New York’s furriest on hit lists, bringing down the music industry and afternoon naps — this week, we’re visiting the city’s most infamous shop cats.
Read MoreNew York’s furriest on hit lists, bringing down the music industry and afternoon naps — this week, we’re visiting the city’s most infamous shop cats.
Read MoreA weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the
author reading: the Q&A. This week, Chuck Klosterman and Marc Spitz discuss the lifestyle of a rock critic in the early 90's.
Toys And Tiny Instruments is exactly what it sounds like: a seven-piece band with no shortage of ukuleles or child’s drums. I got in touch with lead singer Colin Summers to discuss how they got their unique sound, the process of recording their new album, and busking in Harvard Square.
Read MoreWhether you’re waiting on a desolate G-train platform or crossing the Williamsburg Bridge on the J, it’s easy to let your mind
wander on the MTA. Eventually, you can’t help but wonder: if this line was a
rapper, who would it be?
Read on for a selection of songs from the fevered brain of Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Chain and the Gang, etc.) and a firsthand account of a basement seance he conducted to promote his book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group.
Read MoreIf you're 5’2” or under, you know what it's like to attend a concert, buzzing with the excitement of seeing your favorite band of the week, only to spend the next three hours staring at someone’s sweat-streaked back. I vowed to help my fellow shortstacks, so here is a guide to some of the city’s music venues and what the vertically challenged can expect from them.
Read MoreWhat do the the Ramones, Snoop Lion (né Dogg) and Vanessa L. Williams have in common? Very little — but they've all recorded Christmas songs! With this in mind, I present a Spotify playlist guaranteed to warm even the hardest-core humbug's heart.
Read MoreSecretly Canadian recently released I Know What Love Isn't, Jens Lekman's most self-assured album yet. As someone with a host of social anxieties, I started wondering if he was slowly overcoming his own. Join me as I examine his most nerve-addled songs to find the corresponding phobias — and the turns of phrase that make it all okay.
Watching Shuggie Otis's ill-starred Echoplex show on Wednesday, my native Angeleno companions and I got to debating whether there is an “LA soul” sound — one that captures the soul of the city itself. Here are five of my personal choices for quintessential soul-of-LA artists.
Read MoreWhen Japanese animes get dubbed into English, it’s hit or miss. Nudity is covered up, violence is dumbed down, and (most) bestiality is glossed over. It’s the theme songs, though, that truly suffer. We’ve collected the most awful English dubs and made a list of artists — from Taylor Swift to GWAR — who could come up with epic alternatives.
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