Punk bands can be like your significant other. They like to drag you along, offer some of the catchiest hooks, put a smile on your face and let the feeling of greatness sink in over and over again. They can make your day with upbeat riffs, put you on...

"Roll Bounce" is a "feelings" type of movie. It makes you feel immediately excited, sad, and at the end, pretty restless. In many ways it is reminiscent of "Saturday Night Fever," as both tell coming of age stories of kids in the city whose lives revolve...

Ryan Cabrera will have every pre-teen girl swooning over him after one listen of this album. "And even if we can or can’t be friends/ I’ll be with you until the very end so/ shine on/ you were made to." How many exes can say that? For a singer/songwriter,...

Products have claims which consumers take for granted; sometimes we’ve even fallen for a gimmick. The Weekender staff is not one for being taken for granted. Recently, we gathered in a small room with our chemistry set in hand and - like a team of trained...

With the music industry pushing legal downloads, digital music services have offered a not so appealing alternative - programs that are not free. The iTunes program comes with the purchase of an iPod. iTunes allows users to search through over two million...

Although the airline thriller "Flightplan" hits theaters more than a month after the Wes Craven air-bound suspense film, "Red Eye," there are numerous themes and situations within the two plots too similar to be coincidental. Lacking a famed director...

Take an aspiring actress, a woman suffering from amnesia because of a car accident, a mysterious cowboy and a sudden, out-of-the-blue lesbian scene and what do you get? That’s right, you get a David Lynch movie. Lynch, whose past credits include the...

For a genre embraced for its forward thinking, Brit-rock bands sure age poorly. With the exception to Supergrass, other mid-’90s giants have fizzled with nary the rock ’n’ roll chops or smarmy Englishness the genre’s name implies. Oasis hasn’t...

In a university setting, diversity is key. At NIU, programs like the foreign exchange program allow students to broaden their view of the world without physically leaving the country. French instructor Perrine Delcour-Trinta contributes such diversity...

Hard-rocking, Chicago-based Disturbed finally return to the music scene. After a three-year hiatus between releases, Disturbed’s third album, "Ten Thousand Fists," has managed to return the group to its original "metal" status. After five years of repetitive...

he original face of rock music, as old as it may be, will not be forgotten. The Mississippi Blues Band is making sure of that. The trio, which sticks solely to acoustic music, is on a mission to educate its audience about the history of rock ’n’ roll...

Editor’s note: Struppendous Advice is still taking question submissions for this semester. Chris Strupp is an entertainment advice columnist who wants to advise people through rough times in their lives. If you have any questions for him to answer,...