Nine of Mike Usinger's top 5 desert island discs are by Ween. Despite popular opinion, he is kind to animals and small children, and spends at least three hours a day obssessing over one unanswerable question: "Why are there people like Frank?"
There are many reasons to admire Kanye West. The multi-platinum rap icon lives life like something out of a 50 Cent video, jet-setting around the world and snapping up $11 million...
Just because we can, let's blame Chris Brown. After all, who—other than the usual internet Twitter crazies—is going to defend pop music's most celebrated amateur pugalist?
What's...
As fascinatingly improbable as the story of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd might be, the brilliance of The Great Hip Hop Hoax is that the film is about more than two white rappers from...
The wonderful thing about Hollywood is that way that folks in the entertainment industry are always on the lookout for each other.
Remember a couple of years ago, when a perma-...
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Marina Diamandis sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On being a “legitimate” pop star: “I don’t know if I can stand here and go...
This much becomes clear over the course of a conversation with Now, Now singer-guitarist Cacie Dalager: plenty of bleak days preceded the conception of the band’s latest record,...
Based on what’s topping the charts these days, there’s a good argument to be made that Ivan & Alyosha is well positioned for something big with its debut album, All the Times...
Lost and Dreaming (Independent)
How much enjoyment you’ll get from Lost and Dreaming is directly tied to your outlook on life. Still pissed at your dad for being AWOL every Sunday...
Null (The Broadway to Boundary)
Unfair as this might be, it’s hard not to feel like Kōban has blown it with null. If you’re going to make a record where every song sounds like a...
Some major entertainment stars go as far to hire publicists when they’ve got the birth of a child to announce to the world. Others take a more low-key approach.
Take, for example...