Matt Hanson
The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value is what drives the action.
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Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.
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With the release of “Wild God,” his stirring 18th studio album, it seems as if the charismatic poète maudit has achieved, and more impressively maintained, his own version of peace.
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If the show had its format tweaked a little bit, it might hit a sweet spot: somewhere between “The Daily Show”’s investigative reports and Conan O’Brien’s zanier segments.
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Gary Clark Jr.’s “JPEG RAW” could be seen as an orchard whose far-reaching sonic branches — nurtured by the rich, fertile, and ancient soil of the blues — stretch into jazz, hip hop, and funk.
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“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” was the only record of the Flaming Lips that I knew in any real depth; it turns out that the band’s live show was heartwarming, a buoyant and visually exuberant experience.
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Cindy Lee’s “Diamond Jubilee” is nothing if not immersed in its own inner world. That’s part of its complexity, its strength, and its beauty.
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This brilliant novel is not only out to subvert narrative expectations, but to undercut the act of reading itself.
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Don’t underestimate the elemental power of a story that takes the reader inside the mind and heart of a good and decent man caught in a helpless situation.
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The group’s first record of new material in well over a decade, “Hackney Diamonds” isn’t quite a bad Rolling Stones record but it’s decidedly not a good one.
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