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"The Boy Named If" by Elvis Costello & the Imposters

  Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What's your adventure? Today's adventure takes us back to the days of classic rock and roll where influences came from blues music and not hip hop, where the genre felt young and vibrant and no longer stale! Elvis Costello & the Imposters brings us back to that time with their latest album titled "The Boy Named If".  This is Elvis Costello's 32nd and his 4th with the Imposters and it shows. It shows their talent and experience in the field of rock and roll unfortunately it also shows just how stale rock music has begun. The album is really good though! It sounds great with every instrument having it's time to shine and sticking out. The production of the album is spot on!  The album also is really full coming in with 13 tracks and 52 minutes which is an impressive length but sometimes that helps and album sometimes that hurts it. In this album's case it hurts, it has a lot of filler music in it. There are some really gre...

#11- Into the Spider-verse

Welcome back to Thrak Attack! We're closing out the year with our last regular post of 2018. We are getting into Top 10's of 2018 territory and I also still have one more movie to review. So let's get the ball rolling there has been a ton of news this week! So let's get started! NEWS! -The first look at the Sonic the Hedgehog film looks horrendous and I can't wait shovel popcorn into my mouth as I watch this terrible film! -The 7 new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced and include The Cure, Def Leppard, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Radiohead, Roxy Music, and The Zombies. None of my favorites but all great choices. -Tony Hawk finally releases an mobile game for iOS and Android titled "Tony Hawk Skate Jam". This makes logical sense for the series. -Police respond to a noise complaint and then joined in the Smash Bros game that caused it. That's how you do it! -Pokemon Go player vs. player battles are finally live but I have n...