Given what we know about Kanye West, a comparison between his newest (best, maybe) record and the long-dead punk rock movement seems like a tough case to make — the dude telling God that he’s stacking his millions seems like an odd choice for a continuation of Never Mind the…
I told myself that it wouldn’t matter much, when Tuesday rolled around and I could finally purchase Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories from the record store, that I’d already been streaming the album for a week on iTunes. I think I was wrong…
Had Baz Luhrmann decided to take things even remotely seriously in his adaptation of The Great Gatsby, he could’ve just used the Bryan Ferry Orchestra’s 2012 album The Jazz Age in its entirety, instead of merely inviting Ferry to supply two incongruous songs for its soundtrack. But nothing about Luhrmann’s…
Longtime hermit, certified genius-oddball, and Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum is getting the band back together for a paltry smattering of tour dates this summer. In honor of the wonderful news, we’ve put together a list of the three best and three worst lines from NMH’s magnum opus, In…
Having solved all the country’s economic problems, come to an agreement on DOMA, and figured out what to do about gun control, the American government finally has time to focus on what really matters: where richer-than-God superstars Jay-Z and Beyoncé spend their obscenely luxurious vacations. More: Treasury department confirms Jay-Z,…
