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The beetle was huge, nearly three inches long and almost as wide, a gorgeous lime-green specimen so iridescent it could’ve passed for a scarab... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesGeorge Pelecanos' Capitol City Soul
Washington, D.C., was a tense place to be in 1968. White suburbanites generally viewed “the District line” as a sort of Berlin Wall... read more
Found in: Books, FeaturesBrian Wilson Remembers How To Smile
What would have happened if, as planned, The Beach Boys had released the Smile album in the summer of 1967? For starters, people would have been less impressed with The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesJoseph Arthur Comes Clean
It’s Friday the 13th, and Joseph Arthur’s luck is holding out. He’s pedaled his bicycle under threatening skies all the way from his home in Brooklyn’s industrial DUMBO neighborhood... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesKing of BBQ
In the midst of rehearsal, after I’d just finished my Elvis song, Jim Messina issued a threat... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesMetallica Deals With Its 'Monster'
While other artists were getting rich crooning power ballads in the ’80s, Metallica played fast and heavy, singing about war and alienation... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesBadly Drawn Boy
According to Damon Gough (a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy), the music industry thinks he’s over the hill. After recording music for seven years and releasing four albums... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesPatrice Leconte
Filmmaker Patrice Leconte talks about Intimate Strangers and his obsession with characters who transgress in order to find Liberation... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesOverthinking Jonathan Richman
Such is the preemptive genius of Jonathan Richman. Just when you want to write a nice tidy piece about his new album Not So Much to be Loved as to Love, he manages to include a song like “He Gave Us the Wine to Taste"... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesJimmy Cliff
Talk about calling in a few favors. For his first set in over six years, Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff wound up being backed by such stellar sidefolk as Sting, Annie Lennox, Wyclef Jean... read more
Found in: Music, Features
The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade…
The 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade
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Kim Taylor - Days Like this
Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Moon Song
Patrick Watson - Man Like You
Punch Brothers - Punch Brothers at CMJ
David Bazan - Hard To Be
Anya Marina - Whatever You Like
