Mail Pilot App Review
Though most of Mail Pilot’s features feel intuitive and impressive, they’re not perfect. read more
The Breeders: Last Splash LSXX
CONSUMER ALERT: This vastly expanded, packed-to-the-gills 20th anniversary reissue of The Breeders' Last Splash album contains exactly the same version of Last Splash that can currently be found crowding 99-cent CD bins all over the world. read more
Peals: Walking Field
There’s a song on Peals’ debut album called “Tiptoes In the Parlor,” a title that sums up the Baltimore two-piece’s sound, which is soft and inconspicuous. read more
A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
Jonathan Dee has always lent his luminous prose to the dissolution of once mighty cultural institutions. read more
Sam Amidon: Bright Sunny South
During every long journey there are moments of looking back, of breathing in the vast traveled landscape as an inspiration to tighten the straps and press onward. read more
pacificUV: After the Dream You Are Awake
“After the dream you are awake,” coo pacificUV’s Clay Jordan and Laura Solomon on the opening track of the Athens group’s newest offering. read more
Wild Nothing: Empty Estate EP
Where the 2000s saw an explosion of folk groups, the second decade of the new millennium has so far been characterized by a couple of great dreampop records and a lot of subpar ones. read more
How I Met Your Mother Review: "Something New" (Episode 8.24)
The eighth season finale of _How I Met Your Mother_ sure didn’t feel like a season finale. read more
Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle: Perils From the Sea
Some musicians just don’t want their music played in daytime. read more
John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts
John Grant is one of the most enigmatic, endearing vocalists making music today. read more
The Great American Jet Pack by Steve Lehto
Hydrogen-peroxide—expensive to produce, unstable in transport and fundamental to personal flight—pours from tanks through a tube, over a custom-made catalyst. read more
Wampire: Curiosity
There’s been no shortage of cutesy synth-pop bands sprouting up in Portland over the past few years. read more
Metro: Last Light (Multi-Platform)
Humanity finds a way in the post-apocalyptic Russian shooter Metro: Last Light. read more
Game of Thrones Review - "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" (Episode 3.7)
About 52 minutes into Episode Seven, I was all set to pronounce it the weakest of this season. And then...The dude went back to Harrenhal. read more
Rectify Review: "Drip, Drip" (Episode 1.05)
If Daniel is truly innocent, going to the house of the girl he was convicted of murdering at 3 a.m. and staring at her mother like a Peeping Tom might be a poor way to reinforce that innocence. read more
Mad Men Review: "Man with a Plan" (Episode 6.07)
There's that damned elevator again. read more
Family Tree Review: "The Box" (Episode 1.01)
If you're a Christopher Guest fan, you probably think you know what you're in for with Family Tree. read more
Maron Review: "Dead Possum" (Episode 1.02)
"Dead Possum," the second episode of comedian and podcast host Marc Maron’s new self-titled show on IFC, was a much more straightforward episode than last week’s premiere. read more
Community: "Advanced Introduction to Finality" (Episode 4.13)
"Advanced Introduction to Finality" was the perfect end to such a strange, bifurcated season of television. read more
The Great Gatsby
It may be impossible for The Great Gatsby to make it to the screen and still be The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is such a slippery endeavor, such a combination of dueling character perceptions and unseen incidents, that by the time a filmmaker materializes it, some of its power unavoidably vanishes. Of course, you lose some things and gain others any time you adapt one medium to another, but Gatsby is about a deep, hollow longing lurking behind glitz and glamor. When you put it on the screen, it’s easier to show the frills than the subtle notes... read more
