It’s the second weekend of Desert Trip, or “Oldchella” as the millennial crowd called it. A new festival created by the owners of Coachella as a throwback of sorts for a younger crowd to be introduced to influential artists who paved the way for the new guard. Tucked away...
Some people are born destined for greatness. Whether it be to climb Mt. Everest or write the great American novel, these people suddenly wake up and realize their purpose on this Earth. That’s exactly how narrative writing major Aly Ferguson, now 21, felt when she first started writing in...
One morning, I woke up, grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down on the couch with my dad and brother. We watched “Sacred Steel”, a show about a small custom motorcycle shop in LA, and then flipped the channel over to the film “Road House.” A classic example...
Insert Credits: A Guide to Buying Games this Holiday The holidays are coming and that means crazy packs of people itching for the best deals on the newest stuff. As with everything else, there is a high volume of video games to pick and choose from, but not all...
Love them or hate them, the name Metallica is synonymous with American heavy metal. Since they released their debut album, “Kill ‘Em All” in 1983, the band released a string of albums that would come to be hailed as classics in the genre, leading up to the release of...
When “No Man’s Sky” was announced at the PlayStation Experience in 2013, it was a very tall order. An undertaking the likes of which had never been seen before, the game promised an ever expanding universe so vast, you’d never see the end of it, thrilling space travel and...
Guillermo del Toro’s films are nothing short of dark fantasy genius. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, del Toro began experimenting with his father’s Super 8 camera at the age of eight, making short films with Planet of the Apes action figures. He enrolled in the Centro de Investigacion y...
June 29th, 1999: Slipknot unleashes their self-titled debut album on an unknowing world. Provocative,dark,heavy, and outside of anything the world had heard, one anonymous A&R rep from the band’s label, Roadrunner Records, released a statement saying “If this is the future of music, I don’t want to be alive”,...
This year has been huge for heavy music so far, and this weekend has just added to the monster pile of heavy that we can look forward to before the year is out. Included are some of the songs that you can expect to hear before the year is...
Well, it’s that time of year LA! FYF Fest is upon us, and while it’s one of the summer’s premier events, jam packed with highly anticipated acts, that doesn’t mean there are a few you should skip. Let’s dive into the lineup to see who’s a swing and who’s...