The Soft Charade

Ghost Town , which possesses perhaps the laziest, most self-evident title of a ghost-themed film since Bill Cosby’s 1990 cinematic tour de f...

When did Sweden become so hip? Formerly known to many primarily for its ample crop of tall, statuesque blondes, or as the namesake of rich c...

I have to be honest, normally when I'm watching something on TV or the internet and one of those big, black censor blocks appears over p...

David Ford used to front a British indie-rock band called Easyworld. They split up in 2004. If you've seen his live, one-take video perf...

It's safe to assume that The Hold Steady's gritty, Springsteen-esque breakout 2006 record Boys and Girls in America quickly became ...

If you're a My Morning Jacket fan, none of this information is probably news to you. Nonetheless, I'll humor myself by announcing MM...

2007, we hardly knew ye. Nonetheless, I had initially resisted posting any kind of cliche end-of-the-year review, but the more I thought ab...

The fifth and final season of HBO's The Wire premiered this past Sunday night. In case you missed it, chronologically the show picks u...

Philly band Townhall's frontman, George Stanford, recently released his own solo EP. The collection's lead-off track, "My Own ...

I caught hip-hop's deepest posse this past summer at the Virgin Festival at Pimlico Racecourse, where the Staten Island crew tore throug...

Bruce Springsteen hasn't released a studio album in five years, during which time it became en vogue in the independent rock realm to co...

Josh Ritter has a new album titled The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter , and while that's a bold moniker for an album which stands a...

I'd be lying if I acted like a hardcore M.I.A. fan, although I have no doubts that they're out there. I had never really heard too ...

So I finally got around to seeing Modest Mouse last night, after missing out on a sell-out show during their first go-round in Philly this s...

Everybody knows Mark Ronson is on fire. He's produced two of the year's hottest albums in Lily Allen's Alright, Still and Amy ...

I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Sunday night's new episode of Entourage . However, oddly enough, most of that buzz seems to b...

Josh Rouse has a new album called Country Mouse, City House , which supposedly he recorded in his home studio in Spain in a mere matter of d...

As my interest in HBO's new series John From Cincinnati began to wane, after the first few episodes or so, I realized that, despite my ...

A co-worker recently made me aware of Jason Isbell's new album Sirens of the Ditch , and after hearing him perform on The World Cafe th...

As I had previously mentioned, I spent my weekend in the beautiful state of Maryland. Actually Baltimore, to be specific, a city famous for ...