Jeremy Messersmith Plays SXSW
Minneapolis singer/songwriter Jeremy Messersmith gives off a vibe that is less ‘90s alt-radio and more ’60s pop. On his third album, The Reluctant Graveyard, Messersmith showed his love for Beach Boys harmonies and elegant folk narratives in the Paul Simon/Joan Baez vein. Check out Messersmith's SXSW six-song performance at the Paste Party in Austin last March. read more
Found in: Featured VideosJohn Prine: Innocent Days
"[My wife] got a dumpster—and sent me to the garage," says John Prine "Boxes from my first marriage, boxes from my second marriage… boxes from before I moved to Tennessee. Boxes and boxes and boxes… and in one of them…" were several reel-to-reel tapes, long forgotten. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesThe Artist
Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist opens—in a nod, perhaps, to the OSS 117 French spy spoofs he made with actor Jean Dujardin—on a silent action movie in progress. As the hero escapes his torturers on-screen, the camera pulls back to reveal the orchestra, the audience, the grand, glamorous theater, and star George Valentin (Dujardin) photographed dramatically backstage against his own giant image. When the credits roll, our ears are met with … silence.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsReigning Sound: Abdication… For Your Love
Reigning Sound is a band whose time has come. For 10 years now, Greg Cartwright and myriad bandmates have released consistently great music for the cream of the garage/punk label crop (Sympathy for the Record Industry, In the Red, Goner), but calling them a garage or punk band feels drastically limited in scope. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Rolling Stones - "Miss You" (Live)
Watch The Rolling Stones perform their Some Girls opener "Miss You" live at the Hampton Coliseum in 1981. read more
Found in: Featured VideosAnother Happy Day
It may be true, as Leo Tolstoy said, that “all happy families resemble one another, [but] each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” There’s enough unhappiness surrounding the family at the center of Sam Levinson’s Another Happy Day, however, that anyone who has ever experienced any familial dysfunction is likely to see a little bit of themselves or their relatives in the film’s darkly compelling story.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsMarvelous Darlings: Single Life
If you’ve heard of this, it’s probably because you heard Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook is a part of it. That much is true. Depending on what websites you read, you may have also heard that this band, Marvelous Darlings, brandishes “Yellow Pills-worthy hooks shot through with an extra dose of snottiness” or is “killer shit” that “walks the lines between garage, powerpop, and punk.” That last statement is true, about the line-walking, but the hooks are largely absent, and that’s a major problem. A cursory glance at the finest purveyors of this type of music, from Gentleman Jesse to... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Spits: The Spits
Real talk: If you know who The Spits are, you already own this. So, for the uninitiated, let's run through some fun facts, shall we? read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsMelancholia
Melancholia is Lars Von Trier’s lush, epic ode to the complexity of human life and the suffering that, he believes, must inherently accompany it. The film establishes a series of seemingly firm dichotomies—life versus death, good versus evil, logic versus chaos—only to subvert them and demonstrate the irrelevancy of their distinction. The characters are forced to find a calm and a power in living under the looming threat of apocalypse, and an acceptance in returning to nothing. Through the exploration of the physical and emotional lives of his two heroines, sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Von Trier... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsA Dangerous Method
A Dangerous Method opens in Zurich in 1904 as we follow a horse-drawn carriage containing a raving Keira Knightley up to a large sanitarium, where she then begins treatment for her violent episodes in the care of Carl Jung, played by Michael Fassbender. Jung employs the new and “dangerous” method in question for her therapy, considered pretty radical for the time: conversation.... read more
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