Tiger High: The Best of What's Next

By Matt Wake at 1:13 PM on September 21, 2012

Recently, at the Poplar Lounge in the band's hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Tiger High singer Jake Vest peeled off a savage guitar solo at a point in a song where such a thing usually doesn’t occur.  read more

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Sleepwalk With Me: A Conversation with Birbiglia, Maron, Glass & Kane

By Michael Dunaway at 12:50 PM on September 20, 2012

Mike Birbiglia’s new film is one of the best feel-good stories of 2012’s film scene.  read more

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Aimee Mann: Pop Song as Pathology

By Stephen M. Deusner at 9:12 AM on September 20, 2012

It’s hard to imagine Aimee Mann vegging out on the couch in yoga pants and flip-flops and watching cheesy reality TV.  read more

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Jim Hamilton: Painting a Picture With Just a Few Brushstrokes

By Austin L. Ray at 6:15 PM on September 19, 2012

Like a lot of comics, Jim Hamilton didn't exactly know what he was doing when he stumbled head-first into the world of comedy.  read more

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Dinosaur Jr.: The Sky's The Limit

By Jason Schneider at 2:27 PM on September 19, 2012

Most fans probably wouldn’t have wagered more than a six-pack that a reunion of the founding line-up would have now outlasted its initial four-year lifespan, let alone produced three of the best records in the overall Dinosaur Jr. catalog.  read more

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Aimee Mann: Charmer

By Steve LaBate at 12:48 PM on September 19, 2012

This album is full of horrible, heartbreaking things. Things that happen not just to bad people but good people, too. Of course, by the time a few of Charmer’s songs have passed by, the lines between good and bad become so blurred that the infinite subjective becomes the only rational paradigm.  read more

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Half Light: David Lynch and the Cruelty of Dreams

By Shane Ryan at 12:22 PM on September 19, 2012

Earlier this week, I was in a park with my stepfather.  read more

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The Killers: Battle Born

By Dan Weiss at 11:29 AM on September 19, 2012

Don’t underestimate The Killers, a multi-platinum American band who functions as a synthesizer like LCD Soundsystem or DJ Shadow. Forget their mildly dance-punk origins and they’re an antenna to the uncool, a short wave radio station that only plays “heartland rock” (as Wikipedia says) and synthy schlock worthier of John Hughes than M83.   read more

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Grizzly Bear: Back to the Yellow House

By Max Blau at 11:28 AM on September 19, 2012

After a false start in West Texas, Grizzly Bear returned to the yellow home of frontman Ed Droste’s mother in Cape Cod, Mass.—the makeshift studio for the Brooklyn band’s first album as a four-piece and inspiration for that album’s name Yellow House.   read more

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Dinosaur Jr.: I Bet on Sky

By Jeff Gonick at 9:38 AM on September 19, 2012

I got into Dinosaur Jr. in an ass-backwards way. In the early 2000s I watched The O.C. because I thought it would offer a conversation starter with girls I didn't know how to start a conversation with.  read more

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