Or at least so I thought.

The first go around on any album is like an awkward first date. You just need to have one more to see if its a good fit.

And it was.

The key to listening to The Employees is turning the volume up!

Their a psychedelic rock/jam band out of Chicago. There are loads of guitar solos that just make your spine tingle. It left me no doubt that they could put one hell of a show on live.

The four-piece band led by Chris Bobowiec on the vocals, covers the depression of the economy, corruption in politics/big business, environmental disasters, unemployment, the death of the American dream.

Some how they manage to cover all that in only 10 tracks, that’s a talented band I say.

One of my favorite tracks on the album is “Winter Round Here,” “Panic” is another good one. It’s got a nice melody and will definitely have you singing along to it if you’ve got a few beers in you.

They may be new on the music work’s force, but they definitely deserved to be hired (sorry, couldn’t help myself).

Check out a few of the New York Giants’ players trying their best to imitate wide receiver, Victor Cruz, and his salsa dancing.

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Some charge you by the item you select and then there’s some that serve up the freshest ingredients you’ll find for a flat fee.

I’m talking Artichoke Cafe on 37th between 7th and 8th Avenue.

You get to select a total of five items for only $7.

The chicken (you can even pick pesto chicken, one of my favorites) taste so fresh and not mass-produced.

It was easily the best salad I’ve had.

I also tried one of their smoothies and it was delicious too!

I plan on going back more and more. I want to try their deserts too.

According to The Atlantic Wire report, the plan is for his character to be back at home on Schrute farms. The move may even go down closer to the end of this season.

They are even going to unload more of the Schrute bloodline on to the public, cousins and neighbors.

I would have rather seen a Michael Scott spin-off show in Colorado than watch the Schrute diarrhea.

Will you watch?

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The first trailer for Rage – Midsummer’s Eve was released last week.

Rage is a suspense horror film about a group of friends living and studying in Finland and decide to spend their last summer as students by visiting the Finnish Arctic Circle to experience the “White Nights” and the mystical, originally a pagan holiday, Midsummer’s Eve.

They’re also doing something cool with their Facebook page. If you like their page you’ll get exclusive behind the scenes footage and be able to enter their contest. They’re giving away an 8-day trip to Los Angeles and dinner with the film’s director, Tii Ricks. If you’re in LA, they’ll send you to New York.

It’s set to release sometime this year. It’s written and directed by Ricks and stars Mikko Vartiainen, Holly Georgia and Johnny Sachon.

Movie Logo design by Oded Shein.

This time around the legendary indie rock band is working with Sanford Parker, a renowned heavy metal producer. He’s work with such bands like Bloodiest, Pelican and Yakuza.

The record is due out this summer and currently named Hallelujah! I’m A Bum.

Local H frontman Scott Lucas commented on working with Parker in a press release.

“Sanford’s awesome,” Lucas says. “He’s been at the forefront of the most interesting things happening out of Chicago for a while, and it’s truly an invigorating experience to work with him. And, if he would quit fucking feeding me all this whiskey, I’d be alright.”

The band is testing new songs out on the road, here is “Paddy Considine:”

Though I’m a Giants fan and you could easily say I’m picking them to win based on my loyalty to them alone, but! I can easily give you five reasons why they’re going to win the Super Bowl once again.

Eli Manning: He’s easily having the best season of his career and is even putting up better numbers than the year he last won the Super Bowl.

The road to the Super Bowl: The Giants level of competition easily outweighs the Patriots’ path to the championship. Big Blue faced Atlanta, defending champions, the Green Bay Packers and the strong, brutally physical San Francisco 49ers. The Giants will be ready for the Pats will loads of momentum on their side.

The defensive front-line: Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck seem to be back normal and injury free. If you add that the crazy talented Jason Pierre-Paul, the pass rush is the best it has been all season long.

Receivers: The Patriots defense is not intimidating at all; Manning with Hakeem Nicks, Victor Cruz and Mario Manningham will pick apart the Patriots corners and safeties.

Playing in Indianapolis: We all know about the wars the Colts and Peyton Manning had with the Patriots. It’s not hard to picture the entire stadium rooting for the New York Giants.

