Tom Jones

It's impossible to not know the lyrics to at least one Tom Jones song: “What's New Pussycat?” and “It's Not Unusual” are just two samples of an...

Anti-Flag

Pittsburg punk rockers Anti-Flag made waves from the late eighties on through the early aughts with politically-charged anthems and in-your-face iconography (their logo is a...

DAISY AGE

What to make of the fact that the website for the Electric Daisy Carnival lists music separately from entertainment? Only one way to find out: Hop aboard the 7 train to Citi...

The Gil Evans Project

Ryan Truesdell's disc of previously unrecorded Gil Evans arrangements floored most of those who heard it and was recently named "Record of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists...

Various projects and various collabos fly by. But when the Puerto Rican McArthur Grant recipient blows the whistle and calls home his decade-old working band, it's an event....

EPIC DUO

Big Sur’s Henry Miller Memorial Library heads east to mark the nine years its writerly namesake lived at 992 Driggs in Williamsburg—“The ideal street for a...

EATS & BEATS

Last year, organizers of Bonnaroo and Outside Lands had a grand idea: produce a festival in our favorite borough (Brooklyn) that combines people’s love of great music...

Angel Olsen

This Chicago-by-way-of-St.Louis folk singer lives up to the pairing in her name, both decidedly heavenly and remarkably plain. Simple as soil, Angel Olsen's songs are...

Liars

Rock anarchists Liars' greatest asset is their distractibility. In the years since they jumped on music fans' radar by jumping on the Brooklyn post-punk bandwagon (or did...

Sarah Polley Gets to Know All the Women Her Mother Is in Stories We Tell

Jean-Luc Godard said, "All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a secret in her heart. Director and...

Free Will Astrology: May 8-14, 2013

ARIES [March 21–April 19] The Tarahumara Indians are renowned for their ability to run long distances. The best runners can cover 200 miles in two days. The paths they...

Hollywood: Enough With the Father-Son Dramas, Already!

In his new film, the social drama At Any Price, director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani examines how the transformation of food into intellectual property through seed patents...

R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy

In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were also, increasingly, becoming...

Uwe Boll, Worst Director Alive, Can't Get His Movie About Killing Wall Streeters to Open in New York

Uwe Boll will no longer fight you -- at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once literally got into the boxing ring with four...

Indonesian Buddy-copy Flick Java Heat Muddles Through

Java Heat's title refers not to hot coffee but to the Indonesian island, though caffeine is certainly recommended to make it through this tepid buddy-cop action flick. In...

Don't Call What Richard Did "Bergmanesque"

The director Ingmar Bergman shot his masterpieces Persona and Through a Glass Darkly and several other films in and around his house on Fårö, an island off the...

Pilgrim Song Takes to Appalachia

Disaffected and searching for clarity and answers, James (Timothy Morton) takes to the Kentucky Appalachians' Sheltowee Trace Trail in Pilgrim Song, setting in motion a...

The Fruit Hunters Sports Luscious Produce

"Where we're going we don't need roads," photographer-turned-fruit geek Ken Love tells fellow geek Bill Pullman as they crash through Hawaiian brush in search of the exotic....

Three Sisters Is an Affecting Look at Provincial Chinese Life

The girls first appear clumped together within a dark room. Yinging is 10 years old, Zhenzhen six, Fenfen four. Light comes from a nearby fire, and a competition soon emerges...

Shootout at Wadala Can't Shake Its Vile Lead

Shootout at Wadala is a true-crime gangster epic about an ostensibly charismatic outlaw who's really just a preening monster—something the filmmakers seem to miss. The...