This week on our music criticism podcast Hear and Now, we’re talking about some of the boldest and most interesting new albums of the year. First up is the long anticipated return of electronic producer Grimes in her most arrestingly poppy effort so far, Art Angels. Then we delve into Ty Dolla $ign’s […]
Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Gifts for Music Fanatics
With almost all the music in the world available for free thanks to streaming services, it’s a wonderful time to be a music fan but a difficult time to be a music gifter. Now that you can’t give an audiophile the new album from their favorite artist, what do you […]
“The Night Before” Goes Big Or Goes Ho-Ho-Home
The Night Before (2015) Release Date: November 20, 2015 Cast: Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anthony Mackie, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Shannon, Mindy Kaling Director: Jonathan Levine Studio: Good Universe, Point Grey Pictures Distributor: Columbia Pictures Genre(s): Comedy, Holiday Rating: ★★★½ ☆☆ Review Spoilers: Light IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia When I left my screening of […]
Master of None Season 1 Review
Master of None Cast: Aziz Ansari, Noël Wells, Eric Wareheim, Lena Waithe Created by: Aziz Ansari, Alan Yang Episodes: 10 Genres: Comedy-drama Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Medium Netflix | IMDB Halfway through the second episode of Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix show Master of None, I looked to the other side of my couch and saw that my girlfriend […]
Episode 4: Joanna Newsom, Neon Indian, Majical Cloudz
This week on our music review podcast Hear and Now with Steve Jozef, all three of the albums we’re talking about kick ass, and all in totally different ways. We begin with the lush and beautiful new release Divers from harp-plucking indie folk darling Joanna Newsom. Next, we groove and jive to the […]
Episode 3: Disclosure, Wavves, John Grant
Hear and Now just keeps getting smoother, tighter, and more competently edited, doesn’t it? This week we’re talking up Caracal, the new release from the now hyper-popular house duo Disclosure. We move on to the surf punk group Wavves, with their newest and perhaps best album, V. And we finish things […]
Hear and Now Episode 2: CHVRCHES, Fetty Wap, Julia Holter
Hey, episode 2! We’ve made it this far! This week on Hear and Now with Steve Jozef, we kick things off with the new album Every Open Eye from Glasgow synthpop group CHVRCHES, their followup to their breakout release The Bones of What You Believe. Then we tackle the debut self-titled album from the […]
Rick and Morty: The Wedding Squanchers Recap [Season Finale]
Synopsis of 2×10: The family attends Birdperson’s wedding to Tammy, but things go haywire and they have to escape to a new planet. Rating: ★★★★★ And so here we are. Every week, Rick bends the boundaries of what should be possible in our universe. Every week, Rick steals, cheats, manipulates, often […]
Rick and Morty: Look Who’s Purging Now Recap
Synopsis of 2×09: Rick and Morty find themselves stranded on an alien planet in the midst of its annual purge festival. Jerry tries to reconnect with his daughter. Rating: ★★★1/2☆☆ I always appreciate when a show dares to step into totally new territory, especially when that show is Rick and Morty because they […]
Introducing Hear and Now with Steve Jozef, a Nerdophiles Podcast
Even if you think of yourself as a music fanatic, you probably don’t read music reviews, and I don’t blame you at all. Have you ever read a description of a song and pictured the exact sounds in your head? Neither have I. Music simply doesn’t suit itself to the written […]
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