New Features
Photos: Taste of Chaos 2008
This year we sent our resident photographer Megan Toscano to the annual Taste of Chaos music festival. With the bill stacked with heavy hitters Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, and Bullet For My Valentine, the tour was sure to gather the masses at every stop Read the story »
Review: Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat
Barry Adamson’s output is enviable, if sporadic. He has a storied solo career, has played with two legendary bands—Magazine and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds—and scored films along the lines of Lost Highway. The latter is especially apt, as Adamson is something like the aural equivalent of David Lynch. He has a reputation for giving no ground to his audience unless he deems it prudent, he prefers Read the story »
Photography
Set photos: Steven Spielberg’s The Pacific
The Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks mini-series Band of Brothers was both a triumph in cinematic achievement and audience enjoyment. It was as if they were able to stretch out the best aspects of Saving Private Ryan into a 10-part epic; succeeding in capturing a moving, and historically important story from the era. Its success of course, would inevitably lead to a follow-up, and both Spielberg and Hanks are back producing the new series Read the story »
Music
Photos: Taste of Chaos 2008This year we sent our resident photographer Megan Toscano to the annual Taste of Chaos music festival. With the bill stacked with heavy...
Review: Barry Adamson - Back to the CatBarry Adamson’s output is enviable, if sporadic. He has a storied solo career, has played with two legendary bands—Magazine...
Trent’s Lo-Fi Listening PartyThings have been pretty dead around here lately, so I thought I’d step in and pass along a few records I’ve been enjoying...
Film
Trailer watch: Iron Man (2)Bruce Wayne too morbid? Clark Kent too nerdy? Well, meet Tony Stark; billionaire playboy weapons designer, all-around jerk, and now,...
Trailer watch: Step BrothersWill Ferrell and John C. Reilly in another comedy? Yep- the cash cow keeps rollin’ on. This time the duo will feature in comedy...
Oscar winners announced; Daniel Day-Lewis, No Country For Old Men win bigGlitz and glam made a return to Hollywood as the 80th edition of the Academy Awards returned with full flair. The post-strike event...
Short Takes
Listen to the new Presidents of the United States of America albumThat’s right, those peach lovin’, lump havin’ goof balls are back with a brand new album. Titled, These Are the Good...
Grab the new Nine Inch Nails album for FREE!FREE! … always a good word. Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails are the latest big name artists testing the new media waters...
Rancid records at Skywalker Ranch?George Lucas’ famed Skywalker ranch is home to many projects in the entertainment world- as LA Times writer Geoff Boucher discovered....
Interviews
Night Kills The DayArmed with a pearl white tape recorder, a pocket-sized notebook and a fresh pack of cigarettes, I have found myself everywhere from...
Extended Opinions
Singing Through EuropeHere I am …in good ole’ Prague. An unfamiliar land with it’s original architecture, that...
