The Weekly Swarm: 2/24 – 3/2
This past week at Ruby Hornet, we had to say our unfortunate goodbyes to famed actor, writer, director, and comedian Harold Ramis, shared the official US trailer for Godzilla, had our first look at the Yeezus film, shared our predictions for this year's Oscars, gave you a heads up on which Chicago musicians to watch out for in 2014, have an ongoing contest for a pair of tickets to Mic Terror's…
[Songs of the Day] 2/24/14 (Feat. Young Thug, Tyga, Big Boi & More)
Monday brought about a bunch of new songs from all corners of the music world. We gathered all the best releases from the weekend and today. Meek Demeo's track "Paper Birds" featuring Kendrick Lamar got a remix from Galimatias that takes the song up a notch higher than it already was, Young Money teased their upcoming collaboration album with "Senile" by Tyga, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne. A Billion…
The Weekly Swarm: 2/17 – 2/23
Last week, we shared the debut trailer for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, word broke out about The Expendables 3's director helming the American remake of The Raid: Redemption, we reviewed Drafthouse Films' Cheap Thrills, #100Trill dropped their debut mixtape, we reviewed The Tontons' latest album, as well as premiered Barber Greene's latest music video, gave an inside look at this year's…
The Weekly Swarm: 2/10 – 2/16
We're officially midway through February. How was everybody's Valentine's Day? Mine was spent hanging out with a good friend over some intense pinball games. My younger self would hate how terribly I was playing on Friday, but I digress. Ruby Hornet had a great V-Day, too, with our Top 10 Valentine's Day Films and Peter CottonTale's Valentine's Day Love Jams. His selections set the tone for a…
The Weekly Swarm: 2/3 – 2/9
Last week marked the return of one of our Film Writers, Alex Katz. Everybody, welcome him back! Alex pulled some extra weight this week, bringing us the latest installment of Netflix Pix, as well as a review of the (apparently) amazing The Lego Movie. Mackenzie also delivered a review of the French rom-com, Love is in the Air, which was (apparently) less than amazing. On the music side, Jake gave…
[Video] Tree: “Like Whoa”
Chicago's own MC Tree has been busy as hell lately. The creator of the sub-genre known as "Soul Trap" teamed up with Scion last month to drop the seven song @MCTREEG EP, yesterday dropped, "More Than You Know" a gem that he'd been sitting on for a minute via Closed Sessions and today, the raspy-voiced producer/rapper returns with a fresh visual for his track, "Like Whoa" off the @MCTREEG EP. The…
[Songs Of The Day] 1/27/14 (Feat. Big Boi, Blood Orange, Imagine Dragons and more)
With the Grammys come and gone and it is with Macklemore as the new-minted golden boy of hip-hop that we bring you a bevy of music that followed the perennially-disappointing award show on the Internet and beyond today as the race began for the next batch of gold gramophones.
Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons got things started at the actual show as they debuted the remix to "Radioactive"…
The Weekly Swarm: 12/16 – 12/22
Christmas time is here! I'm actually not very into Christmas anymore, but it does feel good knowing that an amazing 2013 is coming to a close. Enjoy your times with friends and family this week, because next week is going to get crazy. While you're at it, wish our Jake Krzeczowski a Happy 24th Birthday today, okay? While you're at it, don't forget that we're looking for some extra writers to take…