Patrick Watson discusses his recent album, bizarre characters encountered in the rural Southwest and the ska band he played in as a teenager

Just before he took the stage at Bowery Ballroom this past Friday night, I sat down backstage with singer/songwriter and frontman of his eponymous band Patrick Watson. We talked about his most recent album, Adventures More...

FILM: Lola Versus

Lola Versus, the new, coming-of-age film starring Greta Gerwig as a newly single woman in New York, could have been a grating and self-involved re-hashing of a story that I’ve seen several times before. But instead, More...

Jack White: Blunderbuss

Jack White Blunderbuss (Columbia) I was a sophomore in high school when The White Stripes’ Elephant first blew up. With Jack and Meg’s heavy blues-rock jams, Elephant was the Stripes album that I first More...