“Oh Dear, When Did It Get To Be Wednesday?” by Natti Vogel

Don’t look now, but the Beastie Boys have become Beastie Men. And respectable ones at that.

Next month, on April 14, 2012, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “MCA” Yauch, and Adam “Ad-Rock”
Horovitz—collectively known as the Beastie Boys—will be inducted into the Rock and Roll…

The Magnetic Fields just released a new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea on Tuesday, so it seemed an appropriate time to reassess The Magnetic Fields’ canon. I ranked every full-length by Stephin Merritt and his gaggle of cohorts from worst to best and it might surprise you what ended up on…

Normally, I don’t get into anything that goes viral. I refuse to devote hours of my day watching YouTube clips of cute babies, cuddling kitties, or Rebecca Black singing about Fridays. But GetUp!’s “It’s time” video promoting marriage equality (4,308,036 YouTube views and rising), which I never…

It’s hard to predict the tides of artistic expression, and I never expected it, but the fiddle, the banjo and traditional music in general, are coming back in a big way. Old Crow Medicine Show, The Wood Brothers and The Avett Brothers keep making great music and Edward Sharpe, Mumford & Sons…

When I began writing, I didn’t dare use headphones. Headphones were for impatiently waiting on the subway platform, they were for walking around New York when I was lonely, they were for running on the treadmill at the YMCA, they were for sitting on patches of so-called grass at parks in…

The reviews are in! Verdict: “W.E.,” Madonna’s second directorial effort (set for release in early 2012), is apparently the latest in her long string of cinematic disasters.

The film, which, in part, chronicles the romance of American divorcee Wallis Simpson and Britain’s King Edward VIII…