After collaborating on “Coffee” more than a year ago, the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle and underground hip-hop champion Aesop Rock have reversed roles and the latter has played guest to the former’s host. Which is to say, Darnielle gave Aesop the tracks to “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” (cf. the
I’ve never really gotten over Matt Sharp’s departure from Weezer in 1998, and haven’t really paid much attention to their output since, except for deciding what singles I’ve heard were sub-par. Their third self-titled album (known as The Red Album, adhering to the tradition
According to the internet, last week New York-based electronic duo Ratatat quietly released a vinyl-only seven-inch (whatever the hell those words mean). One of the songs included is “Shiller,” which sounds like a film soundtrack scored jointly by Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti—so, clearly Italian in
Op: "Muslim law" prohibits punishment for any Muslim who kills Obama. And in response: That's the new Obama smear, that he was a Muslim, coming straight from the New York Times. Times hacks off limbs from its classical arts department. "Unsettlingly alive" stem cell
Her campaign beaten and bruised, Hillary won’t concede defeat, and proves she’s willing to do anything to get elected. With a comeback unlikely, our commentators wonder what she’ll try next—now and after the election.
The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone or a severed limb. In China, parents grieve, wait at a schoolhouse leveled by the earthquake. Chinese officials say death toll has reached 12,000, and is likely to rise. In Burma, first U.S. relief flights arrive; residents
Video footage of China's earthquake, responsible for killing at least 8,500, says current tally. Herbert on fire: We knew the Clintons had no shame, now we see they have no class. Clinton volunteers won't back down, take "quit" for an answer in West
Why Clinton was the best thing that could have happened to Obama's campaign. The new way of measuring sucess: We spy more so we can prosecute less so we can spy more. A theory about why locusts swarm: to avoid being eaten by each other. Scientists know better
Elizabeth Strout; The Bill McKibben Reader; Kluge; I Thought I Could Fly; Nixonland; A Coney Island of the Mind; Like a Rolling Stone; Personal Days; Girls in Trucks; White Cargo; Custerology; Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House; The White King; The Outlander; Maps and Legends; Airs & Voices.
You gotta love art with a message. In Stephen Floyd’s case, the medium is our conversational ether, our office-talk, the phrases that float around us during dinner conversation and in the news and are completely obvious—except when they end up in one of Floyd’s drawings and get turned on their head.
