February 28 Album review: Darwin Deez, 'Songs for Imaginative People'

By MAX ASAYESH-BROWN, St. Petersburg High

Grade: ***, 3/5 asterisks

A year and a half of critiquing music has taught me that indie rock is perhaps the most common genre ...

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February 28 Album review: Tegan and Sara, 'Heartthrob'

By HANNAH ELLIOTT, Robinson High
Available: Now
Grade: **, 2/5 asterisks

Canadian twins Tegan and Sara have been around awhile and are now out with their seventh album, Heartthrob. I ...

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February 28 Cheat sheet: Oscars recap, Harlem shake-up, new GPA formula

By Ellen Pham, Chamberlain High

From Jennifer Lawrence tripping on her gown to Kristen Stewart hobbling to present an award with Daniel Radcliffe to Seth MacFarlane dropping a clunker John ...

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February 21 Album review: Foals, 'Holy Fire'

By HANNAH ELLIOTT, Robinson High

Grade: ***, 3/5 asterisks

There is something very predictable yet completely unknown about the Foals and their sound. At some points their music is just ...

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February 21 Movie review: 'Beautiful Creatures'

By Ellen Pham,  Chamberlain High
Grade: ***, 3/5 asterisks

Several films have been cashing in on the Twilight premise, where mythical creatures combine with an abnormal romance; Beautiful Creatures is ...

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February 19 Best song pick hard to predict

BY MAX ASAYESH-BROWN, St. Petersburg High

Life isn’t getting easier for the category of Best Original Song in the Academy Awards — last year a mere two nominations were announced ...

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February 14 Album review: Jim James, 'Regions of Light and Sound of God'

By HANNAH ELLIOTT, Robinson High 

Sometimes I forget why I love music, and for the first time in a while, I remembered. Jim James, the frontman of My Morning Jacket ...

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February 14 Movie review: 'Identity Thief'

By Ellen Pham, movie/tv critic

Grade: **, 2/5 asterisks

Don’t believe the glossy, cleverly edited trailer for Identity Thief — it hardly deserves to be called a comedy. The ...

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February 14 Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange'

Grade: ****, 4/5 asterisks
Available: Now

By MAX ASAYESH-BROWN, St. Petersburg High

I don’t have a huge problem with the whole bandwagon situation. Who cares when you heard of ...

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February 5 Your guide to the Grammys

BY HANNAH ELLIOT, Robinson High

Grammy season is here, with Sunday marking the 55th year of the Grammy Awards. This event is no MTV Music Video or Teen Choice Awards ...

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February 5 Album review: Local Natives' 'Hummingbird'

In past reviews of indie rock bands, I’ve done my best to factor in the degree of difficulty. For a genre characterized by dissociation from popular norms, lots of ...

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February 5 Album review: The Joy Formidable's 'Wolf's Law'

When I saw the Joy Formidable at 97X Next Big Thing 2011, I was only watching because Young the Giant was next. Though my attention wasn’t really on them ...

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February 5 Movie review: 'Warm Bodies' offers zombie romance

At its core, Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy about zombies. Yes, you read that correctly. Nearly three months after wrapping up the Twilight Saga (just when I was beginning ...

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January 29 Album review: Bad Religion, 'True North'

By HANNAH ELLIOTT, Robinson High

True North is Bad Religion’s 16th studio album and it is not a disappointment, at least that is what the punk-rock community is saying ...

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January 29 Album review: Mountains, 'Centralia'

By MAX ASAYESH-BROWN, St. Petersburg High

Don’t be fooled by the seemingly modest seven-track length of Mountains’ baby album Centralia — some songs reach impressive but almost obnoxious lengths ...

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