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Sleater-Kinney Bob’s Burgers

Film + TV
WATCH: Corin, Carrie, and Janet Rock Tina’s Room in Sleater-Kinney–”Bob’s Burgers” Video Crossover For “A New Wave”

Another edition of We Are All Tina Belcher.

February 19, 2015

Florence and The Machine “What Kind of Man” video screenshot

WATCH: Florence + The Machine Examine Suffering and Contentment in Video for “What Kind of Man”

“What if they are creating the disaster themselves?”

February 12, 2015

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. trailer screenshot

Film + TV
Espionage, Action, and Accents: The First Trailer For Guy Ritchie’s “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”

“For a special agent, you’re not having a very special day, are you?”

February 12, 2015

Daft Punk / DaftPunKonsole

Art & Culture
Craft Your Own Daft With This “Harder, Better, Faster” DaftPunKonsole

There’s not much to this, except all of your afternoon’s enjoyment: Someone took apart the vocal and beat samples from…

February 11, 2015

Florence + The Machine “How Big How Blue How Beautiful” screenshot

WATCH: Florence + The Machine Return in “How Big How Blue How Beautiful” Video

This morning, Florence + The Machine shared a short video for a track titled “How Big How Blue How Beautiful” on YouTube, the…

February 10, 2015

Ian McKellen in Bill Condon’s “Mr. Holmes” screenshot

Film + TV
WATCH: Ian McKellen Strives To Remember The Past in First Clip for “Mr. Holmes”

Sir Ian plays an aging Holmes in Bill Condon’s upcoming film about the detective’s final case.

February 05, 2015

John Wick header

Film + TV
Uh-Oh, Someone Set Him Off Again: There May Be a “John Wick 2” Coming

The action-packed over-the-top awesomeness of John Wick—not to mention its insane kill count—was one of 2014’s most enjoyable movie-going experiences (and a…

February 04, 2015

Other Lives / 2015 / photo by Emily Ulmer

LISTEN: Other Lives Release “Reconfiguration,” First New Music in Four Years

For the follow-up to their last record, 2011’s Tamer Animals, Other Lives made a migration—uprooting from their hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Portland,…

February 03, 2015

Gorillaz, 2010, by Jamie Hewlett, courtesy Parlophone Records

Jamie Hewlett: “Yes Gorillaz Returns”

The group’s co-founder affirmed the rumors of a return on his Instagram

January 30, 2015

Game of Thrones season five Dorne

Film + TV
“Justice Has A Price”: The Trailer for “Game of Thrones” Season Five Is Here

While the wait will be a little longer for The Winds of Winter than hoped, the good news is Game of Thrones…

January 30, 2015

Wet Hot American Summer First Day of Camp

Film + TV
WATCH: Welcome Campers!: Netflix Teases New “Wet Hot American Summer” Series

It was welcome news at the beginning of the year to learn that we’d soon be returning to Camp Firewood,…

January 28, 2015

The Decemberists / 2014 / photo by Autumn De Wilde

Staff Picks
Villainy! Murder! Melody!: The 17 Grimmest Tales from the Decemberists Catalog

While the songs of Colin Meloy and his Decemberists are epic, visual, and frequently gorgeous in nature, they also tend to be some of the most gruesome and bleak tales that your ears have ever heard.

January 23, 2015

Spirit Club “Still Life” music video screenshot

WATCH: Spirit Club (Members of Jeans Wilder, Sweet Valley, and Wavves) Releases Sensory-Overload Video for “Still Life”

Since shredding into the scene in 2008, Nathan Williams has mostly kept himself busy with the grungy, lo-fi-ish rock of Wavves, but…

January 22, 2015

All We Are / 2015 / photo by David Edwards

LISTEN: All We Are Releases Atmospheric, Space-Soaring Single “Stone”

Richard O’Flynn, Guro Gikling, and Luis Santos each call Ireland, Norway, and Brazil home, respectively, but the three musicians met…

January 22, 2015

Sleater-Kinney Broad City NPR

Film + TV
WATCH: That One Time When Broad City Interviewed Sleater-Kinney

Well, this is certainly a match made in heaven. Last week, Broad City sat down with the recently “reunited” Sleater-Kinney at The Ace…

January 21, 2015

Bjork “Vulnicura” header

Björk’s New Record “Vulnicura” Is Out Now

OK, so even sooner than we thought. Björk has just suprise-released her new record Vulnicura on iTunes, a couple of months…

January 20, 2015

Lord Huron, “Strange Trails” album trailer

Lord Huron Teases New Album, “Strange Trails”

The imagination and music of Ben Schneider knows no boundaries. For his last album as Lord Huron, 2012’s Lonesome Dreams, Schneider…

January 20, 2015

2015. Viet Cong, “Viet Cong” album art

Reviews
Viet Cong, “Viet Cong”

Born from the tragic (and too, too soon) end of Calgary band Women with the death of guitarist Chris Reimer in 2012, Viet Cong’s self-titled debut continues an inescapable, momentous legacy.

January 19, 2015

Run The Jewels / The Regent Theater in Los Angeles / credit: Max Sweeney

Events
LIVE: Run The Jewels Reign at The Regent Theater in Downtown Los Angeles (1/14/2015)

With support from buzzed-about UK trio Until The Ribbon Breaks

January 16, 2015

Cheryl Kro

LISTEN: FIDLAR’s Sheryl Crow Cover Gives New Meaning To “If It Makes You Happy”

After a much-deserved break from the whirlwind release of their 2013 debut record, Los Angeles’s favorite rowdy, hearts-of-gold punk dudes FIDLAR…

January 16, 2015
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