Dallas Buyers Club: The Lengths You're Willing to Run
Dallas Buyers Club – and its phenomenal star Matthew McConaughey – examines the desperation and grasps at hope that characterized the 1980s AIDS pandemic.
Both Sides of the Coin: John Mayer's Paradise Valley
At an age when most of his peers are striving to recapture a youthful swagger, John Mayer’s applying for early admission to the nursing home. With Paradise Valley, Mayer’s still holed up in his mental log cabin, but he’s closer to that total broski-zen he’s been trying to achieve.
Both Sides of the Coin – Washed Out's Paracosm
Heads The good news is we can hold out on the “washed up” puns for a little longer. They’ll hit the Internet someday, but not because of Paracosm. The band’s blissfully summer-struck sophomore album pops with all the sonic sugar…
Both Sides of the Coin: Speedy Ortiz's Major Arcana
The least surprising thing about Speedy Ortiz’s debut disc is that the lead singer was formerly in a Pavement cover band. Nope, it doesn’t really seem like she’s moved on much from Babement.
Both Sides of the Coin: Daughn Gibson's Me Moan
Daughn Gibson is a dust-coated cowboy who croons like The National. He’s a flannel-thick Pennsylvania barker with a band that plays semi-westerns with a Kid A-passion. No, no, he is drunk woodsy warbler lost in a dark trance, a fat-bear Bowie dancing on a striped ball beat in edge-town bar…
4 Years Gone: Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Man on the Moon: The End of Day, the debut album from Cleveland native and noted curmudgeon, Kid Cudi, is effectively hip-hop’s answer to The Cure’s Disintegration, a web of sprawling self-reflection and faux-philosophy that has soundtracked the shotgunning of Natural Ice cans with surprising longevity.