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Review: The 1975 – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Ryan Gardner

After teasing “June 1st” for months in early 2015, The 1975 began posting cryptic images with text such as, “Pay not attention babe — it’s all pretend. Part of an act!!” and “Be Young and Shut Up.” Following a very brief disappearance from social media – prompting break up rumors – the band promptly returned on the afternoon of June 1st with a new pink album cover and revamped aesthetic. Gone was the expected black-and-white personality we had all welcomed from The 1975, welcomed was a splash of color – pink. Pink photos emerged, a pink album cover that mimicked that of 2013’s self-titled album, and pink attire.

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Albums in Stores – April 8th, 2016

Jason Tate

Well, that week went by too damn fast. Friday again? Already? This week’s releases are headlined by Deftones, Frightened Rabbit, M83, and Lights. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week and feel free to jump over to our forums to talk about what you picked up, what you think, and if we missed anything! Hope everyone had a great week and has something fun or relaxing planned for the weekend.

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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Is Out — Watch It With BB-8

Jason Tate

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available on Blu-ray and digital download. Also, if you have one of those Sphero BB-8 toys, it’ll watch and react to the the movie with you.

Your new and improved BB-8 can actually “watch” the film with you and react to everything that happens. I’m sure he’ll have a thing or two to say when the onscreen BB-8 gets tossed around the Millennium Falcon in Rey’s first flight.

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Review: Weezer – Weezer (The White Album)

Weezer - The White Album
Aaron Mook

This is not Pinkerton.

Now that we have that out of the way, let’s examine where this 10th LP (fourth self-titled) fits within The Curious Case of Weezer.

To many, Weezer are hacks; they’re notorious for “selling out” (whatever that means), a band who’s switched not only styles but a frontman who famously experimented with hundreds of songwriting methods just to reach the heights of the band’s classic debut, Weezer (The Blue Album). But it’s what’s happened between the time of The Blue Album and now that makes the band (and their enigmatic frontman, Rivers Cuomo) so endearing. There was critical success followed by critical failure; addiction followed by isolation, all in the name of goofy songs like “Hash Pipe” and “Island in the Sun.” There was celibacy, meditation, marriage, divorce, a Lil Wayne feature, and a “return to form” all in the past two decades.

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