Monsters University
For a cheerful, fast-paced comedy, Monsters University touches on the unexpectedly knotty idea that some dreams may not be achievable, and your aspirations don’t always match up with your abilities. read more
This Is the End
Too often, Hollywood comedies aimed at a male audience skew more towards the single-digit side of the age scale. Yet there’s a pretty potent distinction between puerile and “late-juvenile” humor. The former—all fart, poop and pratfall—is the stuff that the eye rolls of girlfriends and wives is made of (not to mention a good portion of Adam Sandler and Kevin James’ careers). But the latter, done right, is an equal opportunity amuser. (Oh, eyes may still roll, but they do so while laughing.) In This Is the End, Seth Rogen, James Franco and their band of the mostly usual suspects... read more
Adventure Time Annual #1
Writers: Roger Langridge, Alex Cox, Bryce Carlson, Josh Williamson, Derek Fridolfs, Kory Bing, Sfé Monster Artists: Roger Langridge, Alex Cox, Dustin Nguyen, Jason Ho, Derek Fridolfs, Kory Bing, Sfé Monster Publisher: Boom! Release Date: May 29, 2013... read more
The Night of the Rabbit Review (PC/Mac)
Daedelic Entertainment's new point and click adventure takes its inspiration from Alice in Wonderland. read more
Austra: Olympia
Many note Katie Stelmanis’ voice when talking about Austra, and rightfully so, but to say it is “classically trained” is an undersell-and-a-half. read more
Overseas: Overseas
Overseas is a collaboration between David Bazan, Will Johnson and Matt and Bubba Kadane. read more
Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng
Rarely is literature as breathtakingly lyrical and searing in its imagery as Southern Cross the Dog, a novel by Bill Cheng. read more
Stephen Kellogg: Blunderstone Rookery
"You get what you pay for, and sometimes it's bad." So sings Stephen Kellogg on his seventh solo album, during the shiny folk-rock waltz of "The Best." As it turns out, he's very much right. read more
Spectrals: Sob Story
Chameleonic U.K. power-poppers Spectrals—the duo of brothers Louis and Will Jones—shed the slings and arrows siblinghood might present and focus on crafting some of the most heartfelt melodic pop since Big Star on their new LP, Sob Story. read more
John Vanderslice: Dagger Beach
Dagger Beach can, at times, feel a little out there—even for John Vanderslice. read more
Heliotropes: A Constant Sea
When Roky Erickson sang "I Walked With A Zombie" on his 1981 album with the Aliens, The Evil One, the drawling croak of the Texas psych-rock hero gave the impression of a man in recovery. He’d had his B-movie horror moment but gotten out alive. When Heliotropes covered the same song in the fall of 2012, Jessica Numsuwankijkul's dazed, disaffected singing made it seem like not only had she not escaped the walking dead—she’d become one of them. read more
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne
Seth Green seems an unlikely source for an academic discussion of the proliferation of modern tabloid journalism. But considering he began acting at age six and counts Macaulay Culkin as one of his closest friends, he has an unusually solid vantage point. read more
Sigur Rós: Kveikur
Sigur Rós has long provided a sort of hymnal template for the secular masses. read more
The Mantles: Long Enough to Leave
San Francisco is just going to have to be one of those places where the residual spirit of the Summer of Love saturates all creative endeavors until further notice. read more
Kanye West: Yeezus
The low-point on Yeezus, Kanye West's sixth album, is "I Am A God," a rhythmically rote electro-buzz that inflates Kanye's legendary ego to (literally) biblical proportions. read more
Mad Men Review: "The Quality of Mercy" (Episode 6.12)
We've seen this all before. read more
State of Decay Review (Xbox 360)
If Undead Labs really spends as much time thinking about how to realistically survive a zombie outbreak as they claim to, State of Decay should jive with a majority of what The Zombie Survival Guide says. read more
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
A Russian band had broadcasters, journalists and pundits saying dirty word on television, but their story was on the nightly news for less-than-humorous reasons. Three members of the punk anarchic-feminist group Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, were in custody for dissenting. Several talking heads discussed their odds of ending up in labor camps and whether their rights were violated. Pop stars came out in support, decrying the artistic censorship.... read more
Superman Unchained #1 by Scott Snyder & Jim Lee
Writer: Scott Snyder Artist: Jim Lee Publisher: DC Release Date: June 12, 2013... read more
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas
Writer: Jim Ottaviani Artist: Maris Wicks Publisher: First Second Release Date: June 11, 2013... read more
