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It’s hard not to root for “Annie” — both the modern-day reproduction of the 1930s musical and Quvenzhane Wallis’ adorably amicable portrayal of the titular character. With that said, “Annie” is far too modernist for its own good, relying excessively on gaudy embellishments of current trending topics and making insufficient
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Cloaked in the drizzly crevices of Rockridge, Leo’s Music Club, with its spare, dimly lit barroom, was home to a night of local, mainstream-averse, punk-rock shredding Thursday. This was spearheaded by SoCal veteran youngsters the Bots, who were interviewed last week by The Daily Californian. Opening act War Clog, if
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The spirit of classic Americana country-folk was reignited at Oakland’s Fox Theater on Thursday night through the one-two punch of rising folkster Samantha Crain and melodious trendsetters First Aid Kit, who both elegantly proffered their modernized revision on the elegiac, melancholy musings of folk-legend lore. Plucked out of Shawnee, Oklahoma,
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Witnessing the rise of my old high-school pals Anaiah and Mikaiah Lei to future hometown hero status is life affirming to witness, a heartening culmination of their dedication to their musical craft. The Bots, a two-man alt-punk duo formed by the Lei brothers, hail from my hometown of Glendale, California.
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The landmines of adolescence — young love, self-discovery, irrational envy — are perplexingly difficult to navigate and all too easy to muck up in trite stereotyping and theatricality. Young Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Ribeiro is fully cognizant of the travails of teenhood, and though he sticks to the multitude of standard
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Jessie Ware is an anomaly of a pop star. Years older than fellow British soul revivalists and pals Sam Smith and Adele, Ware and her brand of soft, understated R&B is reminiscent of early Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston — golden icons whose hits were executed with equal doses of
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For a musical icon as consistently deified in the classic-rock canon as Jimi Hendrix, it would be far too reductive to shoehorn him into the overripe “instant rock star” tropes that have riddled the vast majority of pop-culture films. Much like the Hendrix depicted by Andre Benjamin — Outkast’s Andre
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