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This fall, I went out west to have some doughnuts and a Styrofoam cup of Orange Bang and hang with Andy Hernandez, a/k/a Coati Mundi, the m...

This week, in celebration of the 500th broadcast of New York underground dance music radio program  Beats in Space , I wrote a feature abou...

Thankfully, I've skipped out on having to quantify and qualify the last ten years of my listening life in the last month or so. Yet in ...

Our Netflix the other night delivered both Kelly Reichardt's ruminative 2006 film Old Joy and Lynn Shelton's more recent and mumb...

Some shows we were subjected to in-between televised football games: Battle Hair Loss Training the Perfect Dog Free Money "They...

Despite an iPod and a CD wallet stuffed with CDs, fifteen-plus hours of driving down those Texas highways have been soundtracked solely by ...

Between a few computer meltdowns, looming projects, and some family stuff, turning my attentions away for a moment. Thanks.

A few weeks back, I posted here how I attended a Q&A with Pedro Almodovar as part of the New York Film Festival . During the interview,...

While I didn't vote for Paste Magazine's  50 Best Movies of the Decade  ( Almost Famous ? Really? I know I should be pulling for ...

I know I know, every picture from Finland so far has been of Moomins, but isn't a peroxide blond bad boy also a beloved character from ...

One night while I was in Finland, I found myself seated at an event I would never in my right mind have attended back in the United States:...

Since the Sibelius symphonies I checked out from the New York Public Library were too scratchy to play, my main impression of what the musi...

I can unequivocally state that I've never been in a culture as intent on eating black food stuffs as the Finns. (Even in Cambodia, they...

Packing up for a week in Finland today (read: thermal britches). A few days in the countryside and then off to attend a music festival in ...

Originally, I merely wanted to swoon over this description of the San Bernadino Valley mental state as sussed by Joan Didion, wherein ...

While I still haven't figured out a way to attend the New York Film Festival proper, I was able to watch an in-person interview with Sp...

Nearly two years ago, I wrote  an appreciation on the films of John Cassavetes for the Idolator website , focusing on this curious soun...

Funny how things work. Last October, I found myself in Los Angeles interviewing the lovely Linda Perhacs (I also found myself in a four-ho...

Random things I've lost recently: the packaging for the new Tinariwen CD (scant seconds after importing) headband (for gym purposes) ...

When I worked at Pitchfork (well...define "work" where there's no pay), I was odd man out when it came to hyping The Arcade...