Win Tickets: Typhoon at the Rickshaw – September 9, 2013

Typhoon – one of the most talked about new bands – is proud to touring on the release of their new LP White Lighter. Released on August 20th on Roll Call Records, White Lighter is the follow up to the band’s acclaimed EP A New Kind Of House that caught the attention of countless music […]

My Letter to Selah Sue

I’m not much of a club person. I don’t enjoy loud music when I’m at a bar. Clubs are for dancing. And, to be honest, when the lights dim and the music blares, I don’t enjoy bustin’ a move. The truth is, I can’t dance very well. My attempts always come off as just another […]

Preview: Debora L. Spar – Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

It doesn’t take a feminist to wonder why fifty years after the Equal Pay Act – fifty years after Betty Frieden’s The Feminine Mystique – women are still faced with endless double-standards in both the public and private domains. Debora L. Spar’s wonder years, the 1970s, were an optimistic time: the gender war in America was supposedly […]

Dan Vapid & The Cheats Treat Fans to a Little Pop-Punk Party

It’s hard to let go of the music that shaped your teenage years. At that age, songs mean more than just mere chords and lyrics; a song’s depth can talk to you directly giving understanding to all insecurities of adolescence. Some of the music from your teenage years lives on and makes pretty good sense […]