Dengue Fever is a band with a sound so wild you have to hear it to believe it. They are six person band with a native Cambodian singer named Chhom Nimol. Essentially they are a rock band with that bizarre foreign sound to it. Its fucking great....
Over the past decade or so Lisa Crystal Carver has made an industry out of Drugs Are Nice with an album, a DVD and now a book subtitled A Post-Punk Memoir...
Matthew McConaughey is very much like the characters hes played in a few of his movies. Hes easy going, laid back, charming and very easy to talk to. He plays another one of those guys in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch. His character Trip is a wealthy boat broker who still lives with his...
Paul Mooney is one of the funniest comedians ever. He has never been as acclaimed as some of his peers like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy. Not only is he is raw, real and sometimes even scary but he never lets up. He pushes the limits of the audience, sometimes to the point where even though they...
Its a good time to be Clive Owen. In the past year hes received an Oscar nomination for Closer, had a big role in the groundbreaking Sin City and made out with Jennifer Aniston in Derailed. Now hes starring in the bank heist film Inside Man alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and directed...
Alkaline Trio is the kickass band made up of Dan Andriano, Derek Grant and Matt Skiba. They just got the song, We Can Never Break Up, on an episode of the horror anthology series Masters of Horror. That song is included...
Boy Sets Fire has got a busy year so far. Not only have they re-released their classic album The Day the Sun Went Out but they just put out an all demo album called Before the Eulogies and they have a new album called The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years. Its a little Dostoyevsky sounding...
It seems that it is hard to be an extremely popular musician but still be a revolutionary at the same time. Certainly Wyclef Jean disproves that. After The Fugees became a monstrous music phenomenon they stopped making music and they all went on to solo projects with Wyclef being the most successful....
Wim Wenders is one of the greatest film directors in history. Films like Until the End of the World, Buena Vista Social Club and The State of Things have pointed social commentary but also are fascinating character portraits. His previous collaboration with reknown playwright Sam Shepard, Paris, Texas,...
Aaron Eckhart scared a generation of filmgoers with his misogynistic character in the seminal independent film In the Company of Men. Since then hes played such roles as the sympathetic biker in Erin Brockovich to a fast talking shyster in Paycheck. Now hes playing the be all end all of shysters;...
Armor For Sleep isnt a progressive rock band but they have just created their story album called What To Do When You Are Dead. This idea came out of a very emotional period for their vocalist Ben Jorgensen. I got a chance to talk with Jorgensen about what put...
Its come full circle for illustrator David Lloyd. Back when he and Alan Moore first created V for Vendetta in 1981 they couldnt have expected that 25 years later it would become a big budget action flick. While...