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
Found in: Culture, FeaturesThe Low Anthem Covers All the Bases
Tinker and Evers. Reese and Robinson. Trammel and 
Whitaker. All of baseball’s great double-play duos moved in a way that was almost musical. Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesThe Welcome Wagon: Keepers of the Faith Thrive in the Hipster's Den
Manhattan might have St. Patrick’s, Trinity and St. John the Divine, yet it’s Brooklyn that’s called “the borough of churches.” Climbing up from the G Train... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesLife, 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
Found in: Movies, FeaturesGeoff Nicholson
Geoff Nicholson’s latest encyclopedic investigation into an ordinary... read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsOn 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
Found in: Movies, FeaturesMark Barrowcliffe
Around 1975, my cousins and I invented the core element of... read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsThe Killers: Day & Age
To be fair, the success of Brandon Flowers and co. has always... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsCreedence Clearwater Revival: 40th Anniversary Edition Reissues
Creedence Clearwater Revival (79)Bayou Country (94)Green River (96)Willy and the Poor Boys (87)Cosmo’s Factory (90)Pendulum (68)Four decades later, CCR’s classic albums sip like the smoothest of ’shineCreedence Clearwater Revival was a commercial juggernaut, with nine Top 10 hits between 1969-71, even outselling The Beatles in 1969. Although encamped right across the bay from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, CCR never injected the slightest hint of peace, love and understanding into its canon. The band had a different inspiration. The strange subterranean world of an imagined South—twisted, eerie and nefarious—inflamed John Fogerty’s mind with images of voodoo ceremonies under gnarled trees dripping with... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsSigns of Life 2008: Best Music Scene - Denton, Texas
“Best Music Scene.” It’s a slightly absurd claim and unprovable to boot. But before you fire off that missive defending [insert your city here] as more vital and creative than Denton, allow me to refine the argument: Denton, Texas, is simply the paradigm of a healthy music community.... read more
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