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For Your Consideration pulls off the neat trick of skewering the movie industry while remaking it in its own image. The latest ensemble comedy by Christopher Guest and company...
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Menopause the Musical. Set in Bloomingdale's department store, this play unites four contrasting female characters an Iowa housewife, an executive, a soap star, and a...
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Girls who like boys who like boys
Judging books by their covers: Most yaoi manga isn't as extreme as the examples shown. Way to scare people into thinking all yaoi manga is...
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I recently spent a week in New York thinking I was not going to the music industry clusterfuck CMJ. I was visiting my sister, checking out the nightlife, and eating too much...
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When one considers a red-blooded, macho, flag-waving, Bush-voting American country music fan looking at a gorgeous blonde who also happens to make his kind of music, one...
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No rock-star kid ever made a more endearing record than Into the Sun, Sean Lennon's 1998 debut, a Double Fantasy for hipsters produced by his Japanese girlfriend, Cibo Matto's...
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Having animals act like humans on film is a storytelling device as old as time, so maybe it's a little unfair to get tired of it just now. But back in the day, wise old owls...
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On this Western Massachusetts band's fifth LP, the group finally cements its status as the American Teenage Fanclub. Like that Scottish act, Joe Pernice and pals have released...
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Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr2006@yahoo.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard...
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Few people have heard Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural (latest SoundScan figures show it went rust), the Psychic Paramount's 2005 debut full-length, but it's one of this...
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Things fall apart. Yet despite the dips and valleys in life, in the end, I believe that the universe evens itself out. I suppose this is the sort of thinking that someone who...
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By Brock Keeling, Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Sam Prestianni Published:
November 15, 2006
Bloomington, Ind., label Jagjaguwar hosts an impressive roster of rootsy, Neil Young-indebted indie rock. Followers of the Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops stronghold on...
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The '90s were some glorious years of heady, experimental beatmaking, with the likes of DJs Shadow, Krush, Cam, and the Russian-born Vadim ruling the scene. The latter's...