Cody App Review

By Monica Villa at 10:20 AM on April 17, 2013

The least intimidating fitness coach you'll ever encounter.  read more

Futurebirds: Baba Yaga

By Mark Rozeman at 5:01 PM on April 16, 2013

On their sophomore release from, Athens, Ga.-based group Futurebirds stand as a band confident in its sound and skilled in their delivery. Yet, they also come across as a band in need of stretching their boundaries.  read more

Iron & Wine: Ghost on Ghost

By Douglas Heselgrave at 4:44 PM on April 16, 2013

The days when Sam Beam ushered in a whole new era of DIY indie lo-fi music with records like the hollow and chilling The Creek Drank the Cradle seem further away than ever after hearing Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine’s lush and layered new album.   read more

I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became An Icon by Toure

By Elias Leight at 4:12 PM on April 16, 2013

Can any book really do justice to the musician Prince? It’s doubtful. But an increasing number of authors have been giving it a try in recent years.  read more

Born Ruffians: Birthmarks

By Beca Grimm at 4:07 PM on April 16, 2013

Luke Lalonde is an artist in his mid-20s, and it's confusing!  read more

Willie Nelson & Family: Let's Face the Music and Dance

By Stephen M. Deusner at 3:16 PM on April 16, 2013

Family has been backing Willie Nelson for longer than you’ve been alive. The group first showed up on 1971’s Willie Nelson & Family and have toured with him off and on for four decades, enabling his intuitive jumps between country and jazz, pop standards and Western Swing jams.  read more

Thee Oh Sees: Floating Coffin

By Beca Grimm at 3:07 PM on April 16, 2013

Thee Oh Sees dropped another heady psych joint with Floating Coffin. It stitches psychotic school dance vibes among the surf garage in a hurried splendor.  read more

Dead Confederate: In The Marrow

By Evan Rytlewski at 2:49 PM on April 16, 2013

Dead Confederate’s Southern grunge would feel haunted even if they didn’t intend it to, given the eerie echoes of Kurt Cobain in singer Hardy Morris’s pained voice.  read more

The Thermals: Desperate Ground

By Mark Lore at 2:20 PM on April 16, 2013

For just over a decade The Thermals have stuck to their scrappy, good-timin’ punk formula.  read more

Jessie Ware: Devotion

By Philip Cosores at 1:31 PM on April 16, 2013

Eight months after the release of her debut LP in her native UK, Jessie Ware is finally getting a proper physical release in America for Devotion with four bonus tracks added to the original recording and one track altered due to legal complications.  read more

Pharrell: Places And Spaces I've Been by Pharrell Williams

By Elias Leight at 12:49 PM on April 16, 2013

What do Buzz Aldrin, an astronaut famous for walking on the moon, and the musician Pharrell Williams, famous for his work as a member of the production group the Neptunes, have in common?   read more

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito

By Dan Weiss at 12:04 PM on April 16, 2013

People who can’t understand why “Mosquito” is the title track of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ fourth album are thinking too big.  read more

The Flaming Lips: The Terror

By Wyndham Wyeth at 11:52 AM on April 16, 2013

Some would argue that we all have a dark side.  read more

Jonny Fritz: Dad Country

By Stephen M. Deusner at 11:37 AM on April 16, 2013

Country music loves a smartass.  read more

Defiance Pilot Review

By Josh Jackson at 1:27 AM on April 16, 2013

The best science fiction not only stirs our imagination but offers a reflection back to the plain, old Earth that we live in today.  read more

The Good Wife Review: "Rape: A Modern Perspective" (Episode 4.20)

By Amy Amatangelo at 4:19 PM on April 15, 2013

After a rocky first half, The Good Wife is poised to end its season on a creative high.  read more

Game of Thrones Review - "Walk of Punishment" (Episode 3.3)

By Josh Jackson at 10:13 AM on April 15, 2013

Sometimes Game of Thrones can be masterful at capturing the meat of George R. R. Martin's dense novels in a few key scenes.  read more

Mad Men Review: "The Collaborators" (Episode 6.03)

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 1:36 AM on April 15, 2013

All's fair in love and war—but what about when you're not sure which one you're dealing with?  read more

The Angels’ Share

By Annlee Ellingson at 11:14 PM on April 12, 2013

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share revisits the themes the prolific director first explored in 1969’s Kes and later in 2002’s Sweet Sixteen. With the number of unemployed young people reaching more than a million in Britain, here is a heist comedy set in the harsh reality of contemporary Glasgow, where youth who get off to a rough start see no way out and harbor no hope for the future. In an indirect indictment of a society that fails them, a small crew of petty criminals gets a fresh start...  read more

It’s a Disaster

By Curtis Woloschuk at 10:53 PM on April 12, 2013

“Are you familiar with The Rapture?” “The band or the Blondie song?” This is the way the world ends in writer-director Todd Berger’s sophomore feature: Not with a bang but with a pop culture reference....  read more