Apr 04, 2012 TV Web Exclusive

Just because you were in Bridesmaids doesn't mean your mere presence is enough to save a predictable sitcom. Jessica St. Clair of that film stars as Jessica Black in Best Friends Forever where in the first scene she is served divorce papers while video chatting with her best friend Lennon Parham (who plays Lennon White). More

Apr 04, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

Christian Wargo (Fleet Foxes, Crystal Skulls), Casey Wescott (Fleet Foxes, Crystal Skulls), and brothers Ian and Peter Murray (The Christmas Cards) have a new project that is full of hazy '70s California folk-rock sounds. More

Apr 03, 2012 Comic Books Web Exclusive

Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child is the third new book that Vertigo dropped in March. It's an the comic book equivalent of a Fabergé egg; nearly every panel, character detail, and narration caption are just so. More

Apr 03, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

A touch of despair that a second album would never be forthcoming was starting to set in every time Miike Snow announced yet another tour in support of their self-titled debut. Its follow-up, Happy to You, carries over the clear lyrical intonations and inherent pop sensibility that established Miike Snow for trend watchers and the mainstream alike. More

Apr 02, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

Bear in Heaven have been kicking around the Brooklyn scene for the better part of a decade now. They made a couple of really good Kraut-heavy records that few people heard (2004's Tunes Nextdoor to SongsEP, 2007's Red Bloom of the Boom), and another that garnered them long overdue accolades and an audience, 2009's superb, yet slightly more conventional Beast Rest Forth Mouth. More

Mar 30, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

It's been 21 years since The Wedding Present's arguable masterpiece Seamonsters. And while they're doing the tour-your-classic-album thing with that one this year (as they did in 2010 with another arguable masterpiece Bizarro), they'll also have a little something new for you: Valentina, the group's eighth studio album.   More

Mar 29, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

Last year's The Mistress was primarily the work of Alex Schaaf; Strange Land sees the Yellow Ostrich moniker expand to a three-piece, bringing on drummer Michael Tapper and multi-instrumentalist Jon Natchez as full-timers. More

Mar 28, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

Oberhofer's saccharine surf-pop has been bubbling under our trending topics ever since the sparkling, loose-vibes gem "o0Oo0Oo" charmed us a couple years ago. Unlike virtually all of his contemporaries, Brad Oberhofer took an extended sabbatical before putting out his debut full-length Time Capsules II—making it a fresher, grander, and altogether tougher sound in the notoriously flimsy realm of beach-pop. More

Mar 27, 2012 Music Issue #40 - In the Studio 2012 - Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Twin Shadow

White Hills is one of the more formidable contemporary heirs to the Hawkwind space rock throne, an electrifying live band, and a damned prolific bunch. Here's another full-length, right on the heels of last year's Live at Roadburn and the ferocious H-p1. More