LifeAfterNirvana

Chris returns to the blog with a doozy of a post, offering up a critical analysis of "Thrift Shop", featuring some incredibly well-articulated points. You'll be thinking on this one for a while.

Individualism, Capitalism, and Whiteness: A Rhetorical Examination of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” The biggest song of this last year is a travesty. It manages to further establish the cultural hegemonies of individualism, capitalism, and whiteness through the cultural myths of rags to riches na...

Why you should see White House Down (seriously)

Why You Should See White House Down (Seriously) It's the pinnacle of dumb fun summer blockbuster entertainment. --- James Vanderbilt, writer of the infinitely more intelligent Zodiac, has crafted a masterclass in plant and payoff, and, to put it...

We're back! Or at least Dylan's back. He's gonna tell you whether or not you'd enjoy World War Z.

World War Z - Film Review The definition of a fun, harmless summer blockbuster. --- The pre-, mid-, and post-production struggles on "World War Z" were well-documented on every film website known to man. After a draft by J....

Youth Lagoon is coming...Wondrous Bughouse on the way-First listen thoughts
http://lifeafternirvana.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/wondrous-bughouse-youth-lagoon-first-listen-thoughts/

Wondrous Bughouse-Youth Lagoon || First Listen Thoughts The one man band of Trevor Powers in Youth Lagoon sees the release of his new album "Wondrous Bughouse" after the amazing debut album "The Year of Hibernation" come on March 5th. Thanks to NPR we g...

More Sam Lachow dropping. Naturally.

Sam Lachow – Dabbin’ Up a Storm Hey there guys, good to see you. How you been? Well? Good to hear. We’re gonna do something a little bit different today (100% not different at all if you know anything about me). For those o...

Yeah we get up on that Ra Ra Riot game y'all.

http://lifeafternirvana.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/ra-ra-riot-new-album-beta-love/

Ra Ra Riot – New Album “Beta Love” First full length album coming from Ra Ra Riot since the release of The Orchard about 2.5 years ago, and the departure of their cellist. This album sounds pretty damn good, although it’s defi...

New Call and Response! Viral video helmer Bubba Fish ("Day and Night" and "Workout Buddies") is interviewed again, discussing his wildly successful collaboration with Eric Radloff of Bear Attack and more!

Call and Response – Bubba Fish, writer/director of YouTube smash “Workout Buddies” It’s been a wild ride for Bubba Fish these past few weeks. Since the online premiere of his short film “Workout Buddies”, a sort-of sequel to an earlier film–”Day and Night“, whic...

A.$.A.P. Rocky + Florence Welch? Damn good:
http://lifeafternirvana.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/a-a-p-rocky-ft-florence-welch-i-come-apart/

A.$.A.P. Rocky Ft. Florence Welch – “I Come Apart” A$AP Rocky’s debut album, Long.Live.A$AP, dropped yesterday after numerous leaks from it as January 15th approached. A$AP has always been quite the interesting artist to me, because I usually...

Guess who's back...

My Favorite Albums of 2012 I’m not going to pretend like I’m a professional critic who gets the opportunity to pore over every piece of music released in any given week, month, or year. Listening to music and pla...

New Starf**ker track!
http://lifeafternirvana.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/strfkr-say-to-you/

STRFKR-”Say To You” So new Starf**ker track, “Say To You” just out, the third single on the upcoming album Miracle Mile and so far this album looks to shape up real nicely. This track is a bit more on the ...

Seattle has to be the best city ever. Rapper for mayor?

http://lifeafternirvana.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/damn-seattle-you-filthy/

Damn Seattle, You Filthy It’s OFFICIAL….. I’m running for Mayor of Seattle in 2025. Spread the word. We got a campaign to win. -Macklemore Oh man, This should be good. The current king of the Seattle musi...

The awkward moment when the song Vincent blogged about way back in April 2011 shows up on the Pitch Perfect soundtrack EP.

Introducing- High Highs In May, we’ll be privileged to receive the release of the High High’s EP. The Brooklyn-based trio, which came from Australia (isn’t that a trip?) prides themselves on crafting dre...