During a solo set at this year’s South by Southwest, alternative-rock icon J Mascis, with his signature long gray hair and large eyeglasses, sat serenely on a folding chair and revved up his plugged-in acoustic guitar.
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It’s a Tuesday afternoon. School is over for the day, but, in room 129 of South Bronx Prep, a group of MCs are moving a crowd. These artists aren’t performing a concert, though, they’re mentoring a group of school kids in the arts of rhyme and song creation as a part of an after school...
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I've never heard music like this—except in an elevator. Nhojj winds unusually smooth jazz with his castrato-like voice, an overflowing heart, and an
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Cavedoll's new album No Vertigo – one of ten albums released this year by the band – is a brilliant melding of different genres that represents the band perfectly. Depending on who's singing lead – Camden Chamberlain or his wife Vanessa – the sound can sway anywhere between an...
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Morgan Spurlock’s last film Super Size Me was entertaining and eye-opening. His latest film, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? Not so much. This documentary follows Spurlock on a tour of the Middle East as he searches for the most dangerous man on the planet while simultaneously embarking on...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall gives a new meaning to the phrase “laying it all out there.” Apatow Productions gives us yet another delightfully crass movie that is guaranteed to make you laugh or squirm, but most likely will make you do both.
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In Tales of the Out and the Gone, Amiri Baraka gives his readers the political situations, racial tensions, and frank language expected after so many decades of writing.
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The collapsing of the twin towers in this eloquently written novel signifies a most compelling, pellucid shift of events in characters’ lives.
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If you plan to see Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, who played at the Mercury Lounge on Tuesday, don't go expecting eye contact from the band, because they don't plan on providing any. The members stare at their guitars or look away during cursory banter between songs. It took the late-set...
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In some ways over the course of the past few years, Dan Bejar and his Destroyer compatriots have become the quiet, unsung kings of what some have described as "hyper literate indie rock." And while this label has no doubt stemmed from Bejar's labyrinthine lyricism, Destroyer has managed to counter...
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