Warren Zevon

The Other America: Revisiting Lawrence Kasdan’s Grand Canyon

Accidentally, Like a Martyr Pulls Up a Gay Bar Stool

Mart Crowley might like Grant James Varjas's new play

What Would Planets Look Like If They Orbited Earth as Close as the Moon? [VIDEO]

There's a full moon tonight, which means ERs will be crowded, tides will be amplified and stark naked men will awake tomorrow in London's Hyde Park, wondering why blood is dripping from their chins. When you look up at the sky tonight, try to imagine what it would look like if, say, Jupiter or Neptu ... More >>

On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet

There's a full moon tonight, which means ERs will be crowded, tides will be amplified and stark naked men will awake tomorrow in London's Hyde Park, wondering why blood is dripping from their chins. When you look up at the sky tonight, try to imagine what it would look like if, say, Jupiter or Neptu ... More >>

On the Magnolia Electric Co.'s Fleeting New Single "It's Made Me Cry"

Jason Molina once made spooky, indelibly lonely music as Songs: Ohia--enormously sad, occasionally gospel-inflected compositions that pillaged country and Hank Williams and Will Oldham but didn't quite sound like anything but themselves. Then, sometime around 2003, he formed the Magnolia Electric Co ... More >>

The Dark Knight: Selling Tickets—and a Muddled Political Message

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is also shilling a jumbled message of the paranoia of our age and the politics of fear.

Batman's Muddled Political Metaphors

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is selling tickets—and a jumbled message on the paranoia of our age and the politics of fear

Rock of Ages

The Detroit Cowboy tells his congregation about the world, flesh, and the Devil

Get Busy Living

The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

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The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

Heads, Future and Past

Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .

The Dean's List

Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .

The Personals

Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .

Soup Cans in the Supermarket

Two Middle-Aged Guys Make the Biographical and Intentional Fallacies Rock, Dude

Letters

Two Middle-Aged Guys Make the Biographical and Intentional Fallacies Rock, Dude

Everything's on Sale

Universal Reversals, Webcast Battles, RIAA-Safe Tuneage

Warren Zevon, 1947–2003

The Poet of Gower Avenue Winds Down His Dirty Life and Times

Sometimes Lyrics Suffice

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

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Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Re-make/Re-model

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Nothing Major

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Renovated One-Bedroom Apartment Over Store in 19th-Century Building

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

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Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Tombstone Blues

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Pat's Tattered Army

The Buchanan Campaign Faces Flak Over Money and Managers

E-Mail at the End of Time

Mambos in Bottles, Pit Bulls in Skirts, Smurfs in Stretch Hummers

Yearjerker

NBC gets back to (not at) The '60s