What I’m Watching: (500) Days of Summer

OK, I know I’m about a year late to the party on this one, but I just watched this movie for the first time last night. I had heard from any number of sources that this was a great movie, but circumstance only allowed me the chance to see it now. Most of the things [...]

Foo Fighters Announce First 2011 Tour Dates, Tease New Album

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl went on BBC’s Radio 1 to give fans and listeners an update on the band’s in-progress album and to announce their first tour dates of 2011.

Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown Review

Come Around Sundown might be Kings of Leon’s fifth studio album, but with all the pressure and anticipation surrounding the follow-up to the smash hit Only by the Night, it might as well have been the band’s second. KoL were faced with a lot of the same choices that a breakout band sees right after [...]

VLM’s First Film Review: How to Train Your Dragon

You might have noticed a lack of blogging over the last few weeks. Yes, I’m still interested in continuing blogging for the foreseeable future, but over the last few weeks I’ve been doing less listening and more viewing. For better and for worse, I’ve been watching more film and television and not doing as much [...]

Setlist: Jimmy Eat World at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA 10/11/2010

So for the last week I’ve been taking a bit of a hiatus from blogging while I take care of a few other things, but I’m back tonight with a look at what might be the best concert I’ve been to this year. Last night Jimmy Eat World rolled into Philadelphia in support of their [...]

Kanye West to share his Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Nov.22nd

Earlier today Kanye West announced some of the details of his fifth studio album on his Twitter, and it seemed like the entire music world came to a hush long enough to hear what he had to say. The details of the album are listed below: The album is called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [...]

Moment of Zen: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross go Classical

So if you missed it earlier this week, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score to The Social Network is now available. I haven’t reviewed it yet because I’m holding out hope that I’ll get to see the film this weekend, at which point I’ll tether my soundtrack review to a review of the film. But [...]