Michael Giacchino — Alias: Season Two [Original Television Soundtrack]

8/10 My review for Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack for the first season of Alias was as much about me as the music. I sacrificed certain details about the show’s plot so you could instead discover how much I like to talk about myself. For this review of the second season soundtrack, the last soundtrack ever released

Michael Giacchino — Alias [Original Television Soundtrack]

8/10 In hindsight, it was a bad idea. A rebellious 19-year old punk rocker should most likely not move in with a structure-loving 26-year old war veteran, no matter how close of friends they are. Derek and I both needed a place to stay, couldn’t afford our own place, and…the rest is history. That we

Is The Nicsperiment Qualified to Review Classical Music?

Allow me to pontificate.In the last four years, I have written and published more than 500 music reviews. Roughly 50 of those reviews were for instrumental albums, roughly 35 of which were classical music albums. The majority of those 35, but not all, were film and television scores. I am soon to review nine albums

Wii U Game Reviews: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Review)

I have to admit, this is one of my favorite pieces I’ve done. I’m not saying it’s one of the best, but I had more fun writing it, and I’m having more fun reading it and looking at it than just about anything I’ve published on the Internet. Writing these video game reviews has been

M.I.A. — Kala

8/10 It’s a dance pop album. I hate that kind of crap. A few seconds in, and it’s a repetitive beat under repetitive, monotone rap-speaking. Then the song gains momentum. Then the beat blows up and all these weird samples come in. Then, all of a sudden, I’m having fun. How is this happening? Same

mewithoutYou — Ten Stories

9/10 Here I am on the last one, and it doesn’t even feel like I’ve written a single review. I must hold a really strange place in my mind and heart for mewithoutYou.Ten Stories is mewithoutYou’s fifth album. Album number four, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright, took the

mewithoutYou — It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright

6/10 I recently read a very interesting interview with mewithoutYou guitarist, Michael Weiss. Therein, Weiss states that the band have a “core sound of competency,” and that mewithoutYou lived more fully in that sound on their second and third albums, Catch for Us the Foxes, and Brother, Sister, respectively. Their fourth album, It’s All Crazy…,

In Just 45 Minutes…

“Raylan, Boyd, and Ava fight one last, bloody battle to find out who leaves Harlan alive.” I can’t believe this is the end…

mewithoutYou — Brother, Sister

10/10 Well, here’s a surprise. In the fall of 2006, I was in an interesting place. I was about to get married, freaking out heavily. Meanwhile, all those freshman who had come in at LSU in fall of 2004 (my last semester), all those kids who had latched on to Underoath’s They’re Only Chasing Safety,

mewithoutYou — Catch for Us the Foxes

10/10 Catch for Us the Foxes is mewithoutYou’s second album. It follows their debut (logically), [A→B] Life, which is a spastic rock record with plenty of seemingly random tempo and structural changes, and angst-filled, yelled vocals. That album is a blast. Their second album is something else entirely. In 2004 (more than a decade ago?!),