Ask any music lover if they’re a fan of MGMT and you’re likely to be responded with, “I liked their first album,” accompanied by a shrug of slight indifference. The band’s 2007 major label debut, Oracular Spectacular, is one of those albums that’s “all killer, no filler” but 2010’s Congratulations is nearly the musical definition of a “sophomore slump”. MGMT has a chance to reclaim its former glory when its third LP is released... [Keep Reading]

Lacking money but desiring an escape from their everyday lives, three young women played by Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine rob a small town chicken restaurant to fund a spring break trip to Florida. This inciting incident is shot quite effectively; we see the action from inside the getaway car that circles the restaurant while two of the women carry out the dirty work. The audience is given glimpses through windows of the savagery of the first-time criminals, and it’s... [Keep Reading]

 It’s been a somewhat tumultuous fall from the top for New York-based band The Strokes since they broke through in a major way with their 2001 debut, Is This It. That album was so big and so good that perhaps expectations for their follow-up, 2003’s Room on Fire, were just unreasonably high; despite what its mediocre public reception would suggest, that album’s actually fairly decent. 2006’s First Impressions of Earth has some good tracks, but the band took a half-... [Keep Reading]

 There sadly aren’t many Canadian music festivals whose names get mentioned in the same breath as the big boys like Coachella, Sasquatch and Lollapalooza. However, the one name that seems to be consistently gaining more attention with each passing year is Montreal’s Osheaga – a three-day outdoor festival taking place this August 2nd – 4th. What started in 2006 as a two-day event featuring only a handful of recognizable names has transformed into a full-weekend major... [Keep Reading]