The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Lena Dunham
One of the most talked-about women on television joins SNL this week. Lena Dunham’s enthusiasm and ingenuity are just what we need to lift us out of the dourness of last week’s catastrophe. Recently,...
View ArticleFlavorwire Interview: Tom and Matt Berninger on ‘Mistaken for Strangers,’ The...
Most rock documentaries are loving hagiographies about the excellence of said band, but Tom Berninger’s Mistaken for Strangers, the closest thing to a documentary on the elegantly disheveled rock band...
View Article20 Dad-Rock Albums You Should Learn to Love
Dad-rock (n.): 1. (lit.) music played by dads; 2. music made by old white dudes that somehow always ends up on the car stereo and/or being played on the hi-fi at various school friends’ houses. Both...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The film calendar is so awards-driven, so targeted specifically towards the fall festivals and (heavy sigh) Oscar season, that it’s easy to presume little of note hits theaters in the first half of the...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Songs We Heard This Week: Madonna’s ‘Rebel Heart’ Highlights,...
Just because it’s the holidays doesn’t mean new music is on lockdown. Give these a listen if you’re recovering from Christmas music and/or year-end lists. Madonna — “Ghosttown” Following major leaks of...
View ArticleThe 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Lower Dens’ Retrofuturism, Janelle...
From Janelle Monáe’s goofy homage to yoga, to Jana Hunter funneling her paranoia into ’80s pop, here are this week’s best new songs. Lower Dens — “Sucker’s Shangri-La” Musical retrofuturism has a new...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Albums of the First Half of 2013
It’s the middle of the year, so that means… it’s list time! We’re celebrating National Patriotic Beer-Drinking Day by evaluating the year in culture to date, and as far as music goes, that means...
View ArticleThe 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: The National, Azar Swan
It’s Friday, which means it’s time to draw the curtains on the working week and go and get drunk — but first, it’s time to survey the best songs that were released this week. As we move toward the end...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Guide to Indie Flicks to See in March
At risk of getting all post-Oscar hyperbolic, I have a bit of good news: this is one of the best months for independent movies in a long, long time. Of the 11 films I had the chance to check out in...
View ArticleThe National and Låpsley Become ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Characters and Sing About...
The National and Låpsley have covered a song from Season 6, Episode 19 of Bob’s Burgers, in which the titular animated burger chef gets his hopes for world renown very high when he hears that his...
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