nicole_powers

Never has there been a time when Americans needed to rage more against the machine. As we weather a perfect storm of a Great Depression-like financial meltdown, a war that's more costly (in so many ways) than Vietnam, and daily scandals that make Watergate look like a Boy Scout prank, guitarist, singer and songwriter Tom Morello is raging hard, on stage, on CD, and on...
Read More

When Sam Rockwell walks into the room and shakes my hand, he looks distractingly like Eric Knox, his nouveau-riche hipster software mogul/villain from the tragically underrated Charlie's Angels. He's also easily distracted by the assorted bric-a-brac on the conference table -- my tape recorder, a bowl...

When Sam Rockwell walks into the room and shakes my hand, he looks distractingly like Eric Knox, his nouveau-riche hipster software mogul/villain from the tragically underrated Charlie's Angels. He's also easily distracted by the assorted bric-a-brac on the conference table -- my tape recorder, a bowl of candy, mini-sodas, etc. -- but despite our mutual distractions, we soon get down to business to discuss Choke...
Read More

Calexico have been called a lot of things, from "desert noir" to "Mariachi rock," mostly labels intended to play up the band's roots in the American Southwest. But if you really want to reduce Calexico's complex blend of themes and grooves (from around the world, not just from the border) down to a simple...

Ive had songs stuck in my head for the past month that nobody else understands. I got to hang out on the set of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia while they were filming their musical episode where songs about trolls in my holes and...

Calexico have been called a lot of things, from "desert noir" to "Mariachi rock," mostly labels intended to play up the band's roots in the American Southwest. But if you really want to reduce Calexico's complex blend of themes and grooves (from around the world, not just from the border) down to a simple message, it should be this: these guys have damned good taste....
Read More

Ive had songs stuck in my head for the past month that nobody else understands. I got to hang out on the set of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia while they were filming their musical episode where songs about trolls in my holes and the Day Man fighting the Night Man seeped into by brain.

In the aforementioned episode, Charlie Kelly (played by Charlie Day)...
Read More

Richard Patrick, Filters (hybrid) driving force, is frustrated. With one man down (the Webmaster of a fan site), and an ex-band member currently on the frontline in Iraq, whats going on in the Middle East is less remote for him than for most. So, while supporting our troops, hes speaking out against...

Richard Patrick, Filters (hybrid) driving force, is frustrated. With one man down (the Webmaster of a fan site), and an ex-band member currently on the frontline in Iraq, whats going on in the Middle East is less remote for him than for most. So, while supporting our troops, hes speaking out against the war, but feels his cries of protest on Filter's May 2008 album...
Read More

Winning an Academy Award for writing the film American Beauty and creating the Emmy-and-Golden-Globe-winning television series Six Feet Under would be achievements on which any writer could rest...

Winning an Academy Award for writing the film American Beauty and creating the Emmy-and-Golden-Globe-winning television series Six Feet Under would be achievements on which any writer could rest his laurels, but Alan Balls creativity is seemingly boundless. Two projects are simultaneously consuming him: The coming-of-age flick Towelhead and the racy vampire series True Blood for HBO, both based on novels that caught his attention over...
Read More

As the sun rises on one horizon, it sets on another. As one door wafts open, another unexpectedly slams shut. The day I got my job at Suicide Girls my grandma died.

I'm not sharing this with you to bum you out. Nor am I looking for sympathy. I'd merely like to take a moment to pay tribute to the life of a remarkable women....
Read More