Influences on new BJM album run the gamut


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With the release of its eleventh studio album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has reinvented its sound once again. Throughout its nearly two-decade existence, the band has produced a diverse catalogue of albums crossing genres from folk rock to shoegaze to noise pop, all the while maintaining its authentic ’60s psychedelic aesthetic. […]

Weekend Picks


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thursday, february 25 The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees 1936-1943 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. > Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences > FREE Curious to see how poster art and film advertising looked more than half a century ago? Check out posters from the 80 movies that were […]

Websites remove the need for real life


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It seems like every time you go online there’s a new website advertising the next must-have service. Some are aimed at niche interests, while others try to revolutionize the way everyday needs are met. The other day I came across such a website, Twitpay.me. Advertising “payments in 140 characters or less,” Twitpay.me is a Twitter […]

Songwriting and vocal versatility from Guillemots front man


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The scruffy Fyfe Dangerfield is best known in England as the multitasking singer-songwriter-instrumentalist frontman of British avant-garde pop band Guillemots. But even after two full-length albums and three EPs, his Mercury-Prize nominated group is still obscure listening in the United States. The band is known for its orchestral approach to pop music and songs that […]

Figure skater Weir evokes lost era of glam


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When American figure skater Johnny Weir glides onto the ice, people discuss more than his triple axel. Yes, it’s not easy to ignore his outlandish costumes and rocky relationship with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because of his very public love of fur. But larger and louder than both of those is the […]

Start diva-dieting with muffin tops


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Tear open a Nabisco 100-calorie pack, and you get five little crisps that resemble the conveyor belt castoffs of Oreos or Chips Ahoy. Nabisco’s new slogan is “Diet Like a Diva,” and it bears some truth. Chances are you will feel so dissatisfied with these Oreo wafers that you’ll storm off to find a pack […]

Trio’s most recent independent release blends old and new


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Alkaline Trio is a punk band. Punk music, by definition, is and has always been an anti-establishment form of expression that aims to blatantly defy and oppose mainstream culture. The Hills is not punk. It came as somewhat of a surprise, then, when the nearly 14-year-old Chicago band Alkaline Trio appeared on MTV’s reality show […]