Purling Hiss: Water on Mars
An even more classic-rock-minded product of the same Philadelphia scene that spawned Kurt Vile and The War on Drugs, Purling Hiss began as a solo project for Mike Polizze, whose crude, fuzz-addled self-recordings disguised some truly magnificent guitar work. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsLow: The Invisible Way
Having cemented their signature sound around the turn of the century, Low has spent the last decade branching out from it. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsSalvador Dalí: The Making of An Artist by Catherine Grenier
If our age may be characterized by a fascination with the outsized personality, the shameless shaman-showman, then Dalí is the prototype. read more
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Where Marnie Stern’s deeply wistful self-titled 2010 album was inspired by the death of a beloved ex-boyfriend, whose ghost hung over even the songs that weren’t explicitly about him, Stern’s follow-up is marked by a different kind of absence. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsPhosphorescent: Muchacho
Sitting down to listen to the latest from Phosphorescent, I armed myself with a blank notepad and a stack of CDs: Richard Buckner and Bonnie Prince Billy, American Music Club’s California and some early Chris Whitley. By the last reverberations of Muchacho’s closing hymn, my scribbled notes were buried beneath books by Malcolm Lowry and Barry Hannah and I’d pulled an entirely different pile of discs off the shelf: Blood On The Tracks, Joshua Tree, Grievous Angel and Robbie Robertson. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsA Short Ride: Remembering Barry Hannah by Louis Bourgeois, Adam Young and J.W. Young
Barry Hannah hunched over the stack of short stories. “OK, here’s one,” he said, pulling out a couple of pages, squinting through the swirling smoke of a cigarette. read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsJustin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience
From Mouseketeer to boy band heartthrob to MJ disciple to Timbaland sidekick to "Dick in a Box" crooner, Justin Timberlake has crammed more unpredictable brilliance into his career than any other pop star on the planet. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club: Specter at the Feast
On their 2001 debut, B.R.M.C., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club offered a song titled “Whatever Happened to my Rock and Roll (Punk Song);” an energetic and attitude-driven paradigm for what the band thought rock and roll should sound like, or at least the attitude that rock bands should possess. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsFrom Up on Poppy Hill
Adapted from the graphic novel by anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle) and directed by his son Goro (Tales from Earthsea), From Up on Poppy Hill is a lush and lyrical ode to a generation pivoting between the painful past and the promise of the future. Set in 1963 in the harbor city of Yokohama, the hand-drawn 2D ’toon captures a moment in time when Japan is still struggling to recover and rebuild in the wake of World War II while eagerly preparing for the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Against this backdrop, high schoolers Umi... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsRidiculous Fishing Review (iOS)
Ridiculous Fishing is one of the greatest titles a video game has ever had. read more
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