Here is my review of Comedown Machine, the latest album from The Strokes:   What? ** Here is my track-by-track breakdown of the album: 1. “Tap Out” – What? 2[...]

Girls, Season Two. It was going to be different, went the rally cry! Revolutionary! Bastion of the new television! Well, here’s what you’re not supposed to say: these girls are no [...]

Odd Future makes rap music for people who hate rap music. Odd Future makes soundtracks for people who fantasize about walking into an Apple store in slow motion. Odd Future is a Yo[...]

On Tuesday, February 19, I spearheaded the release of the fourth issue of CARTEL, the e-magazine I started in the spring of 2012. This issue, which is easily the best I’ve helped p[...]

I saw him in Los Angeles one day. He was just another older guy with thinning hair and an awesome gray ZZ Top-style beard. If you didn’t know who he was, you might surmise that he [...]

One time a middle-aged man I had never seen before walked straight through my apartment’s front door while I was standing by my stove, cooking stir-fry in a wok. I was completely n[...]

Friday Night Lights is probably my favorite television show of the last decade, and I thought I’d commemorate its untimely passing by running through a completely arbitrary and in-[...]

Late last year, I stumbled upon an article titled “Last Meals Before Execution,” featuring, as one might suspect, a slideshow of death row prisoners and their last meal requests, a[...]

I’m standing in a packed venue in Echo Park, watching a band called Kitten, and I am annoyed. I am annoyed because the band in front of me, which consists of an eighteen-year-old g[...]

 “This is a brand-new song. This is a premiere, I guess. I’d like to dedicate this to Christiano’s Restaurant. This is called, uh, ‘Scenes From an Italian Restaurant.’” These words[...]