Garbage
Initially, 2001 looked like a banner year for peppy techno-rock quartet Garbage. Still swooning from the alterna-chart success of its eponymous 1995 debut... read more
Deana Carter
Carter torched the industry, selling five-million copies of her debut, 1995’s Did I Shave My Legs For This? Spawning three number-one singles... read more
International Comics
Reading a translated work often involves figuring out where the author is coming from. Why do the characters behave the way they do? Is it a French thing?... read more
Chrystal’s Ray McKinnon
It’s not every day that your first film wins an Academy Award. Of course, not everybody is setting out to change... read more
Female Characters in Comics
Every Thursday—New Comics Day—dozens of guys filed in to pick up titles from Marvel and DC, peruse the independent offerings... read more
Demystifying The Moaners
She’s fronted ultra-creepy Bloodshot Records outfit Trailer Bride for five albums, spent seven formative years with her... read more
Damien Jurado
With Jurado, what you see is what you—unapologetically—get. But amidst a pop culture of junkies addicted to a diet of empty entertainment... read more
The Doves
Jimi Goodwin, the affable, bearded bassist/singer with Mancunian trio the Doves, leans forward in his seat for an endearing moment of honesty. read more
John Doe
The energy in the cramped, sweaty, sold-out San Francisco nightclub is positively kinetic, just waiting for a spark to set it off. read more
Charlie Chaplin
For a good part of the 20th century Charlie Chaplin’s disheveled, mustachioed character might’ve been... read more
Frank Miller
Historically, DC Comics had offered the traditional heroes of childhood legend, but Miller’s re-imagining of Batman danced along the fine line... read more
The Shojo Must Go On
Here’s my dilemma: While browsing Borders for manga (Japanese comics), do I act my 31 years, pretending to shop for a nonexistent niece or nephew... read more
The Me Regeneration
’80s music is a dicey subject. For a music critic, it’s fraught territory; you can only cop to so much cheese-pop admiration and remain aesthetically trusted... read more
The Dog Whisperer
Dave Matthews is on a quest. It’s a little artistic and a little spiritual, and its one he insists he’s been on for years. But with a major film role... read more
Hal Hartley
In The Girl From Monday, sex is a commodity, profits come before ethics and anyone who quesItions the system is a revolutionary... read more
New Century Coolbooks
Out of the dark night, a hero emerges to save the faltering rhythms of pop cache! A hero uniquely suited to the needs of a populace... read more
Buster Keaton's Vaudeville
Buster Keaton’s genius is both obviously apparent and exquisitely subtle... read more
Constantine
At the L.A. press junket for action-horror extravaganza Constantine, the excitement over Keanu Reeves’ press conference overshadowed... read more
Mary Gauthier
Thibodaux, La., native Mary Gauthier’s song “Wheel Inside the Wheel”—from her new album Mercy Now—is rich with references to the colorful lifestyle... read more
The Kills
A mixing console is an unlikely subject for an urban legend, but Jamie Hince—aka Hotel, the six-string-slinging half of U.K. blues-punk duo The Kills—was intrigued enough... read more
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