Community's Donald Glover: Class Act

By Rachael Maddux on 1:30 PM on October 22, 2009

Hometown: Stone Mountain, Ga. Show: Community For Fans Of: 30 Rock, Upright Citizens Brigade, Encyclopedia Brown Donald Glover has never personally experienced the world of junior colleges laid out in NBC’s new sitcom, Community, but the 26-year-old wunderkind—who plays dim-bulb jock Troy—finds the premise familiar. “It’s about forcing people to interact with each other that you normally wouldn’t hang out with,” he says. “That was college for me.”...  read more

Charlyne Yi: Geek Love

By Michael Saba on 3:00 PM on September 30, 2009

In recent years, there’s been no shortage of well-soundtracked "alternative" romantic comedies, and most have hinged on a very particular archetype: the unassuming nerd girl...  read more

Vivian Girls: Love, Actually

By Austin L. Ray on 11:30 AM on September 24, 2009

"Everyone can relate to a love song, no matter how personal it is to the writer,” says Cassie Ramone...  read more

Aravind Adiga: Reading Between the Streets

By Henry Freedland on 10:00 AM on July 31, 2009

Aravind Adiga had just returned to India after years in Anglophone countries when he changed his mind about what to write...  read more

Andrei Rodionov: Russia's Slam King

By Rachel Dovey on 10:00 AM on July 16, 2009

Andrei Rodionov is missing part of his right ear. His Mr. Clean-like dome is barely covered by the shadow of a crew cut...  read more

Eduardo Recife Finds His Footing

By Brooke Hatfield on 11:30 AM on July 13, 2009

One of Eduardo Recife’s earliest artistic memories is of a robbery. One night after dark, he and a friend were midway through their first attempt at pixaçao, a Brazilian...  read more

AA Bondy: Flying Solo

By Kate Kiefer on 11:15 AM on June 4, 2009

It’s been 10 years since Scott Bondy garnered countless Kurt Cobain comparisons as frontman of the rock band Verbena...  read more

Growing Pains: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

By Nick Marino on 3:00 PM on June 2, 2009

On a Monday morning in early spring, Kip Berman is in New York's East Village, waiting for brunch and discussing his voice...  read more

I Was a King: The Royal We

By Rachael Maddux on 2:00 PM on May 26, 2009

Considering their regal name and tuneful sound...  read more

Loch Lomond: Gorgeous in the Gorge

By Rachael Maddux on 12:05 PM on May 22, 2009

"I don’t usually go to festival shows unless I’m playing, because I feel jealous,” admits sheepish Loch Lomond frontman Ritchie Young...  read more

Prodigal Rock: The Love Language Comes Home Again

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 PM on May 18, 2009

I always wondered what kind of situations benefit a songwriter,” recalls 28-year-old Stuart McLamb. “Do you need to just do a bunch of drugs..."  read more

The Haunting of Laura Gibson

By Rachel Dovey on 4:00 PM on May 15, 2009

Portland, Ore.-based singer/songwriter Laura Gibson wrote her new album, Beasts of Seasons, underneath a cemetery. Her basement apartment was built into...  read more

Emergent: Marc Fitten

By Charles McNair on 2:30 PM on May 1, 2009

The year’s best new European writer may very well be an American. He’s Marc Fitten, age 34. Born in Brooklyn to Panamanian parents and raised in Da Bronx...  read more

Nathan Fouts Misses His Wife

By Jason Killingsworth on 12:00 PM on April 9, 2009

Remember that flannel-wearing loner from high-school algebra class? The one who never paid attention, and who staved off boredom by doodling elaborate comic-art illustrations...  read more

The Tales and Details of Hello Saferide

By Henry Freedland on 12:00 PM on April 8, 2009

Swedish chanteuse Annika Norlin—the wordsmith and vocalist behind adorable indie-pop act Hello Saferide—named her newest album...  read more

Here Comes the Son: Justin Townes Earle Makes a Name for Himself

By Rachael Maddux on 1:45 PM on March 5, 2009

"There’s a whole class of kids that have grown up in Nashville that didn’t want anything to do with the music business..."  read more

Wild Light: Burning Bright

By Corey Dubrowa on 8:00 AM on March 3, 2009

The same night their old chums in Arcade Fire are guesting at a party for President Obama’s staff in Washington, D.C., New Hampshire quartet Wild Light is playing at the...  read more

Beatbeat Whisper Grows Up and Plays On

By Henry Freedland on 1:00 PM on February 12, 2009

Siblings Ayla and Davyd Nereo keep few boundaries between them. As they answer questions in chorus, it’s easy to imagine their childhood in California’s sylvan Sonoma County, sharing the family piano...  read more

Five Nights With Shugo Tokumaru

By Rachael Maddux on 3:30 PM on February 11, 2009

Tokyo singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s dazzling third album, Exit, features lyrics based on dreams he’s had, somnambulant wanderings brought to life by his whimsical musicality...  read more

David Berkeley Keeps Moving

By Josh Jackson on 10:00 AM on January 30, 2009

Tucked between a cellist and a trumpeter on stage at Decatur, Ga., acoustic hotspot Eddie’s Attic, singer/songwriter David Berkeley is singing like he means it...  read more