Parker Dunn

  It’s been over a month now since rapper Playboi Carti dropped his long-awaited second studio album “Whole Lotta Red.” Released on Christmas Day of 2020, “WLR” shows Carti embracing his more alternative side, with the shades of punk and emo apparent on past works coming in full force on this new record. And as...

  I’m more familiar than most with the horrors of dementia — my grandpa had Alzheimer’s disease — but I am still a stranger to how terrifying it must be to actually experience such mental decline.  “Everywhere at the End of Time” attempts to convey the experience of dementia through a vast six and a...

The image of a kid holding onto a bunch of balloons as he drifts off into the sky is nothing short of iconic. Extracted from the 1956 French short film “Le Ballon Rouge” (The Red Balloon), this image has been a source of inspiration for so many, and magician and endurance performer David Blaine

Beauty is often tagged onto the symmetrical, the flawless — the things in life that beg to be looked at. The late German American writer Charles Bukowski found beauty in the disturbed, the taboo — the things in life that most tend to avoid or miss completely. Bukowski boasts an impressive body of work

  Comedy has been around for what seems like forever. Controversial comedy has also been around for quite some time, with some ancient Greek tragicomedy satyr plays — which sometimes featured phallic props — dating as far back as 500 B.C. Nowadays, it feels like sex, race and politics are, to some degree, a part...

Legendary indie garage rock band The Strokes are finally back with their first album in seven painstakingly long years, “The New Abnormal.” It hasn’t been a completely dry seven years — the group from New York did drop an EP titled “Future Present Past” back in 2016, but four tracks can only hold me

  Don’t get me wrong — I love streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Disney Plus. Having mass amounts of movies and TV shows available at my fingertips is nothing to complain about. However, the video-sharing platform YouTube will always hold a special place in my heart. Though I love professional production, A-list actors and...

I was absolutely fascinated the first time I heard of Envelop — just the mere thought of a 3D, 32-speaker audiovisual experience had no trouble piquing my interest. When I found out they were holding a listening of my favorite band Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool,” I immediately made space in my schedule and bought

  Nashville-based singer-songwriter Patrick Droney is back with a striking, soulful single in “The Wire”, and he’s ready to take on the music world. The release of Droney’s self-titled debut EP back in 2018 catapulted his career into high heaven, spawning over 10 million streams, a performance on Late Night with Seth Meyers and a...