I like a good band who’s got some serious DIY bones in them. Cue this conversation about the UK’s fiN and their quirky-ass moniker (for better or worse, in this respect we can place them right alongside fun.) Last year these guys gave us the MuteMath-ish (in a really good way) “Rapture,” the opus “Everybody Dies Alone,” as well as the notion […]

Just came from an advanced screening of Hyde Park on Hudson. What a fabulous little film. The film most likely won’t do big box office numbers… and it wasn’t as moving as The King’s Speech, but that’s no reason to disregard it. Hyde Park on Hudson is highly amusing! Blindly going into this screening, I really had no idea what […]

 These days in the realm of music, an air- that rarified air- of authenticity often feels harder and harder to come by. The popular, packaged and big-box music machine churns out more and more for us to listen to and look at but less to actually hear and see, let alone feel. One cure for so much malaise and mediocre […]

“It’s my goal to get away from anything to do with genre,” Azita tells me: “When I have a phrase of music I don’t want any identifiable thing where people think, it’s cool because, ‘It fits with my hairdo.’ A lot of people don’t necessarily listento music.  It’s like they want it to fit their scene.”  I recently got a […]

“I feel like this is my first record.  I self-produced it… My first record was kind of a novelty,” explains Sophie Auster.  Sophie is the daughter of literary super-couple Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt and, at 25, she’s been in some spotlight or other for the better part of her life.  She’s been acting since 1998, but seems to prefer […]

Milo Greene just make it so darned easy to like them. A winsome looking bunch, aren’t they? In chronological years the five piece ensemble made up of Robbie Arnett, Marlana Sheetz, Andrew Heringer, Graham Fink and Curtis Marrero has entered its ‘terrible twos’, yet it seems they’re behaving themselves quite nicely. The truth is that ever since gently debuting upon the […]

Yes, he’s that Brian Karscig from Louis XIV. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, here is San Diego’s the Nervous Wreckords, After SD based Louis XIV called it a day, the Nervous Wreckords became that creative outlet and next step for Karscig. So creative and so next step-ish that when all he had were a handful of recorded […]