Jun 29, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

Over the past year, the blog hype for Cults, the duo of Brian Oblivion (guitar) and Madeline Follin (vocals), has been deafening. It’s well deserved as they’re making a particularly potent strain of bittersweet, ’60s girl-group influenced pop music that just so happens to be very popular right now. More

Jun 28, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

In 1984 and ’85, Neil Young was in the middle of the “experimental” stage in his career. In ’82, he released Trans, his vocoder-filled electro-rock album, and a year later saw the fruition of his rockabilly project,Everybody’s Rockin’. Then in 1985, Young released Old Ways, an album featuring a traditional country sound and collaborations with such musicians as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. More

Jun 27, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

Now 27 years old, Liam Finn has been a professional musician for half his life. More

Jun 24, 2011 Cinema Web Exclusive

Documentary director David Fine has pulled off a cool trick in making an emotionally absorbing film about a sports team in which the final score of the games depicted is only of secondary consequence. More

Jun 24, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

Six years is a long time in any industry, but especially for musicians. More

Jun 23, 2011 TV Web Exclusive

Louis C.K. (or simply Louie) may look like an ordinary, even boorish New York schlub, but his first season of Louie turned heads. He's now one of America's most important standup comedians. More

Jun 23, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

In an interview with Under the Radar last summer, Hooray for Earth frontman Noel Heroux described his band’s debut EP Momo in thematic terms as “people coming together and feeling togetherness and extreme anxiety at the same time.” This discordance and togetherness once again permeates his band’s music on their debut LP True Loves, but it’s more than just a continuation of themes explored on Momo.  More

Jun 21, 2011 Music Web Exclusive

Joel Ford (Tiger City) and Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) are childhood friends attempting to recapture the sounds of their childhood—specifically, borderline cheesy synth-pop, R&B, and electro from the '80s. More

Jun 20, 2011 Music

On their sixth LP in as many years, Brooklyn's Woods tone down the psychedelic freakouts in favor of a folksier sound, reflecting a departure from their breakthrough 2009 disc, Songs of Shame and last year's follow up, At Echo Lake. More