A group of nine unique, handcrafted ragdolls equipped with bizarre mechanical parts are the last stand for humanity in a post-machine takeover world. Well, it looks like hallucinogenic drugs are...
Though not for the faint of heart, Gamer is gory fun.
The pioneer of Mafioso rap offers some sage advice to the aspiring gangster on “Black Mozart.” “You better get that money, no matter what you do.” Setting the lyric to the ominous theme score from...
In Prism witnesses yet another change in direction, almost altogether ignoring their last album while harnessing the psychedelic exploration of Exploded Drawing into an attentive, purposeful sound....
Formed in 1984, Yo La Tengo is the quintessential indie rock band, still on independent label Matador after 12 solid LPs. Still, the title of their newest album, Popular Songs, is a tongue-in-cheek...
The photographs in the exhibition, like the objects in Mitchell’s collection and the characters in his stories, capture the ethos at the heart of effective art. In the accurate and careful detail...
Now, locally based artist Jerstin Crosby has recreated this act of eco-terrorism in a new art exhibition appropriately titled If You Build It We will Burn It at Raleigh’s Lump gallery. The show is...
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, henceforth the band you will know as impossible to find in the alphabetized album shelves, plays the Cat’s Cradle Sept. 15. recess writer Brian...
recess writer Brian Contratto talked to lead vocalist and guitarist Conrad Keeley, who also contributed original visual art to the tour, about moving to New York, the Austin scene and his art.
What if the characters you control in Halo and Call of Duty were living, breathing human beings? In their newest film, the minds behind Crank aim to answer just that.
I will go on record to argue that some of Duke’s most sexually active people have never had sex.
“If You Build It We Will Burn It.” The Earth Liberation Front issued this ominous threat in 2003 on a banner hung from the charred remnants of a San Diego condominium, the ruins of a massive attack...
Spending the afternoon in front of The Collector: Joseph Mitchell’s Quotidian Quest, an exhibition of photography at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, is like spending a long afternoon...
It’s important now to look back at the contributions of all those we lost in this year’s Summer of Death.
The pioneer of Mafioso rap offers some sage advice to the aspiring gangster on “Black Mozart.” “You better get that money, no matter what you do.”
Formed in 1984, Yo La Tengo is the quintessential indie rock band, still on independent label Matador after 12 solid LPs.
Best known as a college radio station staple over a decade ago, Polvo returns with its new album, In Prism—their first in 12 years—with hopes of revisiting the off-rock heyday of the 1990s.