Author: Adam Chmielewski

The record store is a dying beauty of Americana while this article will close with the slightest dash of optimism, everything you read between now and is something that I’m not happy to be writing about. Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard is closing. ABC7.com reported that on June 25th the Los Angeles City Council voted to approve plans demolishing the iconic store to build a 26-story apartment building. The property will contact 232 residential units, with 10 of them reserved for low income families. There will also be commercial space, open space, and I’m sure I won’t be affording it…

If you’re the Cartoon Network, it’s either the most on the nose thing ever to schedule a band that was the central focus of one of your shows, to headline your own music festival… or it’s a marketing genius! Let’s hope for the latter as the lineup for the second installment of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim Festival dropped today and right at the top of the bill are the Deathklok. You might remember them as the stars of Metalocalypse, a classic animated series about an ungodly successful death metal band. Yes, after recovering from what I’m assuming is the biggest…

Get ready indie-rock music snobs (myself included)… 2019 is going to be the year that our beloved darling of non-mainstream ska pop bliss called Vampire Weekend will chart a course to soon be the biggest band in the world. Yes, the days of you and only a couple of your cool friends knowing about Vampire Weekend are gone. Personally I’m surprised because I knew they were good, I just didn’t think they’d get this good. The difference between their self titled debut and Father Of The Bride is astronomical. It’s almost two different bands except for the fact that under…

No, Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are not actually twins separated at birth… but what if they were? Kind of sounds like the premise of a 1988 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Two dudes, completely different, including size, appearance, yet they are twins. Then, in your typical Hollywood fashion, the brothers are reunited and go figure, each one is able to help the other, which leads to a blossoming relationship. Yes, that is a brief, but surprisingly accurate three sentence description of the classic comedy. Though the wheels of production haven’t started spinning yet, the Aquaman studhorse expressed…

So the Halloween franchise got a fresh shot of success with its most recent installment.. even I was surprised at how well David Gordon Green and Danny McBride handled rebooting my favorite of all the slasher series. Apparently a whole bunch of other people thought the movie was pretty good. I don’t remember reading any scathing reviews, seeing Rotten Tomatoes kill the opening weekend, plus my buddy Jason liked it and he hates everything. I should probably add Halloween made $255 million dollars worldwide. And when you are hot, you ride that son-of-a-bitch for all its worth. Which brings me…

If you’re reading this I would like for you to either get down on one knee, bow your heads, whatever bodily position you usually take, and give a shout out to the higher power that’s above, below, or surface level. Why acknowledge our deities now? To put it in the simple King’s English… the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie will be rated “R”. Collider.com along with various media outlets reported on this recent development which has me excited well beyond the obvious reasons of “F” bombs and more realistic violence. Of course “F” bombs are great in movies, I’m sure we’ll…

Since 2016 I was seriously under the impression that Glen Danzig and Jerry Only squashed their beef and reunited The Misfits to be a regular touring band again. Maybe make a new record, or at least be a group who plays a couple shows and festivals every year from now until Danzig’s voice could no longer pull off the opening verse of “Last Caress”. As it turns out, I was wrong. Dead wrong. In a June 12th article from ConsequenceOfSound.net we now know the reason behind the recent wave of Misfits concerts and go figure, it’s pretty much the only…

Game Of Thrones is over and I need a reason to keep my HBONow subscription. It’s weird but I feel like only eight years or so ago the Home Box Office kept my attention year round. One killer Sunday night lineup followed by the next from January through November. However in recent times the network has seemed to be a primarily Thrones driven network. And now that the show is over, myself, along with the executives at the studio, are in need of a new television phenomenon. Enter Watchmen; Damon Lindelof’s upcoming series based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’…

If you like stories about people with special abilities, and to get even more specific, born with their abilities, Gerard Way, Gabrielle Ba, and Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is kinda all you have to look forward to. There’s no more Heroes on NBC, The Gifted got cancelled, you’re probably not going to fork over the loot to see Dark Phoenix, plus why invest time in new X-Men movies when Disney will more than likely start gutting the franchise so it may be rebuilt. However, if there’s only going to be one powers via birth situation on your television, The Umbrella…

Stop, uh, Rumor Time! When you’re looking for topics to write about for Nerdbot, the Disney, Fox Acquisition could be a plethora of potential stories just waiting to be broken. Obviously the relevance for our readers lies mostly in the integration of the Fox Marvel characters to the Disney Marvel Cinematic Universe. You know, the one that released like the biggest movie ever a couple of months ago. Yes… that one. But before we discuss the main focus of this article I want to say in advance that what you are about to read is one hundred percent a RUMOR.…