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Drive-by Spins Bettye LaVette, the Whigs, Ryan Bingham and more | 10/17/2012
Drive-by Spins | 10/10/2012
Drive-by Spins Quick takes on Dave Matthews Band, the Avett Brothers and more | 9/19/2012
Drive-by Spins Quick crits of new releases. | 9/5/2012
Kylie Minogue - The Best of Kylie Minogue (EMI) A loving compilation celebrates her meticulously crafted songs and inherent pop smarts | 7/3/2012
‘Brave’: Pixar goes Disney in its first period piece Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) has a problem with authority, especially her nagging mom, who just wants her to settle down with a... | 6/23/2012
‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ one of Wes Anderson’s best movies The characters in Wes Anderson's movies live in a fantasyland. Going back to his 1998 breakthrough Rushmore to 2009′s Fantastic Mr. Fox (a stop-motion animated film... | 6/23/2012
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe (XL) Soulful veteran drops his first album of new material in almost 20 years | 6/13/2012
'Madagascar 3': Going through the motions The Penguins of Madagascar is one of the few TV shows that's better than the movies it's spun off from. That's probably why the third outing in this... | 6/13/2012
'Prometheus' opens a new world of possibilities They're claiming that Prometheus isn't technically a prequel to Alien, despite the same universe and director. But that's not quite the truth. | 6/8/2012
Sigur Rós - Valtari (XL) Verdict: The breathtaking elegance of their music has sorta worn off | 6/6/2012
Joey Ramone - ... Ya Know? (BMG) Joey Ramone's unfinished songs are patched together into one good last call | 6/6/2012
The Intouchables A paralyzed millionaire and a poor ex-con buddy up in a weeper that's already taken Europe by storm | 5/31/2012
'Borat''s mastermind takes a more conventional route in 'The Dictator' It was only a matter of time before Sacha Baron Cohen would have to retire his style of guerrilla filmmaking. After the success of 2006's Borat... | 5/16/2012
Cornershop - Urban Turban (Ample Play/Darla) Eighth LP is packed with pop hooks, dance grooves and hip-hop beats | 5/16/2012
Jason Mraz - Love Is a Four-Letter Word (Atlantic) Artist’s fourth album never tries too hard or aims too big | 4/18/2012
Jack White - Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia) You mean he’s just now getting around to his first solo album? | 4/18/2012
The Cabin in the Woods If its geek pedigree isn’t enough to tip you off that The Cabin in the Woods isn’t your typical slasher movie, it should become clear within the first few minutes | 4/11/2012
'Buffy' and 'Lost' alum dick around with horror clichés If its geek pedigree isn't enough to tip you off that The Cabin in the Woods isn't your typical slasher movie, it should become clear within the first few minutes that... | 4/13/2012
We Need to Talk About Kevin A troubled kid's endgame leaves Tilda Swinton picking up the pieces | 4/5/2012
Why 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' demands our attention It's every parent's worst nightmare and it's something Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) knows from the start: there's something wrong with her son. | 3/21/2012
Shooter Jennings - Family Man (Entertainment One) His fifth and most personal album | 3/14/2012
Big Brother and the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin - Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 (Columbia/Legacy) 70 minutes of live boogie-blues psych-rock | 3/14/2012
Nneka - Soul Is Heavy (Decon) Nigerian-German neo-soul singer embraces Afro-pop pioneer Fela Kuti | 2/22/2012
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador) Mike Hadreas gives up a beefier, richer sound on his sophomore LP | 1/25/2012
Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound (Merge) Still surprisingly engaging for a part-time band. | 1/25/2012
The Big Pink - Future This (4AD) London electro-rockers are all about hippie aesthetics applied to new-wave influences | 1/18/2012
The Little Willies: For the Good Times The second album by Norah Jones' twangy side project formed in 2003 bears all the markings of a full-time artist playing around with part-time sounds. | 1/18/2012
Guided by Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory (GBV Inc.) First album in eight years brims with fond looks back at the group’s glory days | 1/11/2012
The Little Willies - For the Good Times (Milking Bull) Norah Jones’ twangy side project has a good time with a dozen songs | 1/11/2012
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The director of Let the Right One In does John le Carré’s spy classic right | 1/4/2012
Ray Charles: Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles Even though his most influential and celebrated work was recorded for Atlantic a decade earlier, Ray Charles' tenure with ABC Records in the 1960s and early '70s... | 12/28/2011
The Who - Quadrophenia: The Director’s Cut (UME) Teenage angst split into four distinct personalities makes for rich work | 12/21/2011
The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish: Deluxe Edition|Siamese Dream: Deluxe Edition (EMI) 20th anniversary rereleases of initial albums make for an interesting trip through the band’s past | 12/21/2011
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here: Experience (EMI) Remastered album reveals new ear-blowing details, plus alternate mixes and live cuts | 12/21/2011
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls The Rolling Stones' last perfect album arrived at a crossroads for the band. They were coming off a string of disappointing albums in the wake of Exile on Main St.... | 11/30/2011
