The Anniversary

Hugh Laurie, gaunt and bearded, limps down a hospital hallway as images from old medical textbooks fill the screen. Brad Pitt, ashy and greasy and…

Remember ephemera? I mean, you're not supposed to -- it's short-term material meant to leave a vague informational imprint on your mind before receding to…

"We just need to get warmed up here before we get into the real business of the evening," Scott Hutchison said, onstage in Manhattan in…

At this point, we're used to it. After years of living with one revival after another, retro culture is inextricably woven into our contemporary experience.

The late '90s were a heady time for hopeful, plucky alt-rock hits that would forever soundtrack senior class montages, and I’m not sure I’ll ever…

If you want a look back at the pre-Gaga world, you could do a lot worse than the blog Pop Culture Died In 2009: a…

The first time I saw R.E.M. was in June of 2008. They were in the midst of touring in support of their 14th full-length album,…

I only saw Pulp once. A few weeks after they released This Is Hardcore, the much-anticipated follow-up to their critically beloved and UK-conquering breakthrough Different…

In the late '70s, punk rock was regularly credited, by its practitioners and champions, as the big reset button rock music needed -- a severing…

In the late '90s, nobody wanted to get left behind. This was the electronica moment, the time when plenty of press and industry types were…

Devotion opens with a greeting. Not the "hello" that Victoria Legrand utters 20 seconds in, but the swath of sound that comes right before it.

When you were young you were not the king of carrot flowers, but you probably tried to learn "The King Of Carrot Flowers" on acoustic…

I went to my first Pearl Jam show in 2006. They were my favorite band at that point, and I'm sure I was excited at…

"The kids don't stand a chance," Ezra Koenig sang, closing out Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut -- released 10 years ago today -- with a pronouncement…

On the cover of Air's 1998 debut album, in small letters next to the duo's logo, are the words "French Band." A lot of people…