11.22.2011

For most bands, merchandise is a pain in the ass, a necessary evil to keep the machine running. For Tegan and Sara, however, merchandise is an opportunity; it’s a chance to be creative in ways other...

Hometown: Kingston, Ontario; Charlottesville, VirginiaAlbum: I Love You, Go EasyFor Fans of: Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, My Brightest Diamond “I’m desperate for entertainment over here!” confesses...

Werner Herzog is arguably one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, and he knows it. His pride confronts you as he expresses pride in his latest project, Into the Abyss, and describes the...

In lonely moments, when I’m by myself late at night and there are no mirrors or other people around, I like to imagine, if only briefly, that I’m not a nerd. It’s a nice reprieve—I just sit there,...

I am not a hero. Watching Sony’s recent “Long Live Play” commercial for the Playstation 3 confirmed this. Don’t get me wrong, I am Michael. I diffused the atomic bomb in Megaton, I saved every little...

“Listenable” is the best way to describe Caveman’s debut album, CoCo Beware. The album, with all of its clacking drums, gently strummed rail-thin guitars and careful, pleasant melodies, is instantly...

Reigning Sound is a band whose time has come. For 10 years now, Greg Cartwright and a myriad of bandmates have released consistently great music for the cream of the garage/punk label crop (Sympathy...

For many, Yelawolf is hip-hop’s great white hope. His start-stop flow resembles an unwinding sandbag accelerating from theater rafters, over the cleanest “dirty South” instrumental skitter of any...

Real talk: If you know who The Spits are, you already own this. So, for the uninitiated, let’s run through some fun facts, shall we? The Spits are, according to the bastion of all that is hacky...

Trevor Powers, the mastermind behind the dreamy electro-infused indie-pop project Youth Lagoon, has provided a set of quiet, well-thought-out songs without managing to make anything pop in a big way....

Count Yer Lucky Stars, Atlanta-based psychedelic pop band Gringo Star’s first full-length album, continues the group’s amalgamation of classic pop and Latin elements heard on its debut self-titled EP....

If you’ve heard of this, it’s probably because you heard Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook is a part of it. That much is true. Depending on what websites you read, you may have also heard that this band,...

A Dangerous Method opens in Zurich in 1904 as we follow a horse-drawn carriage containing a raving Keira Knightley up to a large sanitarium, where she then begins treatment for her violent episodes in...

At first glance, Tarsem Singh’s Immortals seems to fall firmly within the recently born “Zack Snyderian” school of filmmaking. Actually, stare at the film for as long as you wish and that assumption...

Despite its title, Tyrannosaur has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Still, it has plenty of bite. The socio-realistic drama from British actor-turned-director Paddy Considine puts its characters and...

It may be true, as Leo Tolstoy said, that “all happy families resemble one another, [but] each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” There’s enough unhappiness surrounding the family at the...

It’s the dawn of a new pre-Christmas movie season and guess what—the same as every year, there is a new holiday-themed film trying to elbow its way into the fold of timeless classics. Unlike many of...

German documentarian Britta Wauer turns her lens on the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery in north Berlin, the oldest (and second-largest) Jewish necropolis still in use in Europe. Dedicated in 1880, it...

I’ve mentioned before in these reviews that one of my favorite things about Boardwalk Empire is the show’s incredible scope, and that was truer than ever with “Battle of the Century.” By taking on...

For an episode filled with bullets through zombie brains, it was Glenn’s head I was expecting to explode as secrets rattled around inside it like time bombs. Lori is pregnant, there’s a barn full of...

Week by week, I am growing frequently more paranoid that the show Person of Interest might in fact be watching me. But instead of the show’s premise of finding people in trouble and helping them...

This week has been quite the week for NBC shows—none more than the surprise of the freshman sitcom Up All Night. It was announced that the hit show would move to the prestigious Thursday night lineup...

It had to happen. Jess had to find a male counterpart, one who’s as adorkable as she is, (six episodes in, I had to use the cringeworthy word at least once) to double the quirkiness of the show. With...

We’re getting close to NFL playoffs time, which means the end of The League for yet another season. Luckily, if this Thanksgiving episode, complete with special guest stars Sarah Silverman and Jeff...

Has Whitney, the character, become too unbearable? She’s provided her show, named after herself (of course) with a lot of problems through the first seven episodes that have overshadowed the humorous...

If you haven’t heard about what happened on this week’s How I Met Your Mother do not read any further. Normally I like to recap and make observations about what worked and what didn’t work but still...

BoomblasticaPlatform: iOSDeveloper: Thrust InteractivePublisher: Thrust InteractiveRelease Date: Oct. 12Price: Free Yeah, “cute ’em up” is a phrase. Actual people use it. It refers to a subgenre of...

Despite a complex new swordplay system, the new Zelda feels a lot like the last few.Flailing doesn’t work. It’s my first fight in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and simply swinging the Wii Motion...

In America, we love electric guitars, and the dominant music for more than a half century has been guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. A pastiche of African...

The Antlers could have followed up their cathartic masterpiece Hospice with a similar record, but they chose to go another route. Their latest album Burst Apart contains solid songwriting and a...

Watch Athens, Ga. rockers Futurebirds perform seven songs at the Paste Party in Austin during last March’s...

Minneapolis singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith gives off a vibe that is less ‘90s alt-radio and more ’60s pop. On his third album, The Reluctant Graveyard, Messersmith showed his love for Beach Boys...

Music is usually a big part of parties, but its involvement in Maria Taylor’s new video is awesomely ridiculous. Fifteen musicians gather around a room to perform a complete version of Taylor’s...

In 1978, with their reputation starting to dwindle among music critics, and punk rock threatening to eliminate any cultural significance they had left, The Rolling Stones released Some Girls....

The Motels held court in the red-hot L.A. club scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, where bands like the Go Gos, Mötley Crüe, and the Chili Peppers were also emerging. They were fronted by singer...