Irrelevant But Awesome

Welcome to Kue's List! This is a weekly collection of fresh and fantastic tunes curated by yours truly, Jonah Kue. So, without further adieu, here's this week's Kue's List, followed by Apple Music and Spotify links to it: Justice - "Safe and Sound" DJ Khaled - "Holy Key (feat. Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar, & Betty Wright)" Snakehips - "Cruel (feat. ZAYN)" Ady Suleiman - "Running Away" M.I.A. - "Go Off" Popcaan - "Killy Killy" TINI - "Great Escape" A.CHAL - "Far from Home" Skrillex & Rick Ross - "Purple Lamborghini" Jon Bellion - "Guillotine (feat. Travis Mendes)" AlunaGeorge - "Mean What I Mean (feat. Leikeli47 & Dreezy)" Lupe Fiasco - "Pick Up the Phone" Click for Apple Music link Click for Spotify link

Elliot is a smart guy. It's something easy to forget after the way season 1 ended and how season 2 has begun because the stigma of mental illness tends to overshadow any sort of mental capability. Let's put it this way, Mr. Robot is like a program Elliot created for his mind to stay on track to carry out fsociety's plan and when Elliot was about to stray from that plan, the Mr. Robot program took over his brain completely and auto-piloted Elliot to a world-wide cyber attack. So now that the deed is done, Elliot is alone with the program and is noticing the bugs, hence the error code he sees in this episode and it's discussed in the scene with Ray (Craig Robinson) that the solution is to fix the code and continue on. We as a television audience has a short tolerance for really any multi-episode arc. I praised the Elliot isolation thing in the review of last week's 2-part season premiere but now that it's carried over into the third episode even I had a twinge ...

Welcome to Kue's List! This is a weekly collection of fresh and fantastic tunes curated by yours truly, Jonah Kue. So, without further adieu, here's this week's Kue's List, followed by Apple Music and Spotify links to it: The Naked and Famous - "Higher" Sofi Tukker - "Awoo (feat. Betta Lemme)" Francis and the Lights - "Friends (feat. Bon Iver)" Snow Tha Product - "Nights (feat. W. Darling)" AWOLNATION - "Run (Beautiful Things)" Banks - "Fuck with Myself" Shura - "What's It Gonna Be?" Jagwar Ma - "O B 1" Lady Leshurr - "Where Are You Now? (feat. Wiley)" Dreezy - "Spazz" Liss - "Miles Apart" Young the Giant - "Jungle Youth" Tinashe - "Superlove" Z-ro - "My Money" Kacy Hill - "Lion" Click for Apple Music link Click for Spotify link

The Dear Hunter: Green EP As far as personal preferences go, this particular EP in the Color Spectrum is hit or miss depending on how I'm feeling on a particular day. When I listened through the album the first time, I definitely was not feeling it at all and it was almost a year later when I finally appreciated the details and overall tone. On the surface, this is Dear Hunter's attempt at country songs with a healthy mixture of folk and singer/songwriter elements of the genre and less of the pop country that uses the words "cold beer" like a comma. And honestly, the faint twang of the occasional steel guitar is really the only element of these songs that make the genre bend from folk to country at least for 3/4 of the EP. However, by the time you reach the final green song, Inheritance, they've gone full folk and sounds like it would fit any Avett Brothers or Mumford and Sons album. Inheritance is one of those songs that have stuck out more and more as tim...

*If spoilers are a thing you care about, go finish watching season 1 before reading this, ya dumb-dumbs* There was two challenges that I faced when I sat down and watched the two part season premiere of Mr. Robot last night: there were so many loose ends left from season one that it was difficult to keep straight what was what and that was partly due to the second challenge. After it was established that Mr. Robot was existing only in Elliot's imagination, it left me trying to figure out if any of the new characters Elliot was interacting with (like his friend that he eats every meal with and Craig Robinson's character) are also figments of his imagination. It's like the most recent season of Game of Thrones (yeah, I'm spoiling that too) when time travel was revealed to now be in play, the possibilities were endless as far as fan theories grew rampant. Now that season one established the degradation of Elliot's mental stability in the form of hallucinations ...

