Reviews

Sunspot Productions: The Morning After

Uncompromising style and individuality, The Morning After by Sunspot Productions is a hip hop album that exudes much mood and talent. Stop, Breathe by Runna, C.Luk, and J-Dub opens the album with potent rapping and clean sexy vocals. Right Hook's Too Long follows up with an experimental fusion of oriental strings and hiphop beat that's really ear-catching.

Barackula

Blow your minds with Barackula directed by Mike Lawson and written by Justin Sherman. As said on its website, this short political horror rock musical is about a young Barack Obama who has to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990. Obama finds that he must convince the vampire society that opposing political philosophies can coexist or else the society may transform Obama to the dark side.

Diamond Youth: Don’t Lose Your Cool

A remnant from the bygone era of 90s alternative pop rock, Diamond Youth would've have stood comfortably alongside bands like Jimmy Eat World. Don't Lose Your Cool rolls in with a bunch of catchy indie alternative tracks that resemble an awesome college radio playlist. You'd never guess it from their current sound but the members of the Baltimore crew came from hardcore bands, Trapped Under Ice and Down To Nothing. They're currently making waves with their brand of quieter yet catchy sound with this compilation.

Tribes Ascend

Tribes Ascend is one of the most popular free to play multiplayer games. Published by Hi-Rez Studios, it has earned a reputation for being one of the most difficult and fastest first person shooters today. The graphics are superb, and the sound really makes you feel like you’re in a battlefield. The movement system allows good players to rise above the others. This prevents the game from degenerating into a chaotic free-for-all.

His Statue Falls: Collisions Remixed

His Statue Falls is a unique band in that they combine various genres to weed out their own characteristic sound. Mixing techno, screamo, pop and breakdowns; the German group dubbed their sound as "techcore." Music catches on fast and soon they were playing at more than 150 shows and other groups started to create a similar sound. Not to be deterred, the band pushed forward and continue to mold their music according to their taste. Collisions Remixed is based off their debut record and contains a spin off of some of their best tracks from the album.

Frankie Rulez!!!

In just about five minutes, watch Frankie the space alien as he takes over the universe by claiming property over planets one by one. Written and directed by San Charoenchai, this short film has already taken over the animation landscape as it won three Best Film awards this year and numerous selections in various film festivals.

Taryn Leia Prescott: The Micah Pact EP

Simple yet captivating. That's one sentence that would best describe Taryn Leia Precott's sound. Her soulful voice is what captures the listeners attention while her skillful and melodic music creates a beautiful playground for her lyrics. The Micah Pact is a 7-track EP that the artist wrote over a period of years. It's a collection of tracks that expresses the artists' reaction as she grapples"with suffering, both my own and others’. Divorce, fatherlessness, loneliness, broken families, disease, poverty, untimely death...." The album is an answer of sorts and a way of understanding and coping as well.

Google Goggles

The future belong to smartphones and the quality of apps that are pouring in will punch-us-in-the-face really hard. This is is exactly what Google Goggles is trying to explain to its Android and iPhone users. Developed by Google, the creator of Android, Google Goggles oozes out performance, quality, clutter-free UI and productivity. The app helps its users in obtaining the most in-depth information about a subject by simply taking its picture.