B- Earlier this month, I traveled with my wife’s family up to Colorado to see a concert at the legendary Red Rocks amphitheater. They were there for Andy Frasco and the U.N., an amusing enough band that knows how to put on a highly entertaining live performance, even if their songwriting is nothing to write…
9.75 Taking major inspiration from the classic JRPGs of old, German developer Mattias Linda has crafted a modern classic of his own that manages to take the best pieces of some of the greatest games of all time and combines them with some fresh ideas that make Chained Echoes an experience for the ages. First…
6.75 Super Mario Kart stands as a fascinating history lesson as the launching point for an entire subgenre of video games, and perhaps Mario’s single most successful series in the modern era of games. However, as a standalone game, particularly in 2024, it is little more than a foundation and proof of concept of the…
S By the time Guns N’ Roses arrived at the final tracklist for their landmark debut LP Appetite for Destruction, it already sounded like a best of compilation. The group had already recorded a number of tracks that would later appear across the Use Your Illusion albums, but narrowed its focus to the best of…
B- It may be hard to imagine now, but in 1956, Elvis Presley’s debut album was the most critical Rock n’ Roll release in history. It was the first rock record to sell 1 million copies and was a foundational piece of the launch of music’s most lauded cover artist to superstardom. The album was…
S Epic, unadulterated brilliance. From the opening piano hit on “Thunder Road,” to Clarence Clemons’ stratospheric sax solo at the apex of “Jungleland,” Born to Run is 39 minutes of musical brilliance from the greatest songwriter to ever live backed by the best collection of musicians to hit the Jersey circuit. In fact, the album…
Unpredictable, divisive brilliance It’s a dank, misty morning in Seattle. Ellie is being hunted. As she drops into an abandoned hardware store, she looks through a window in a scripted moment that reveals one of The Last of Us Part II’s new enemies: attack dogs. As the dog’s WLF handlers discuss the sudden, brutal deaths…
A new announcement from 2K games on Thursday that NBA 2K21 will cost $69.99 on next-gen hardware has sent the industry into a swirling frenzy of curiosity and conjecture that this price may become standard for next-gen hardware going forward. The announcement from 2K came as part of a series of announcements that also included…
As far as office space on the A&M-Commerce campus goes, Noah Nelson can’t complain. As the Director of Media Relations for the university, Nelson works out of his own spacious office in the President’s area in the McDowell Building. His work often puts him in direct correspondence with President Jones, and it also places him…
**** From the moment Lover’s lead single “ME!” featuring the nails-on-chalkboard grating voice of Brendon Urie operating as a depressing foil to Taylor Swift’s infectiously endearing charm, I’ve been skeptical of her latest project. To pull such a 180 from the polarizing yet bold reputation seemed like an overly calculated move that didn’t bode well,…
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