You Should Already Know: Mercury Rev
A trip down Mercury Rev’s memory lane proves to be an uneven romp.
Interviews
The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
Memo For Obama: Save Our Earth
Let’s be real: Barack Obama can’t change the world on his own.
Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons
When acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons sat down to create epochal comic book series Watchmen with writer Alan Moore, neither had any idea what was to come.
Beware, The Pentagon’s Robot Hunters!
How does the robot pack decide which human is cooperative and which is not? Welcome to the wonderful, dystopian world of defense pork.
When Will Los Angeles Run Out of Water? Sooner Than You Think
Water wasters might want to get to work on finding a new state. Of mind, if possible.
Who The Helloween Is Little Tibia And The Fibias?
The actual band that performed Little Tibia and the Fibias’ most excellent “The Mummy” has yet to be identified.
Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
“It was so incredibly untrue to life and yet so perfectly exposing at the same time.”
Ask DJ Shadow Returns!
LONG BEFORE DJ Shadow became an electro-hop legend, he was answering questions online from scrubs like me. Where did you get the guitar riff for “High Noon?” Who the hell was Colonel Bagshot? Do you owe David Axelrod back pay? Then he got too busy to bother.
Mogwai’s Ready For Its Hollywood Close-Up
“We would love to drop some jams for The Hobbit,” Braithwaite cracks. “In fact, I think that Barry should do the voice for Smaug.”
The Pickens Plan Sucks
Having your cake on climate crisis, fossil fuel addiction, eminent domain, water privatization and corporate earnings — and eating it too.
What Isn’t Shoegaze?
But in the end, it was used to describe bands like My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Swervedriver and pretty much anyone else, like drone minimalists Spacemen 3, who didn’t fall into the comfortable confines of easily classifiable music.
Post Up: An Interview With Neil Halstead
A chat with the man behind the aural soundscapes of Slowdive.
Lightning Strikes Spark Climate Crisis Wildfires
Dry lightning strikes in June might be “climatologically rare” now. But thanks to human-induced global warming, they will soon be utterly logical.
Africa Is A Victim In Our Quest For Oil
The ecological impact has been felt in the Niger Delta, which is the oil-producing region. According to the World Wildlife Fund, it is one of the most polluted places on the face of the Earth.
Don’t Be Evil To The Environment, Google
To mangle the cliche, the evil is in the details.
The Inevitability of Famine
Food has stopped being our other energy problem and become a chief terror of the future.
Reunited, And It Feels So Loud: An Interview With Swervedriver
As one of the finest bands from the so-called shoegaze scene, Swervedriver released four stellar, underrated efforts from 1991-1998 during a chaotic career marred by label drama and changing pop […]
Who Is Illegal? The Politics of Immigration
We are, all of us, a nation of immigrants, occupying lands that once belonged to someone else
Ring the Alarm: An Interview With REM’s Michael Stipe
“I think we can turn this around, but we can’t wait. We need the attention of everyone immediately.”
Grounded In Sound: DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Kid Koala
Consider then, if you will, the Hard Sell Tour as a gathering of fellow revolutionaries keeping the dual promises of turntablism and historiography alive.
Young People For Political Fellowship
Young People For’s fellows work for change from the bottom up. Get the lowdown on this generation’s budding grassroots leaders.
A Sorry Spectacle: Comics Journo Joe Sacco On Palestine, Israel, Bush
“ I studied journalism. I use comics to pursue journalistic ends, but at the end of the day, I’m a cartoonist.”
Desalination: Drinking Our Oceans
“I fear that the global water crisis will destroy all life on earth if we do not deal with it soon,” she confessed.
Body Language: An Interview With David Cronenberg
“body horror was not my term. It was a term someone used to describe what I was doing, so it is not a category in my head that I use to make films.”