They've Got the Neutron Bomb: Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Leonard Cohen and Harry Smith as the Four Horsemen
In their new book Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music, David Janssen and Edward Whitelock, two English profs at tiny Gordon College in Barnesville, Ga., document... read more
Asher Roth Sizes Up His Chances
Suburbia’s most promising rapper weighs in at 140 pounds... read more
Tibetan Film Speaks for Itself
Until recently, movies about Tibet haven’t wavered much from the formula established by Frank Capra’s 1937 epic Lost Horizon, in which plane-crash victims discover... read more
Rags for the Richest: A Film About Valentino
"Compared to us, the rest are making rags,” Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld whispered in the ear of Valentino Garavani... read more
No Laughing Matter: Steve Martin Makes a Banjo Record
When Steve Martin was 17 years old, he had a girlfriend—and the girlfriend had a father, and the father had a banjo... read more
True Grit: PJ Harvey and John Parish Team Up (Again) for a Rough New Record
It's been more than a dozen years since the release of... read more
My First... Indigo Girls
After self-releasing their debut album, Strange Fire, in 1987, folk-rock duo the Indigo Girls signed to major label Epic for another nine records, before putting one out with Hollywood Records... read more
Angus and Julia Stone Sail into Our Hearts
Surfboarding Australian folkie Angus Stone and his guitarist/vocalist older sister Julia... read more
On the Waterfront: Kevin Drew Directs Feist in Short Film
Midway into Feist’s 2007 breakthrough album The Reminder is a bewitching ballad called “The Water.” The track moves slowly, as if water itself, and its emotional resonance inspired Broken Social Scene... read more
Che Guevara Hates Steven Soderbergh
You bought the T-shirt—now go see the movie. That’s the logic Steven Soderbergh hopes will draw audiences to Che, his four-hour, Spanish-language revolutionary epic starring Benicio Del Toro... read more
Sing Sing: Antony Hegarty's Vocal Tips
Sometimes, when his performances are really on, Antony Hegarty enters a transcendent state “where you just feel like you’re aligned with all the stars and the heavens, and everything is exactly as it should be...” read more
The Notorious M.O.V.I.E.
The black Lincoln Town Car dispatched by the media conglomerate edges into rush-hour traffic with a hired driver, a publicist, a writer and a dude who looks a lot like Biggie Smalls... read more
Why is This Man Smiling? Because He’s Lil Wayne, and He Had a Pretty Decent 2008
The year’s most compelling rapper by far was Lil Wayne, the tongue-twisting New Orleans savant who never ceased to surprise... read more
Tool & Wine: Alt-rock Frontman Uncorks New Career
Behind the tasting bar of Mission Wines, a South Pasadena wine shop with hardwood floors, Maynard James Keenan is slurping his wine. No really, it’s his wine... read more
Life, Camera, Action: Movie Hopping While Rome Burns
David Lynch once called film “a magical medium that allows you to dream in the dark.” Walking the carpeted hallways and miniature lobbies of a Times Square megaplex, then, is like... read more
On Long Island, Memories of Harvey Milk Have Expired
The irony of Bay Shore Furriers and Leather Salon is that, while it’s the only building on the block that survived a fire six years ago, nobody seems to remember the lanky kid... read more
Life, the Universe and Everything: Spore Walks a Tightrope Between Creationism and Evolution
Will Wright makes God games—simulations that give players the power to create the world in their own... read more
Reconnaissance Man: Damon Albarn’s Musical Explorations
In a downtown Toronto park, Damon Albarn is discussing the finer points of composing a Chinese opera when a black squirrel snares his attention. “Do you know we’re eating squirrels...” read more
Dead Celebrity Author of the Month: Roberto Bolaño
Poet and novelist Roberto Bolaño wrote about strangulations, stabbings, rapes, drug deals, pistol-whippings and love gone wrong... read more
Straight Outta Brompton: N.W.A. and A Clockwork Orange
A Cliffs Notes summary of N.W.A.’s 1988 breakthrough Straight Outta Compton might look something like this: Senseless beatdowns. Misogyny-by-numbers. Gangland murder masquerading as casual, cruel bloodsport... read more
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