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Why Aren’t You Listening to Ringo Starr’s Country Album from 1970?

The most slept-on Beatles solo album was also one of the first—and likely the most off-the-cuff, too.

November 21, 2018
Film + TV
Haddonfield, Revisited: John Carpenter’s Walk Back to “Halloween,” Forty Years Later

What many consider the scariest movie ever made started as a casual idea tossed out to a young filmmaker who understood the terror inherent within our own homes. That filmmaker also knew how to play the synthesizer. 

October 15, 2018
Film + TVStaff Picks
All the Ugly Sunglasses in “Mission: Impossible 2,” Ranked

*flips hair out of eyes while rock-climbing*

July 27, 2018
Film + TV
It’s Time to Talk About the Awful Use of “Comfortably Numb” in that Sex Scene in “The Departed”

Movie: good. Van Morrison singing Pink Floyd while Leo takes his shirt off: bad.

June 22, 2018
Digital Cover
100 Percent Happy: Courtney Barnett Is Letting It All Go

Courtney Barnett has been building quite the home for herself in our cultural pantheon. But she needs a place for her cat to stay, too.

May 01, 2018
Reviews
Khruangbin, “Con Todo El Mundo”

Now that every new release is considered to be a potential protest album of some kind, “Con Todo El Mundo” has arrived wonderfully devoid of any superfluous meaning.

February 14, 2018
A Eulogy for Ultimate Painting, One of Indie Rock’s Most Underappreciated Talents

The London duo should’ve become an institution. But with their final album supposedly scrapped, they’re at risk of becoming a footnote.

February 13, 2018
A Case-by-Case Legal History of Radiohead

Oh, so you’re such a big fan now? Name three of their lawsuits.

January 11, 2018
Art & Culture
Sinziana Velicescu’s Peripheral World

Rather than avoiding the ordinary details of our landscape, the LA photographer is focusing on them—and abstracting them into something new.

November 29, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
The Coppolas, Ranked

Oscars, Schmoscars. We’ve got the real winners of the family right here.

October 25, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
All the Band Shirts Worn by the Baby Anarchist in “GLOW,” Ranked

Ready, steady, go.

August 11, 2017
Events
FYF Fest Still Isn’t Coachella (And That’s a Good Thing)

Headliners were a story, as always, but they weren’t the story out of the fest’s inaugural three-day run at Expo Park.  

July 25, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
Non-Negotiable Casting Suggestions for Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Movie

Crank up the Beach Boys, baby: it’s time to figure this thing out.

July 13, 2017
Reviews
Lorde, “Melodrama”

In an age of army-sized writing teams crushing any sense of person on most major label releases, Lorde exists as a disarmingly legitimate personality.

June 28, 2017
Staff Picks
Does Ed from Radiohead Only Sing His Own Name? An Investigative Report

Not all fan theories are garbage.

May 12, 2017
Reviews
Woods, “Love Is Love”

If the critique of Woods is that they don’t shake things up enough, here is a definitive example to the contrary.

May 03, 2017
Mountain to Sound: The Returning Peaks and Hidden Valleys of Spoon

For a songwriter known for his inability to write a bad song, it’s easy to forget that Britt Daniel was once pushed to the brink. And whether he wants to or not, on “Hot Thoughts,” his group is bridging back to the beginning.

April 04, 2017
Reviews
Foxygen, “Hang”

“Hang” feels like a dramatic work in eight parts—a vaudeville act about Hollywood and the bastardized Manifest Destiny that it’s created.

January 27, 2017
Ordinary People: Ty Segall, Cory Hanson, and the Search for the American Pastoral

Strange as it may sound, two of music’s heaviest rock acts also function as two of its most sincere folk revivalists. But is it really a revival act at all?

January 13, 2017
Art & CultureStaff Picks
Innocent When You Meme: The Best Weird Internet Videos of 2016

Yeah, yeah, we get it. Beyoncé had a good year. But can we get on to the more important stuff now?

December 21, 2016
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