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</> A peek at local artist Steve Tenebrini's contribution to "Hit Like a Girl" at The Pink Hobo this weekend, via his Twitter Thursday Band: Dada Trash Collage — This local band is getting...

  Source Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound looks like above picture, but his music sounds more like a smoke-filled southern bog inhabited by sensitive space aliens from the future. More specifically, his...

Growing up, my older sister Krissy used to play the “Rent” soundtrack on a regular basis, and I was puzzled by the sing-song answering machine messages and the occasional breakage from song into outright...

  The 8-song EP is to be released digitally, and buyers can decide how much money to donate to the rapper's efforts to help Haiti. The donations will accompany his friends as...

If you're using a Blogger format to post your musings about music (with MP3 accompaniments), be careful. A few big-name outlets, like Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (I'd put the link but it died), have been...

  Chin Dian Café Food: This restaurant boasts a hybrid of Indian/Chinese cuisine (Chindian – get it?) that includes dishes like lemongrass beef skewers and five-spice shrimp. Their V-day...

Deerhunter's Bradford Cox has gotten a lot of buzz with his solo project Atlas Sound, whose latest album "Logos' is a spacy, melodious electronic goodie bag that feels at once...

Now, I know you guys are all in college and aren’t necessarily whiling away your days in a Sinead O’Connor-style “Nothing Compares to You” relationship. That’s why my particular...

We get lots of weird stuff in the mail. "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" gumball machines, "Indiana Jones" whips, a bottle of dirty brown water (to symbolize moonshine, it turned...

Dear reader - Don't get me wrong. I entertain zero illusions that any of you will actually read this entire list. But, here's why I imagine you might - your tastes are the type that has made iTunes decide...

PHOTO COURTESY DEF JAM There's a time and a place to drag your -ss off off uTorrent and buy one of those round shiny things called a CD, and it's this Friday, when Black Friday sales will surely render...

Photo courtesy Do-While.com.     Of course Minnesota Monthly's tiny people cupcake universe portrays a random sample of tiny Minnesotans that is arguably lacking in diversity, but there's something...

Follow this link here for Tom Johnson's video: https://www.mndaily.com/multimedia/videos/2009/10/07/18-and-silver-bullet

Interview and text by Tony Libera What are your feelings on “Stella” not being renewed for a second season? Do you have any pent up rage about it? MIB: Well, all the pent up rage in my life...

  There's a lot marketed at twentysomethings (tequila, Priuses ... anti-wrinkle cream?), and often times the precise targeting is somewhat transparent, or at least unobtrusive. With a few clicks,...

I got to chat with head A.V. Club writer Nathan Rabin just after I'd finished his new memoir, "The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You By Pop Culture." We talked for about 45 minutes, longer...

SUNDAY: Headliners The Flaming Lips drew in a whole new crowd, this one of varying ages and with a proclivity for costume-wear (panda masks, human-sized banana suits, that kind of thing). Suspense for...

SATURDAY: Union park was packed to the fences today as crowds filtered in to see bands ranging from poetic, deep-voiced songsters The National to recovering-from-valium-cocktail-shame Wavves. How many...

PHOTO COURTESY DOUBLEDAY Those people with all that money and all those ideas in Hollywood have decided that making a Facebook movie could possibly for some reason be good. No, it's not a high-energy...

PHOTO COURTESY FOX ATOMIC Here's the trailer for "Jennifer's Body," by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox. But couldn't they have copied "True Blood's" poster just a bit less obviously? Source

Source  5:08 p.m.: About 400 different sources are reporting that Michael Jackson was taken to a hospital after found unconscious and in cardiac arrest. TMZ, CNN and The New York Post are reporting...

Source For the second time, Stephen King finds himself getting comfy in the pages of Esquire magazine, after they published his "Gingerbread Girl" in 2007. This time, his story has the lofty...

All images: Source London-based artist Graham Rawle is fairly mysterious in his tastes. First of all, he's not only an artist but a writer as well, and most of his works combine wordplay with imagery....

Source Continuing with A&E's new, unofficial "Hot big name actor caught candid" series, here is a passage from Elle magazine's interview with Jason Segel that painted a unique picture of...

Attention all Comparative Lit, Studies in Cinema and Media Culture and any other vaguely artsy majors (as well as anyone who likes, um, culture): your savvy-in-the-making will be very much appreciated...

 A&E just covered the ARTCRANK fest, where local cyclists congregate around bike-centered art. If that got readers curious for more fruits of the bizarre intersection between biking and art, look...

Dan Deacon's latest album of many, "Bromst," dropped last Tuesday, and is a must-listen mixture of Wonka craziness and spooked dance synths. According to Bromst, one of his main inspirations...

Source courtesy IFC Films Robert Pattinson has become known to journalists as a celebrity who cannot bear awkward silences, instead preferring to fill them with confessional-flavored nervous chatter. For...

Source According to our poll, 65% of A&E readers voted that "Watchmen" did not live up to fanboys' high standards for the comic that's its author, Alan Moore, claimed was essentially impossible...

The New York Times published a story called "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City," which compared the encyclopedia to New York City, claiming that they're both unfinished and full of avenues and detours....

Attendees of one of the most irony-infested music fests of the year can despair a bit less at the less-than-impressive line-up; The Flaming Lips are now closing the show. While last year had killer act...

Our generation has seen an unprecedented fading of the split between high and low culture.Trends like Alexander McQueen designing for Target are a testiment to that. One of the main reasons this has occured...

Check out this article from Gawker about Facebook's redesign.

While "Tokyo!", directed by Michel Gondry, Bong Joo-Ho and Leos Carax looks completely frenetic, psychotic and ingenious in itself, some of its contents are inspiring more media that rivals...

Ok, so this isn't really an RSS feed, but in case you're wondering where A&E subscribes, here's the rundown. On my Google page, I get feeds from Advertising Age, USA Today (I don't care if its the...

YouTube certainly has the monopoly on internet video content, but lately Vimeo has been cropping up next to it on search engines and Facebook posts. While the two are different, Vimeo presents an intriguing...

Source Kate Winslet graciously gave thanks while telling Meryl Streep, that she could "just suck [up]" the fact that no one else could even believe they were in a category with her. This speech...

The Oscars had a montage of "What Love Looked Like in 2008," which featured clips from last years' films that depicted couples in love. The montage showed the robots from "WALL-E" several times but never...

Ryu Itadani is the kind of artist whose work needs no explanations. Close ups of product labels seem to entrance him with a focus unrivaled only by his enchantment with strings of flowers and complicated...