Green Day: Dos!
"I'm too sick to throw up," sings Billie Joe Armstrong on "Lazy Bones," a hard-hitting gem on Green Day's 10th studio album. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsSchool of Seven Bells: Put Your Sad Down
Following up the chilly, gothic-tinged electro-pop of this year's well-named Ghostory, School of Seven Bells (currently duo Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza) have gotten even chillier and more gothic with the Put Your Sad Down EP. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsPunch Brothers: Ahoy!
Having one of your songs covered by Punch Brothers is clearly an honor—it's almost impossible to round up a more talented group of players in any genre. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsOneida: A List of the Burning Mountains
Armed with one of the more respected back catalogs in the realm of ambient art-rock, Oneida has begun to transcend the tenets of the repetitive, psychedelic noise mishmash they helped usher into New York’s underground in the late ‘90s. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music by Dylan Jones
While there will always be a place for dry, fact-choked reference books like The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, they fail to capture the pop-music listening experience as it undeniably is—subjective. read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsThe Babies: Our House on the Hill
Everything in The Babies’ “career” up to this point has felt very much like a side project. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Paris Review Interviews: Volumes I-IV
In the years since I began to publish fiction, fresh-faced young dreamers and writing wannabes, their numbers like grains of sand on the beaches, have approached me at conferences, coffee shops, bars, readings, libraries, restaurants and signings. read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsClinic: Free Reign
Over the past 15 years, Clinic have carved out a distinctive niche in the rock ’n’ roll landscape. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsEl Perro Del Mar: Pale Fire
In Nabokov’s Pale Fire, the title refers not just to the 999-line poem at the center of the novel, but also to the poet’s peculiar habit of burning each prior draft of his completed verse in the “pale fire” of an incinerator. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsHow I Met Your Mother Review: "Splitsville" (Episode 8.06)
The Autumn of Breakups continues in the latest 'How I Met Your Mother'. read more
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