Interview From the Vault: Bruce Springsteen, 1978

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 6:23 PM on March 9, 2012

After his monumental Born To Run was released in 1975, Springsteen was sent on a whirlwind tour of publicity. With the release of 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town, Springsteen was under the management of John Landau and seemed entirely rejuvenated.  read more

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Listening To My Life: Genesis In the Desert

By Carter Tanton at 4:00 PM on March 9, 2012

Carter Tanton reflects on a road trip with Genesis on the stereo for our latest Listening to My Life essay.  read more

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Delocated's Jon Glaser: Masked And Anonymous

By Michael Tedder at 6:05 PM on March 8, 2012

Halfway through his senior year of college, communications major, Gene Wilder fan and hopeful comedic actor Jon Glaser took a break to trek up to Chicago. He called the city’s Second City Theatre, a legendary breeding ground for comedy stars, to see if they had any auditions for their prestigious troupe. They did. So with a few acting classes under his belt, he tried out. He didn’t get it, but that didn’t matter. “One of the producers in the room pulled me aside after auditioning and was very encouraging. It was actually a pivotal moment in my life,” says Glaser....  read more

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Tim and Eric Want To Make You Squirm

By Sean Edgar and Josh Jackson at 1:30 PM on March 8, 2012

After spreading their twisted, lo-fi humor to cartoons, music videos, commercials, talk shows and 50 episodes of their Adult Swim series, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, it was only a matter of time before Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim tackled a feature-length movie.  read more

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The Honeydogs

By Tom Lanham at 12:58 PM on March 8, 2012

Starting with an eponymous debut in ‘95, the Minnesotans have issued brilliant little gems like Seen A Ghost (‘97), 10,000 Years (‘03), Sunshine Committee (‘09), and the great new breakup-themed What Comes After, to no trumpeted national fanfare.  read more

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Tim Fite: A Musical Misfit Settles Down

By Ryan Reed at 9:05 AM on March 8, 2012

Ever since he first stumbled upon the polarizing counter-culture fringes of pop music—arriving in a singularly off-putting, genre-mashing, artistically drunken stupor, Brooklyn chameleon Tim Fite has never exactly...“fit in.  read more

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Delta Spirit: Marking a Time

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 9:47 AM on March 7, 2012

Delta Spirit’s third LP, a self-titled effort out March 13 via Rounder Records, marks a clear of a departure for the band sonically, one brought on perhaps by line-up changes and new locales.  read more

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Denison Witmer: The Ones Who Wait

By Kristen Blanton at 4:27 PM on March 6, 2012

Denison Witmer's ninth studio album was met with the unexpected life is so notorious of - a jilting turn in his fathers cancer and the subsequent loss of his battle put Witmer in a dwelling of intimate reflection. Mid-recording, of what was to be an EP with Devin Greenwood, the singer-songwriter dropped his work and journeyed back home to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a period grieving and remembrance.   read more

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Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 by Christopher Wilkinson

By Evan Minsker at 3:18 PM on March 6, 2012

West Virginia is arguably the most geographically muddled state in the Union. Some Northerners think of the state as “the South.” I remember Chris Matthews referring to it off-handedly as a “Confederate” state several years ago in a “red state” election round-up. Some Southerners think of it as “the North.” Again, that’s sort of fair considering the state seceded from Virginia to join the Union during the Civil War. Either way, West Virginia sits firmly in the Appalachia region. The irony of that term—Appalachia—is that it comprises a few common-knowledge Southern states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Carolinas),...  read more

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Boy

By Aaron Belz at 2:41 PM on March 6, 2012

“Can you stop calling me ‘dad’? It sounds weird,” isn’t a line you’d expect from a feel-good coming-of-age movie. And the suggestion that follows, “How about ‘Shogun’? I like that,” puts Boy squarely in the realm of comedy. But Boy isn’t exactly a comedy, even though it will make you laugh, and it isn’t a feel-good movie. It’s a movie about crushing failure, personal identity, and the possibility of hope as experienced in one Māori family, circa 1984....  read more

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