Album Review: Rick Ross - Black Market
By Van Williams, Contributor [Maybach/Warner Bros., 2015] Rating: 3/5 Key Tracks: “Free Enterprise,” “Ghostwriter,” “Can’t Say No” Rick...
Preview: Frame and Mantle, Normal State, Space Buns Forever, Gabbi Thacker / Dec. 5 / The RBG
By: Van Williams, Contributor The RBG / Sat., Dec. 5, 2015 Finals week, a rumor, a myth, a twilight zone of sorts. Whatever it has proved...
Album Review: The Max Levine Ensemble - Backlash, Baby
By Van Williams, Contributor [Lame-O; 2015] Rating: 4/5 Key Tracks: “Backlash, Baby,” “Panoptic Vision,” “Going Home (Parts 1 & 2)” Pop...
Album Review: Malfunction - Fear of Failure
By Van Williams, Contributor [Bridge Nine; 2015] Rating: 4/5 Key Tracks: “Drain,” “Drift,” “Release” There was a time not so long ago in...
Preview: Run Forever, Windowbox, Billy Dreamin’, Julian, Olivia Cobb / Nov. 22 / The RBG
By Van Williams, Contributor The Hardcore House of Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Sun., Nov. 22, 2015 Ready to go home for the holidays? Some are,...
Album Review: Kode9 - Nothing
By Van Williams, Contributor [Hyperdub; 2015] Rating: 2.5/5 Key Tracks: “Third Ear Transmission,” “Zero Worked” There are so many amazing...
Movie Review: Experimenter
By Van Williams, Contributor [Magnolia Pictures; 2015] Rating: 4.5/5 When Experimenter ended, there was no applause; the audience simply...
Album Review: Drive-By Truckers - It's Great To Be Alive
By Van Williams, Contributor [ATO; 2015] Rating: 2/5 Key Tracks: “Women Without Whiskey,” “Runaway Train” Drive-By Truckers have been...
Album Review: Ellie Goulding - Delirium
By Van Williams, Contributor [Polydor; 2015] Rating: 3/5 Key Tracks: “Keep On Dancin’,” “On My Mind,” “Lost & Found” Ellie Goulding first...
Preview: Pinegrove, Double Winter, bbigpigg, Window Box / November 5 / Smiling Skull
By Van Williams, Contributor The Smiling Skull / Thursday, November 5th, 2015 Halloween and the terror that is reigns down on Athens, but...