Santasma A roundup of box sets, the traditional no-brainer gift for music fans | 11/24/2011
'Sideways' director dumps a mess of problems on George Clooney Alexander Payne has this thing for mid-life crises. Whether pitting an exasperated high-school teacher against a scheming overachiever in his 1999 breakthrough Election, or ... | 11/20/2011
Sigur Rós - Inni (XL) The celestial Icelandic quartet puts out its first live album | 11/16/2011
Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather (Naïve) Another album of syrupy, moody R&B, easing into semi-funky homegrown grooves | 11/16/2011
Sizing up the 20th century with the cross-dressing head of the FBI It's no secret these days that J. Edgar Hoover was a real bastard. But back in the day he was a paragon of American idealism and fortitude. | 11/11/2011
Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials (Universal Republic) Florence Welch scores with a tremendous sophomore release | 11/9/2011
Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD) On his third solo album as Atlas Sound, Bradford Cox mellows out a bit | 11/9/2011
Tom Waits - Bad as Me (Anti) It’s business as usual for the boozy, bloozy singer-songwriter on his 17th album | 10/26/2011
The Decemberists - Long Live the King (Capitol) An EP of leftovers recalls the band's pre-NPR-approved days | 10/26/2011
Film review: The Ides of March As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics. | 10/10/2011
Nirvana - Nevermind: Deluxe Edition (UMe) After nine years of fat-and-happy records, a disorienting successor | 9/28/2011
Mastodon - The Hunter (Reprise) Not as epic as before, but just as brutally awesome | 9/28/2011
Megafaun - Megafaun (Hometapes) Justin Vernon’s former bandmates are even mellower | 9/21/2011
Wild Flag - Wild Flag (Merge) Members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, the Minders form a supergrrrroup | 9/7/2011
Blondie - Panic of Girls (Noble Id) New release finds the band slipping into those early '80s sun-kissed grooves | 9/7/2011
Zee Avi - Ghostbird (Brushfire/Monotone) Precious, fluffy chill-out music that will lull you to sleep | 8/24/2011
The Horrors - Skying (XL) A foray into 1980s synth-pop territory for a turn at vintage post-punk | 8/16/2011
Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges (Blue Note/EMI) Ten tunes of ragged Americana filtered through a grizzled character | 8/16/2011
Another Earth Another Earth Directed by Mike Cahill Movies can’t just blow your mind with zooming X-wings anymore. They need to blow it on a completely different level, with a totally mind-fucking story to go along with all the fancy CGI effects (cf., The Matri | 8/17/2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes This prequel starts at the very beginning, when a lab chimp injected with a serum to cure Alzheimer’s gives birth to Caesar. | 8/10/2011
Joss Stone - LP1 (Stone'd/Surfdog) Stone's most soulful and unfussy album since her debut | 7/27/2011
Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes (Yep Roc) Super-catchy pop songs that don’t sound all that miserable — on the surface | 7/27/2011
Colbie Caillat - All of You Universal Republic | 7/21/2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Get ready for the best movie in the series and a spectacular finale to this magical universe. | 7/20/2011
Bad Teacher | 6/29/2011
LMFAO - Sorry for Party Rocking The electro-rap duo makes the Black-Eyed Peas' club jams sound like poetry | 6/22/2011
Marianne Faithfull - Horses and High Heels Battle-scarred British singer Marianne Faithfull sounds tired and disconnected | 6/22/2011
Bon Iver - Bon Iver Justin Vernon's rumination on rural America is simply beautiful | 6/22/2011
Mr. Popper’s Penguins A successful real estate developer who lives for business hours and the big score. inherits a penguin from his late explorer father. | 6/22/2011
Beginners In the relationship drama Beginners, retired museum director Hal (Christopher Plummer) decides that his 75th year is the perfect opportunity to tell his son that he’s gay. | 6/22/2011
Owl City - All Things Bright and Beautiful Adam Young's third album has songs about angels, dreams, and butterflies | 6/15/2011
Cults - Cults Boy-girl duo from New York gets part nostalgic, part hipster cool | 6/15/2011
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life A 78-minute concept album is the Toronto sextet's latest | 6/8/2011
The Hangover Part II | 6/1/2011
Ozzy Osbourne: 'Diary of a Madman/Blizzard of Ozz 30th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set' | 5/18/2011
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts A Sonic Youth album is rarely this dull | 5/11/2011
Your Highness This stoner comedy—about two medieval princes on a quest to rescue a beautiful princess, featuring Danny McBride, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel. | 4/20/2011
Rio The latest 3D CGI talking-animal movie is about a rare and pampered pet macaw named Blu from Minneapolis. | 4/20/2011
Hop Hop is the story of two twentysomething slackers with overbearing fathers. One is a jobless human; the other is the future Easter Bunny. | 4/6/2011
Source Code The time-space continuum offers an eon’s worth of problems for filmmakers. How do you get from Point A to Point B without losing grasp of your whole movie? | 4/6/2011
Dr. Mashup A sampled conversation with GT's Gregg Gillis | 2/23/2011
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - III/IV This new collection of studio 'leftovers' rocks out surprisingly hard | 1/5/2011
The King's Speech There’s something about the real-life British monarchy that makes for great onscreen drama. | 12/22/2010

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