Green Day: Dos!

Green Day: <i>Dos!</i>

"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

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School of Seven Bells: Put Your Sad Down

School of Seven Bells: <i>Put Your Sad Down</i>

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

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Punch Brothers: Ahoy!

Punch Brothers: <i>Ahoy!</i>

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

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Oneida: A List of the Burning Mountains

Oneida: <i>A List of the Burning Mountains</i>

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

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The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music by Dylan Jones

<i>The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music</i> 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

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The Babies: Our House on the Hill

The Babies: <i>Our House on the Hill</i>

Everything in The Babies’ “career” up to this point has felt very much like a side project.  read more

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The Paris Review Interviews: Volumes I-IV

<i>The Paris Review Interviews: Volumes I-IV</i>

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

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Clinic: Free Reign

Clinic: <i>Free Reign</i>

Over the past 15 years, Clinic have carved out a distinctive niche in the rock ’n’ roll landscape.  read more

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El Perro Del Mar: Pale Fire

El Perro Del Mar: <i>Pale Fire</i>

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

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How I Met Your Mother Review: "Splitsville" (Episode 8.06)

<i>How I Met Your Mother</i> Review: "Splitsville" (Episode 8.06)

The Autumn of Breakups continues in the latest 'How I Met Your Mother'.   read more

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