Humanizing The Vacuum

In which Carrie Brownstein reminds us why she's cooler than you and me by giving Madonna the NPR treatment . When she tells us how she d...

Recorded at Coachella this weekend. Listen quick, before the Little One's record company decides to pull it. Surprisingly crisp sound to...

Rob Trucks' touching interview with Robert Forster adds new wrinkles to his story, not the least of which is the revelation that he...

I recognize in Christopher Hitchens a kindred spirit – a spirit that relishes combat, embraces contrarianism, and has no problem pissing off...

My review of the King Khan track "Torture." Their Pitchfork Music Festival show should be fun.

It was fun reading The Art of War again, if only to imagine Bill Kristol reciting one of Sun Tzu's maxims through clenched Cheshire Ca...

When I saw Daisy Kenyon a few weeks ago, I thought it was not just Otto Preminger's best film noir , but his best film. Putting his con...

"So Haunted" is one of my singles of the year -- plaintive, insistent -- and it surrenders pleasure after pleasure in ways that it...

My hometown colleagues at Babalu Blog are having so much fun. After hearing my grandmother go on a tear about Obama's "socialist t...

Is David Byrne angling for new mainstream viability? I know, it's not a "comeback," he hasn't gone anywhere. But first th...

One President Keyes on ILE , posing as George Stephanopoulos: "Senator Obama, if your wife were raped and killed by an American flag, w...

It's inevitable to compare Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" and Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake's "4 Minutes...