Stylus' talk of DnB basslines today has got me all nostalgic for the good ol' days. Or the days after the good ol' days when I started to explore DnB from overseas...

This was my second time seeing John Darnielle and Peter Hughes rip it up live, and between being the Best Man at a wedding this weekend and sundry other things, I am woefully late in writing about it. So late, in fact, that Carl Wilson has already done a masterful job of discussing the [...]

Two documentaries premiering at the festival take a look at musicians who were attacked for opposing American wars...

Collecting overlooked tracks or “deep album cuts” on some of the year’s better records so far (feel free to add anything I’ve missed)...

So exciting is the contemporary South Korean film scene that a new book calls it "The New Hong Kong"...

“I like your priorities,” a cinephile chum responded when I told him I was skirting the first week of fall semester to attend the Toronto International Film Festival...

Halfway through Sophie Fiennes’s Pervert’s Guide To Cinema, philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that pornography is as conservative as any other genre. Most films are free to depict emotional realism, but are limited to sexual artifice. Pornography suffers from the opposite constraints. Shortbus, with its graphic scenes of un-simulated sex, plays as if writer/director John Cameron [...]

The 2001 Toronto International Film Festival was horrifically interrupted by the attacks on the United States...

A while back Nick Sylvester theorized that Gnarls Barkley had “… found themselves or been forced into one of the more fascinating instances of the publicists and publicity engines becoming more "artistic" than the albums and artists themselves”...

1. Banksy “sabotaging” Paris Hilton’s debut album by replacing the artwork with doctored copies featuring slogans such as “Why am I famous?” and “What do I do?”, and photos of a topless Paris with the head of a dog, is pretty pointless. 2. This is “graffiti artist” Banksy, whose book you can find on the “recommended” stand at [...]