Photo: Ashley S. Wright After Wednesday night’s sold out Beach House show, we weren’t quite sure what to expect of the Mercy Lounge crowd when a couple more bloggy buzz bands stopped into town the very next night. Well, firstly, apparently The Spin doesn’t know that much about what constitutes “bloggy” or “buzz” these days. [...]

Local arena-rockers Paramore played their song “Brick by Boring Brick” on Fallon last night, and the Internet provides the video proof above. I have no idea what this song is about, but I think the castle represents childhood and innocence, or maybe it’s a literal castle surrounded by a moat filled with dragon tears. Like [...]

D. Ricky Rodriguez Apple Ghraib Attention Internet users! Raise your hand if you like Lala — you know, the user-friendly online music store that allows you to stream more than 8 million songs and share playlists and stuff. Now, take that same hand and smack yourself across the face as hard as you can. Does [...]

During his days as a TSU theater student, and later in various plays and films, authenticity in writing and performance was Reegus Flenory’s primary goal. Now, as writer/director of the new film Generational Curses, Part 1 — which will be screened four times Saturday at Scarritt-Bennett Center — he’s continued that quest. Only this time, [...]

Our bad! Whilst thumbing through the shimmering pages of this week’s glossy, you might find yourself in the film section. And whilst in the film section, you might find yourself reading Jason Shawhan’s sharply written Short Take on the classic 1946 Hitchcock espionage flick Notorious (playing May 1-2 at The Belcourt). As awesome as it [...]