Each Thursday, the Avenue is serving up the best in entertainment, pop culture and everything in between. From the big screen to the radio waves, check out this week’s picks.
Buy: Come Around Sundown
Tennessee rockers Kings of Leon maintains its (reluctant) slot in mainstream rock with its fifth studio album, which was released this week. The four-piece family band, which remained in obscurity for half a decade, gained attention among the masses in 2008 with pop-rock tunes like “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire,” facing its first-time devoted followers, who claimed the band had sold out. But because we’re still on fire from their last record, we’ll sing along no matter what.
Go: Gainesville’s Pride Parade & Festival
Celebrate Gainesville’s LGBT community by heading out this Saturday at 1 p.m. to the Eighth Annual Pride Parade, which starts at the intersection of Seventh Street and West University Avenue. After that, head to Gainesville’s Bo Diddley Community Plaza from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., where the Pride Community Center of Gainesville will hold this year’s Pride Festival, which will feature local musical acts and vendors. The event is free and open to the public.
Listen: Like a G6
Sometimes the best songs are the ones that don’t mean anything at all. Take “Like a G6,” an electro beat-sampling, fun, fresh track about being as “fly” as a G6, which, if you didn’t know, is a private jet. Last week, it climbed to the No. 1 spot on iTunes and the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In this club-worthy tune, the Far East Movement spits silly verses about “poppin’ bottles in the ice like a blizzard” and “sippin’ sizzurp in my ride,” over a perfectly orchestrated mix of bleeps, blips, blurbs and blurps, making it absolutely impossible to not let loose and jam out.
See: Paranormal Activity 2
There’s still about a week until Halloween, but those whose appetite for horror can’t be satiated by ABC Family’s “13 Nights of Halloween” are sure to get their fix this Friday. A follow-up to last year’s freaky documentary hit, “Paranormal Activity 2” is sure to produce just as many shrieks, gasps and horrors as did its predecessor – and probably make as much bank (the first grossed $193 million worldwide). This time around, a young couple sets up video cameras around their house to catch what they suppose is a burglar. However, they soon find the suspicious activity isn’t the work of burglars at all — but rather that of ghosts, spirits or something that just can’t be explained.
