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For all their talent and rigorous training, people in marching bands still get stuck with the reputation of being the “nerdy kids” in school....
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Get ready for the action-packed comedy critics are calling “outrageous, original, and wildly entertaining” (Mike Manalo, Nerds of Color) as NOVOCAINE is now available...
Following enormous demand for four Halloween-time performances in L.A., film and music icon John Carpenter will play a single night at the Knockdown Center...
In 1964, one year before A Charlie Brown Christmas brought cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS® to TV screens across America, the Vince Guaraldi Trio...
For all their talent and rigorous training, people in marching bands still get stuck with the reputation of being the “nerdy kids” in school....
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally supposed to run before the holidays, but I screwed up. Fortunately, it’s a damned good piece and since...
As we approach 20 years of this here 21st century, I keep thinking about how rapidly things move, how events and news seem both...
Get’cha head in the game, Disney fans. There’s a must-have, limited-edition vinyl record release from Walt Disney Records now available for a limited time....
The Swedish rock group ABBA launched in 1972 consisting of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. With ten years, ABBA (named...
Remember when Saturday morning television was your domain, and yours alone? When tattoos came from bubble gum packs, Slurpees came in superhero cups, and...
Since the post-Memorial Day weekend is considered a slump time when Hollywood movie studios typically opt not to release anything major into theaters, I...
Hail, hail: black nerd icon Janelle Monáe’s new album of sound and vision, Dirty Computer, is out. It’s dope, and different. It’s the freest...
When “Record Store Day” started in 2008, it was merely a beacon of awareness for independent record stores. Keep in mind, this was two...
INTRODUCTION Welcome once again to our annual Holiday Gift Guide! 2017 has been a rough year as we’ve seen struggles across the United States...
It’s a Saturday in December, and the snow is falling as I drive down I-95 in a U-Haul truck. The day grows colder, the...
Friday morning will see millions of shoppers flooding Big Box stores hoping to save a few dollars and fight bargain-hunting pugilists. Thankfully, that’s no...
Groovy is the new…well… groovy book from TwoMorrows about hip and psychedelic pop culture in the flower power era of the late ‘60s and...
Colors, the new album from Beck, shouldn’t work. On first listen it doesn’t, especially if you’re a fan of the artist, or just casually...
[youtube id=”2_qCdhqc3Qc”] If you’re a Disney fan like me, you know that Disneyland Records has released a number of soundtracks to their attractions over...
Because Halloween is every day, I’m always on the look out for spooky, melancholy, or just plain crazy tunes to add to my ULTIMATE...
Don’t Look Now is Nicholas Roeg’s (ROAG) 1973 thriller set around a couple’s grief over the death of their daughter. The majority of the...
Produced by Ira Steven Behr, Greg Gilreath, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Adam Hendricks, Logan Sparks, Drago Sumonja Richard Kahan, John H. Lang, Written by Logan...
Nostalgia can be fickle. It only takes a slight shift in age difference, or strictly regional relevance to make any piece of your nostalgiac...
Although it’s been almost thirty years since Jem and the Holograms‘ animated series ended, IDW Publishing resurrected the truly outrageous band in a new...
There are many things that Steven Universe fans love about the animated series: the anime style, the jokes, the lore, the cosplay appeal, its...
Produced By Jonathan Willbanks, Robert Kraft, Trevor Thompson, Nate Gold, Kenny Holmes, Crystal Chavarria Written and Directed by Matt Schrader Featuring Hans Zimmer, James...
Whether its the retro-cool factor or collector’s choice, you can’t deny the shelf-worthy appeal of physical music recordings. True audiophiles and die-hard music geeks...
There are many nerd types out there and I bet that most of them are not viewed as nerds by the vast majority of...