Welcome to Kue's List! This is a weekly collection of fresh and fantastic tunes curated by yours truly, Jonah Kue. So, without further adieu, here's this week's Kue's List, followed by Apple Music and Spotify links to it: RIVRS - "Falling" The Head and The Heart - "All We Ever Knew" Jidenna - "Little Bit More" Shapes in Calgary - "Happy Now" Transviolet - "LA Love" ScHoolboy Q - "Dope Dealer (feat. E-40)" Chevelle - "Door to Door Cannibals" Wild Beasts - "Get My Bang" GTA & Wax Motif - "Get It All" Niki & The Dove - "You Want the Sun" Blood Orange - "Best to You" Mabel - "Thinking of You" Click for Apple Music link Click for Spotify link

The Dear Hunter - Yellow EP The mood lightens up even further with Dear Hunter's most gleeful EP in the Color Spectrum starting with the blissful and cheery "She's Always Singing" which is ringing with happy innocence. And musically, that continues through the remaining songs although I would argue that innocence is lost a bit lyrically in the final Yellow song "Misplaced Devotion" and it's seemingly about a guy convincing a girl to cheat on her significant other. Sure, it sounds like the significant other isn't a good fit but still, it leans more towards blissful ignorance than anything else. Perhaps that's the theme of the EP, youthful emotions that lead to actions, some of said actions aren't the smartest but there's nothing malicious about it and innocent in intent. "She's Always Singing" is that lovely song in your head when you fall in love with someone for the first time, "Dead Don't Starve" is wh...

The following review contains spoilers. If that's something you care about, then why are you reading this review. You really have no one to blame but yourself.  Swiss Army Man is a film by "Daniels" the name to collectively identify the team of Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan that is seems to be famously known as "that Daniel Radcliffe farting corpse movie that a bunch of critics walked out on during Sundance." And of course, that's only scratching the surface of the film, even if it's the most prominent identifying feature of it. So let's just hit a few points in the plot to start things off. Hank (played by Paul Dano) is stranded on an island for some time and has given up hope of rescue or surviving as he places a noose that's dangling at the mouth of a cave around his neck. Before Hank kills himself, he spots a body (Daniel Radcliffe) that has washed up onto the beach and after inspection, Hank realizes the body is dead. Hank resumes...

Welcome to Kue's List! This is a weekly collection of fresh and fantastic tunes curated by yours truly, Jonah Kue. So, without further adieu, here's this week's Kue's List, followed by Apple Music and Spotify links to it: Laura Mvula - "Overcome (feat. Nile Rodgers)" Shura - "Make It Up" Vic Mensa - "Liquor Locker" Broods - "Free" Why We Run - "Hallway" Tinie Tempah - "Mamacita (feat. Whizkid)" Demi Lovato - "Body Say" Roy Woods - "Gwan Big Up Urself" Bat for Lashes - "Sunday Love" The Ninjas - "Morphine" The Raveonettes - "Won't You Leave Me Alone" Metronomy - "Hang Me Out To Dry (With Robyn)" Click for Apple Music link Click for Spotify link

The Dear Hunter - Orange EP A few reviews back I described how The Dear Hunter has a sound quality that feels "warm"  and that remains to be the constant that continues through all of their albums, regardless of the specific genre each color is suppose to represent. Orange, as one might expect, leans into that warm sound a little further. However, the overall impression I get from this particular EP is a more laid back, bluesy jam session that finds its way into all four of the songs, especially towards the end. Each track gets at least one moment of unstructured brilliance that feels like a long, relaxing drive to nowhere in-particular while the sun sets, I'm making the assumption that's where the Orange color kicks in with all this. I've overlooked this set of songs many times in the past mostly because it has the bad luck of following the best EP in the Spectrum. However, don't overlook Orange too much because even though we haven't quite made it...

Welcome to a special edition of Kue's List! This particular edition is our celebration of the Fourth of July with a list curated to represent a perspective of our country from a newer, more accurately representative eyes. Ladies and gentlemen, The New American Playlist: Rage Against the Machine - "Wake Up" Jay Z - "Somewhereinamerica" Killer Mike - "Reagan" System of a Down - "B.Y.O.B" Michael Jackson - "They Don't Care About Us" Kendrick Lamar - "The Blacker the Berry" Bruce Springsteen - "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" Lily Allen - "The Fear" M.I.A. - "Borders" Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" Vince Staples - "Hands Up" Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" Lupe Fiasco - "All Black Everything" Lady Gaga - "Born This Way" Beyonce - "***Flawless (feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)...