Jim Jarmusch

Parker: A Rough Guide to a Rough Guy

John Hyams Is Dedicated to the Abstract and the Ass-Kicking

Six Ways of Looking at Tom Waits, Character Actor

Spike Lee Goes Back to Indieland (and Brooklyn) With Red Hook Summer

Up on the Sun: The Podcast with Ron Livingston, Isaac Brock, Wanda Jackson, and More

In this week's issue of Phoenix New Times, we profiled Queens of Country, a new movie filmed on location in Cave Creek, Arizona, which debuts this weekend at the Phoenix Film Festival. In this episode UOTS: The Podcast, we speak with Ron Livingston (Office Space), who stars opposite of Lizzy Capla ... More >>

Up on the Sun: The Podcast, with Howe Gelb, Black Milk, and More

Welcome to the first episode of Up on the Sun's new weekly podcast, Up on the Sun: The Podcast. In this week's episode, we speak with Detroit MC and producer Black Milk about his collaborations with Danny Brown, and the "Detroit sound." We also speak with Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, about his new rec ... More >>

That's Cool, Jack, But How About a Meg White Solo Album?

​Heard the news? Jack White is coming out with a solo album. If first single "Love Interruption," is any indication, Blunderbuss will be loaded with fluttering woodwinds, electric piano, and White in full-tilt gospel mode. It's pretty good -- I mean, not quite as daring as that ICP collab -- but i ... More >>

Dengue Fever at Crescent Ballroom, 1/26/11

Dengue Fever Crescent Ballroom Thursday, January 26 The setting was the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, but given the atmosphere and exotic sounds emanating from the stage, it may as well have been Cambodia circa mid-1970s. Eyes closed, it hardly mattered, Dengue Fever was in its element, and that el ... More >>

Meek's Cutoff Displays Fractured Trust in 19th-Century Oregon

Dirty Beaches @ The Trunk Space

Dirty Beaches Talks Film, Hip-Hop, Home, and Performance Art

​ Dirty Beaches is the work of Alex Zhang Hungtai, a 30-year-old born in Taiwan before spending time in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, China, and, currently, Montreal. To call Dirty Beaches a band would be a misnomer. What Zhang Hungtai does is more akin to performance art, with live performance ... More >>

True Grit: How the West Is Won

Wyclef Jean Hasn't Given Up Hope on Haitian Presidency

Who says pop stars aren't perseverant?​By now you've probably heard the news that Haitian presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean was disqualified from the race, as determined by the Haitian board of elections. The latest word on the blogosphere though is that Wyclef ain't quite ready to give up yet. Acc ... More >>

MTV Takes Away The Music

​No, this isn't some snide commentary. It's the truth. They're taking the words "music television" from their logo. I think everyone does suspect, though, that it's got something to do with the fact that MTV rarely plays music anymore. Some poor intern for Paste even forced himself to watch 24 hou ... More >>

Limits of Control: Wandering Spain with Jim Jarmusch’s "Lone Man"

There's no treasure at the end of the terrible Fool's Gold

Anatomy of a Murder

As stylized as it is insane

Seasons in the Sun

Punk's Not Dead. It's Just Jaded

Corpse ride

Duck Day Afternoon

Mexican kids playing video games, and not much else

Shandy Everybody Wants

This adaptation loads on the Bull

Digging in the Dirt

Native Son

Keith Secola gives new meaning to Americana

Going for Broken

Bill Murray gets a Dear Don letter

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise

Feels Like 80 Days

"The whole sordid affair is craptacular-craptacular."

A Good Buzz

Hopped up and hip: Coffee and Cigarettes brings the cool

Clash City Rocker

Joe Strummer gives his band enough rope, and arrives at a democratically created, internationalist gem

Dumb and Blind

Lars von Trier's well-choreographed Dancer in the Dark needs a script, some logic and a Steadicam

Going Def

After more than a decade, the Deftones are overnight sensations

Live by the Sword

Jim Jarmusch brings new tricks to samurai-themed Ghost Dog

Cox Suckers

Shedding tiers over IFC

Desert Noir

Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino take a dark and wondrous turn with The Black Light

Carry That Waits

Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait

War Games

Life Is Beautiful, even in Roberto Benigni's tragicomic concentration camp

Screen Tests

Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests

The Writ and Wisdom of Crispin Glover

Hollywood's ubereccentric rewrites the book on weird

Grin, Reaper

Fast Talkers, Pugnacious Puppets, 007

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The Screening Meemies

Judd Nelson? Howard the Duck? The Eighties weren't exactly the best years of our lives