Aug 31, 2011 Comic Books Web Exclusive

Justice League #1 is the first salvo in DC's line-wide relaunch, and how better to relaunch a line than with a book by storied DC muckity-mucks Geoff Johns (Creative VP; writer of a ton of stuff, some of it very good) and Jim Lee (Co-Publisher; penciller of more best-selling books than you can shake a rolled up comic at). It's a flashback tale of how the world's greatest super-team formed. More

Aug 31, 2011 Comic Books Web Exclusive

The second collection of iZombie still has all the elements that made the first collection great, but that may be what's working against it at this point. The tale of Gwen, a zombie whose day job is that of a gravedigger, and her hoary host of friends and acquaintances, should not seem mundane. But this second volume, while still quite good, doesn't break much ground, and, in fact, gets a little mired. More

Aug 31, 2011 Music #37 – St. Vincent

Although Male Bonding just released their excellent debut, Nothing Hurts, in the middle of last year, they’re already back with a follow-up.  More

Aug 30, 2011 DVDs Web Exclusive

For his sixth feature, Léon Morin, Priest, France's Jean-Pierre Melville couldn't have stepped further from the fare he's associated with today. Gone are the usual thugs, bank robbers, and freedom fighters that populate his films, replaced with lonely housewives and a hot-under-the-collar clergyman. More

Aug 30, 2011 Comic Books Web Exclusive

As one of maybe 10 people who loved Gerry Conway's "Justice League Detroit" back in the '80s, I am this book's target audience. And it did not deliver, unfortunately. More

Aug 30, 2011 Music #37 – St. Vincent

Earlier this year Dev Hynes, best know for his work in Test Icicles and as Lightspeed Champion, unleashed the first single under his latest moniker Blood Orange. More

Aug 29, 2011 Live

It’s deceptively easy to see the career of French musician Serge Gainsbourg as one continuous punchline. With his distinctive vocal style—a muttered sing-speech—parodied almost into oblivion since his rise to popularity in the 1960s, the inclusion of his music in film or television seems to automatically indicate the horny bachelor, the ill-conceived seduction, or (horror of horrors) hipsters aiming to embrace kitsch with both hands. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl however, cool was the name of the game—as Beck, Zola Jesus, Victoria Legrand (of Beach House), Mike Patton, Ed Droste (of Grizzly Bear), The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Lulu Gainsbourg, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sang, spoke and cooed their tributes to the late performer. More

Aug 29, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

There isn’t much more that can be said about Marvin Gaye’s enduring masterpiece, What’s Going On, that hasn’t already been said. It truly is a perfect, transcendent record. More

Aug 26, 2011 Live Web Exclusive

Maybe Rose Hill Drive has not made its best studio album yet. But judging by its performance on this night, it has conquered the live stage. More