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“HOPELESSNESS” comes to the Red Bull Music Academy Festival

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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

“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.

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.

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

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

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

Navigating the obfuscations with the bedroom-pop maestro.

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.

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.