While it’s not my habit to clue in people who probably have no need of a clue, the non-S.E.O. headline above is an allusion to Lester Bangs’ seminal essay on the Trogg’s “Wild Thing” and the nascent punk aesthetic (and …

Okkervil River’s “Wake And Be Fine,” off their forthcoming album I Am Very Far, may be the heaviest-sounding track the band has yet produced. Piano keys sound like they are being punched, guitars like they are being beaten rather than …

Do you like pop music? You’ll love this: Julu Road Since the release of Slow Road to Tiny Empire, Minneapolis-based Fan Modine’s first album, in 1998, Gordon Zacharias has been known as an artist who mixes buoyant orchestral pop music …

You probably have to be even older than me to genuinely appreciate the influence of Ernie Kovacs; I knew all the boilerplate stuff about him being one television’s first geniuses and mentally binned him as a sub-Groucho early TV pioneer. …

Hold off the rude jokes for now. I’m actually looking forward to seeing this, which opens in Arkansas in May. Here’s an audio file of an interview recorded yesterday: Jody Foster talks about The Beaver

I missed this one at Tribeca, but I’m hoping to get a review screener. Anyway, it’s one I had circled. And there are two TFF screenings remaining. Go here for details.

I’m a little behind after spending a couple of days at the Tribeca Film Festival but there’s lot of good stuff coming … I promise, including the harrowing tale of the Newark Airport and cowboy pilotry. But today I have …

Frankly gang, I am wiped. Got in at 4 a.m. (thanks Continental) and that was only after dealing with some duplicitous airline types. More on that later. But Tribeca was wonderful, our last day there was great and I still …