characters, but if you want to know about the continuity and the ins/outs of relationships of the characters, I may kill you. Serious.
XMF #23 is the second to final issue of this run (they are doing volumes, Vol 2 starts in June) and not a single answer gets answered, but thankfully no new questions are raised as the X-Men conclude their confrontation with the Neo-Sentinels, The Consortium, and try to stop the Plaque -X Cannon that would wipe out every mutant on Earth.
Some rather big things happen in the issue, as you can probably tell from the cover image. Everyone’s favourite blue-furred mutant genius, sadly, dies. I still think there could have been someway to have save him, Jean Grey could have put a TK shield around and protect, but he gave himself up for the greater good of mutant kind.
Also, a shocker of shockers, Mister Metal Pants Tony Stark, dies as well. I think Continue Reading…
Finally, a reason to get an iPad! ShinyTweet and Tweetdeck on iPad both look pretty slick. I may be a bit biased, being that I use Tweetdeck for PC and Mac, but I do think it looks like it uses the iPad screen more efficiently. Lets compare the two.
I’ve listened to this album before so I can’t give it the true “Birds eye Review” treatment. Guess that means I’m gonna do a straight up old-fashioned review. Fortunately, I’ve heard it before and liked it; so I was looking forward to listening more intently. Right now Victoria, BC is a happening place for hip-hop and C.F.C have been playing locally for many years. This is their second full length album (as far as I know??) but I’m too lazy to Wikipedia that shit…sorry guys! I would say that I like this record a lot more than their first. Better beats, better rapping and a concept idea for the album too! The album art alone is hilarious/ridiculous and fits the personality of the band so well. The album starts up with back-to-back instrumentals (which I thought was a great choice) setting the tone for the whole album. The opening beat might actually be my fav on the album, it’s a ridiculously catchy flute-loop. When the lyrics do start, rappers Deep C and Stevie G seem to adapt to the beats with a breezy, laid-back style. Both have an old-school influenced Continue Reading…
Google have released a new video that has their brower, Chrome, squaring off against potatoes, sound and lightning.
There has been some criticism in the Twitisphere about the legitimacy of the clip. If you look closely, Google are clicking the forward button, not search, meaning these could be sites saved to the hard drive. Either way, I’m still impressed.
A new full album collaboration between two artists has arrived (yawn!). This time it’s the front man from The Shins, James Mercer, and leading collaboration expert Danger Mouse. Throughout the 2000’s, I would get extremely excited about anything involving Danger Mouse and his control over the production boards.Yet over the last year or so, there have been so many albums with his tag on it, that I sort of lost track. Alternatively, I’ve never really been excited by anything that The Shins had anything to do with. So when I heard about this collaboration, I really didn’t put too much stock into it. Although with high accolades, I was handed the album by my co-worker. When I started the album, I recognized the first track from the radio. The song is called High Road and has a fairly catchy group sing-along hook mixed with a great beat in the background. Continue Reading…
