NATHAN DINSDALE

What you think you hear when you listen to the Golden Republic is bastard strains of the Killers, Interpol, and Nada Surf. What the band hears is an amalgam of Blur, Talking Heads, and T. Rex. But wherever the dial actually lands in the name-the-influences game, it works. So well,...

Ahmir Khalib Thompson is the coolest motherfucker on the planet. Musician. Producer. DJ. Actor. Talent scout. Social commentator. Svengali behind the Okayplayer hip-hop community. A man who can pull off punctuation in a stage name: ?uestlove. The kick-ass drummer of the ass-kickingest hip-hop collective on Earth. Oh, yeah. And then...

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. How long has it been since your last confession? Uh, what's today? Let me see . . . I guess that makes it . . . two . . . divide by three . . . carry the four . . . uh,...