j dilla, r.i.p.

Dilla, the talented hip-hop producer, died at the age of 32 earlier this year. The Shining was the album he was working on near the end, and...

crumb

Crumb , Terry Zwigoff's great documentary about his friend Robert Crumb, will be playing at the Aero on Sunday, October 1 as part of a ...

studio 60 on the sunset strip

Aaron Sorkin's new NBC drama, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , is the sort of sophisticated, flashy character piece you'd expect from...

how have we changed since 9/11? don't ask us.

John Powers has a fine essay in the LA Weekly about the incessant desire in the media and within both political parties to use the anniver...

lambchop

The Kurt Wagner-led Nashville alt-country band return with a new album, Damaged . I think it's one of their best.

zach braff gets serious

The Last Kiss plays like a somber version of Zach Braff's Garden State , but despite this new film's ambitions to be significant an...

keep your 9/11 away from my 9/11

The anniversary of 9/11 always depresses me, but it goes beyond the memory of what happened five years ago. Nowadays, it's the way certa...

bob dylan

Modern Times isn't up to the level of Dylan's other recent albums. Sorry, it's true. Elsewhere in Consumables, I go nuts for Ne...

the album leaf

Jimmy LaValle, the electronica musician who is the Album Leaf, is an unassuming nice guy. I know because I interviewed him about two years ...

jody rosen on robert christgau

Slate 's Jody Rosen has a noteworthy appreciation on Robert Christgau's legacy . While I disagree with some of Rosen's nitpicks ...

talking to patricia foulkrod

Patricia Foulkrod is the director of The Ground Truth , a new documentary about the horrors that befall our troops once they return home fro...

robert christgau and "breakfast with the beatles": say it ain't so

As we slide into Labor Day weekend, there are two sad stories on my radar. First, is that Robert Christgau has been let go from the Village ...