Ben Folds Five: The Sound of the Life of the Mind
Ben Folds Five The Sound of the Life of the Mind (Legacy Recordings) Excitement was in the air when the news that 90’s alt-rockers Ben Folds Five were reuniting and releasing their fourth studio album, The More...
Rodriguez Discusses the documentary Searching For Sugarman
Musician Sixto Rodriguez is the focus of the new award winning documentary Searching For Sugarman, which tells of his seemingly failed music career in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that blossomed in South More...
The Avett Brothers: The Carpenter
The Avett Brothers The Carpenter (Universal Republic Records) Indie folksters The Avett Brothers are back with their sixth full-length album, The Carpenter. As the name suggests, there is a heightened sense of More...
FILM: Richard Gere stars in Arbitrage
Richard Gere once said that he regretted passing on the role of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, but in Nicholas Jarecki’s new financial thriller Arbitrage, Gere finally has his day with his portrayal of the very More...
Animal Collective: Centipede Hz
Animal Collective Centipede Hz (Domino Recording Co.) The experimental psychedelica has gotten even more experimental and psychedelic on Animal Collective’s new album, Centipede Hz. It’s the kind More...
Dan Deacon: America
Dan Deacon America (Domino Recording Co.) With only a few months left before the presidential election, sonic architect Dan Deacon is releasing his new album, America, which isn’t focused on politics exactly, More...
We Talk with Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, directors of the new film Chicken With Plums
The Iranian born Marjane Satrapi quickly became known as one of the foremost graphic novelists of our time after publication of her groundbreaking, autobiographical novel Persepolis and she went on to team up with More...
Five Questions for the cast & crew of the new film Robot & Frank
I had an opportunity to talk with actors Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon as well as director Jake Schreier and screenwriter Christopher D. Ford from the upcoming film Robot & Frank about a retired cat burglar More...
FILM: Chicken with Plums
Mixing animated sequences with live-action, Marjane Satrapi’s new film Chicken with Plums tells the story of Nasser Ali-Khan, a virtuoso musician whose prized violin is destroyed and after unsuccessfully trying More...
FILM: Robot & Frank
It’s not common to come across a film that is both truly original and really well done, especially from a freshman direct, but Jake Schreier’s Robot & Frank is that notable film which succeeds in telling a More...
