2.19.2013

Over the past decade, recording technology has become cheap and accessible to the point where anyone with a basement and a little bit of self-taught know-how can put together and disseminate a decent...

Last summer’s Oscar-nominated hit Moonrise Kingdom is a perfect example of the importance of storytelling in film. How one tells a story determines how one makes a film, and Roman Coppola has spent...

It might sound colorful, possibly action-packed. But no, says soulful British diva Jessie Ware, growing up the daughter of renowned BBC TV investigative journalist John Ware wasn’t what you’d imagine....

The way that Rodney Crowell comes across is as a man who lives modestly or simply, in a cove, off the coast of a sparkling ocean. He seems like a man who’s young for his age and wise beyond his years....

After 30 years and 15 albums, you could expect an artist to return to familiar topics. With Push the Sky Away, though, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (even...

Two tracks into Jamie Lidell, it sounds like player’s finished. Cooked. A-Rod. Last we heard, the Brit-soul radical fell on black days, moping out of the uneven Compass with an uncanny take on the...

Please don’t let Sallie Ford’s demure appearance and thick-rimmed specs fool you. Though she looks like she belongs either behind the desk of a...

The concept behind Mark Kozelek’s new record—take metal songs, punk songs, classic-rock and pop songs and deliver ’em slow and soft, accompanied only by stripped-nekkid acoustic guitar—is really kind...

There’s something fantastically empowering about assuming alternate identities—all the “should I should I should I’s” slough away and unseal a second skin wherein mimicry can become proficiency can...

It’s a strange notion that happiness can be packaged and bought like a bottle of ketchup. But in order for Chileans to overthrow their dictatorship in a 1988 election, this is what had to...

As Steven Soderbergh’s distinguished career winds down—just one Liberace biopic forthcoming for HBO—it becomes virtually impossible to not reflect on the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s staggeringly...

Masterfully beguiling, Like Someone in Love is a little gem of a film that explores how relationships and roles change depending on the needs, circumstances and desires of the people involved. Much...

Just when you thought you were done with the perennial teenage supernatural romance, it’s back! Oh yes, and with many more yet to come. For those still in denial that the bookstores are crawling with...

Less John McClane than James Bond, the fifth installment in the iconic Die Hard franchise puts our favorite maverick cop where he’s never been before: overseas and on his heels. Twenty-five years...

Melissa McCarthy presents a familiar problem. The comedienne du jour who made her bones in Bridesmaids and the television series Mike & Molly is a force of funny, a comet that everyone is trying to...

Parks and Recreation has been one of the most soft-hearted, optimistic shows on television since its second season. Events in the show do turn out for the best, and characters working their hardest...

Comedy is so subjective that it’s difficult to define why exactly something works or doesn’t work—either you like it or you don’t, and frequently there’s no way of explaining why. Unfortunately, the...

If Shane was the example of how the zombie apocalypse can change a man for the worse, Daryl has become an example of how it can also change a man for the better. Freed of his asshole brother and an...

Aliens: Colonial Marines is an idiotic idea for a video game. Nothing about the game’s concept should work. It’s not just a game based on a movie (which should immediately doom it to the bargain bin),...

When Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP hit the App Store in 2011, many didn’t know quite what to do with it. Here was a mobile game that was a serious, avant-garde art game that attempted some...

There’s something seductive about an impossible project … and what would seem more impossible at first glance than The Graphic Canon? In our age, the...

Pyyramids, the musical project of Tim Nordwind (OK GO) and Drea Smith (He Say/She Say), recently released a few tracks as a preview to their forthcoming album Brightest Darkest Day. The full-length...

After a highly successful debut album and, more recently, a hit UK tour, singer-songwriter Bobby Long is preparing to release sophomore album Wishbone. This latest album was produced by Ted Hutt (Old...

It wasn’t long ago that we got our first listen of The Spinto Band’s new album Cool Cocoon. In support of the album’s release, the band’s posted a charming, stop-motion (and breakfast-inspired) video...