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“Hard World for Small Things” still / photo by Luke Fontana, Courtesy Tribeca Film Festival

Art & CultureFilm + TV
Tribeca Film Festival 2016: The Virtual Arcade

Sure, Tribeca’s short films were mind expanding and its stack of features were narratively ambitious. But its virtual reality component managed to do both.

April 27, 2016

Demetri Martin in “Dean”

EventsFilm + TV
Tribeca Film Festival 2016: The Features

Taking a look at the cream of the feature-length crop from this year’s festival.

April 26, 2016

Laura Jane Turner in Tim Egan’s “Curve”

EventsFilm + TV
Tribeca Film Festival 2016: The Shorts

New York’s premier film fest just wrapped its fifteenth edition. Today, we survey the short films program.

April 25, 2016

Andrew Bird, “Are You Serious”

Reviews
Andrew Bird, “Are You Serious”

There are certain ironies involved with this new album by Andrew Bird.

April 01, 2016

Explosions in the Sky “The Wilderness”

Reviews
Explosions in the Sky, “The Wilderness”

With their seventh album, Texas post-rockers Explosions in the Sky continue to build on their fifteen-plus year legacy.

April 01, 2016

Mothers / photo by Kristin Karch

Breaking: Mothers

The Athens quartet are living up to their city’s musical legacy.

March 31, 2016
Reviews
Damien Jurado, “Visions of Us on the Land”

“Visions of Us on the Land” amounts to a headful of beautiful but confusing and conflicting emotions that leave you full of sorrow while pondering memories you previously didn’t possess.

March 30, 2016
Reviews
HÆLOS, “Full Circle”

One of the inherent difficulties of writing electronic-based music is adequately conveying the emotion that inspired it.

March 28, 2016

2016. The Besnard Lakes A Coliseum Complex Museum cover hi-res

Reviews
The Besnard Lakes, “A Coliseum Complex Museum”

Regardless, this is a record worth getting lost in—much like the landscape that once again inspired it.

January 21, 2016

Jeffrey Lewis in front of his apartment in NYC / photo by Katherine Alex Beaven

Meet Me in the City: Jeffrey Lewis’ Lower East Side

The anti-folk hero takes us on a tour of the New York neighborhood where he was born and raised.

December 12, 2015

2015. Jeffrey Lewis Manhattan cover hi-res

Reviews
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, “Manhattan”

His songs have always been as rich with the city’s colorful characters as they are his with incisive ruminations about his own life and philosophies, and “Manhattan” is no different

November 17, 2015

2015. El Vy, “Return to the Moon.”

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EL VY, “Return to the Moon”

“Return to the Moon” makes for a compelling collection of songs that’s certainly worthy of a place on the shelves alongside Berninger and Knopf’s other outfits.

November 04, 2015

BORNS To Release Debut Album Dopamine On Interscope Records October 16th (PRNewsFoto/Interscope Records)

Reviews
BØRNS, “Dopamine”

Riding the coattails of his at-times deafening hype, California–based songwriter Garrett Borns, better known as BØRNS, has followed up his recent Candy EP with this collection of shimmering pop songs.

October 26, 2015

BORNS // photo by Nick Walker

Breaking: BØRNS

After getting the Taylor Swift co-sign on his debut EP, the Los Angeles transplant drops his first full-length.

October 23, 2015

Protomartyr // photo by Zak Bratto

Protomartyr Aren’t Here to Save You, Man

Detroit’s finest return to fight false happiness with “The Agent Intellect”.

October 14, 2015

Cole Bowden // photo by Emily New

Art & Culture
Breaking: Cole Bowden and The Bob’s Burgers Experiment

Grabbing a bite with the man who decided to make all of Bob’s burgers.

September 23, 2015

Destroyer // photo by Fabiola Carranza

In Conversation
In Conversation: Making Meaning With Destroyer’s Dan Bejar

Navigating the obfuscations with the bedroom-pop maestro.

August 31, 2015

2015. Failure, “My Heart Is a Monster” cover

Reviews
Failure, “The Heart Is a Monster”

While the other eleven songs (in addition, there are also six short instrumental segues here) are valiant attempts and pretty good offerings, whether the album validates Failure’s decision to get back in the ring is up to you to decide.

June 29, 2015

2015. Desaparecidos, “Payola”

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Desaparecidos, “Payola”

Thirteen years later, the system is just as fucked: banks and corporations continue to bleed ordinary people dry, bankers are receiving bonuses instead of jail time, and cops are, quite literally, getting away with murder.

June 22, 2015

2015. Joanna Gruesome, “Peanut Butter”

Reviews
Joanna Gruesome, “Peanut Butter”

Neither as crass as their name, or as sweet as their album title suggests, this second full-length from Welsh five-piece Joanna Gruesome is ten songs of beautiful, yet scrappy sentimentality.

June 02, 2015
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