Allison Moorer
It’s a Friday in March and Manhattan is abuzz. Night has come and it’s happy hour in the lobby bar of Allison Moorer’s obnoxiously trendy 27th Street hotel, but she’s oblivious... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesLos Lobos
In an old brick building on the gritty end of Sunset Boulevard, the five members of Los Lobos are nearing the end of a day of TV and press interviews... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesMystery Is A Farce
Canadians are a funny bunch. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Candy, even the members of the Cowboy Junkies: all funny... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesJim Jarmusch
Roberto Benigni & Steven Wright, Iggy Pop & Tom Waits—just some of the delightful onscreen pairings in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesOn Being Human
When in conversation, people rarely hold each other’s gaze for more than a few seconds. There’s an intimacy in eye contact that’s typically too intense for us... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSwedish Cinema
The history of Swedish cinema is much richer than Hollywood’s appropriations. Home to the most theater screens per capita in all of Europe, Sweden makes the strongest case for the very concept of a national cinema... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesPedro the Lion
You’ve been lied to. Achilles Heel, the new album from Pedro the Lion, was supposed to be the anticipated and triumphant third act... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesVan Hunt
Strolling into Six Feet Under, a restaurant on Atlanta’s Eastside, Van Hunt looks like a jive-era GHOST summoned from the cemetery across the street... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesThe Magnetic Fields
Stephin Merritt certainly doesn’t fit the singer/songwriter stereotype. Had he been born 50 years earlier, he’d have been locking elbows with George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael... read more
Found in: Music, Featuresthe subdudes
Post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin once said, “In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.” But it was Thomas Edison who really hit the heart of creativity. When asked by a Harper’s journalist in 1934 what laboratory rules Edison wanted him to observe, Edison bristled, “Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish somep’n!” The subdudes surely qualify for mastery under Gauguin’s definition. They took their collective musical heritage of raucous Louisiana roots rock, shook it up in a gris-gris bag... read more
Found in: Music, Features
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