Who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl?

Haywire is the offspring of Bourne Identity and Ocean’s Eleven. Only thing is some of the DNA got lost along the way.

Haywire boast lots of action without quality acting, witty punch lines without great writing.

Gina Carano was a pleasant surprise in this flick.

She plays Mallory, a black ops super soldier that is looking for revenge following a mission where she was betrayed and set up, which they get into rather quickly.

Kudos to the brains that made this film only 93 minutes long. Haywire is an entertaining movie, but nowhere near great. If it was any longer, Haywire would be terrible.

The fight scenes were pretty epic. I was definitely wondering if she was really taking those bumps, that’s how real it looked!

Pros in the film: The aforementioned fight scenes, Michael Douglas getting back into the swing of things and had a good punch line or two. Ewan McGregor was actually tolerable, which surprised me.

Cons in the film: Channing Tatum, is there anything this guy isn’t in? The Jon Voight of our era for sure.

Overall the film is definitely watchable, Netflix-worthy for sure. Regarding Carano, she’s got the potential to be the next big female action star.

Check out the Haywire movie trailer above.

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Press Release:

Great news for fans of enchanting, melodically-endowed Golden State pop: La Sera is back with an infectious new record, Sees The Light. This winning album is a testament to the considerable talents of singer-songwriter Katy Goodman (also of Vivian Girls and All Saints Day), and drops on March 27th.

About the record:

La Sera’s Sees The Light follows 2011’s masterful self-titled debut with ten new tracks of peppy break-up pop brimming with defiance and bitter sweetness. On album opener “Love That’s Gone,” the vocals and drumbeat linger for seconds, swaying in the wind while the guitar cuts through, charming you, pulling you by your shirt and telling you that it is time to move on. This is a break-up album for the best kinds of break-ups. There’s a lightness of touch, too, that surround the harmonies throughout and makes one yearn for the days of Donna Lynn, Julie Ruin and The Shirelles. But before you can settle into your seat, La Sera delivers a one-two punch – a rip of rolling snare and sending you speeding off in a fast car. Seize the light.

La Sera’s lyrics are smart but not heavy; phantasmal, like Daniel Johnston attending church every week of his teenage life, but with a bigger sophistication and a shiny, polished fidelity. Lead single “Please Be My Third Eye” buzzes with an intensity and beauty rarely heard outside the first three Vivian Girls albums. (Not so surprising: La Sera IS Katy Goodman IS one-third of Vivian Girls.) “I Can’t Keep You In My Mind” is Shop Assistants great – just a genius straightforward refrain and sympathetic guitars to play it through.

Where the first La Sera album was super-dreamy in its layered vocals, Sees The Light is more direct, more aggressive; almost a soundtrack to a lost drive-in movie classic. This is not an album for half-hearted partakers in the heartache scene: just an all-consuming love for punk as pop and pop as punk. Songs such as “Don’t Stay” soar away into the stratosphere, solemn and possessed of singular beauty. “Real Boy” is playfully driven in comparison: like being whisked away to a tropical island, while “Drive On” is tear-laden and full of hidden menace like a David Lynch film.

Sees The Light was recorded by Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, the Fall) in beautiful and hazy California.

The Head & The Heart 2012 Tour Dates

Mar 03 Snowball Music Festival, Avon, CO
Mar 04 Granada Theater, Lawrence, KS
Mar 05 Canopy Club, Urbana, IL
Mar 06 Headliner’s Music Hall, Louisville, KY
Mar 08 Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL
Mar 09 Vogue, The, Indianapolis, IN
Mar 10 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
Mar 11 Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac, MI
Mar 13 Opera House (ON), Toronto, Ontario
Mar 14 La Tulipe, MONTRÉAL, Canada
Mar 15 Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT
Mar 16 State Theatre (ME), Portland, ME
Mar 17 Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 18 Terminal Five, New York City , NY
Mar 20 Ram’s Head Live, Baltimore, MD
Mar 21 National, The, Richmond, VA
Mar 23 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
Mar 24 Cannery Ballroom, Nashville, TN
Mar 25 Pageant, St Louis, MO

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