role models

A filmmaker who became a director because of Clint Eastwood considers the retired actor's latest effort behind the camera.

I started having trouble on the bus when I was six years old. I was a little nerd who couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I would lip off to boys twice my...

Memories of early Fincher and the passing of another great director, and connecting the dots between two twisted, satirical thrillers about marriage.

Love might not be forever, but AC/DC sure is.

Singer-songwriter Holly Miranda assesses the new album by the woman who first inspired her to write a song.

Being a teenage Tori Amos fan in the ‘90s was, of course, the greatest. A strong — the strongest ever! — run of albums with no fan consensus on a...

So, Winger has a new album.

“Never meet your heroes” is a useful mantra. It keeps illusions intact and prevents precious chunks of your record collection from being rendered...

One freezing November afternoon in 2007, I was getting ready for a show in Williamsville, New York with a band I was in at the time when I learned...

Many moons ago, after I first picked up a bass, but likely before I experimented with any gateway drugs, my older sister was passing through a ...

On February 7, 1964, the Beatles' plane arrived at the newly named John F. Kennedy International Airport, the beginning of a six-year run that...

I wonder how Stephen Malkmus feels. For the most part, it's been impossible, really, to get inside his mindset throughout his near quarter-century...