They’ve probably heard this said about them a million times, but Matt and Kim are just so goddamn cute. I mean, just take one look at them—tell me you don’t look at the fresh-faced couple and think, “Man, I have never seen such an adorable couple before in my…

By now, most people know Matthew Paul Miller as Matisyahu, the American-born Hasidic Jewish reggae artist who emerged on the scene in 2004 as an interesting character in the world of reggae and alternative music. Matisyahu’s music, and his fan-base, is more similar to that of bands like 311…

To begin working on their latest album, Circuital, My Morning Jacket returned to their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and set up shop in a church gymnasium. Their intent at first was to begin doing demos for what would eventually become the album. But then, something happened: A honey-coated moment…

NEW YORK, NY—Glenn Danzig’s first real record, Static Age, recorded in 1978 with his band The Misfits, helped spike horror imagery into the vein of American music. Danzig then built a bridge between punk and metal with his transcending band Samhain, while at the same time adding a layer…

Ashes & Fire is Ryans Adams’ first album of new material since 2008’s Cardinology, after which the prolific songwriter disbanded his group, The Cardinals, and took a long and well-deserved hiatus. Adams’ had been writing, recording, and touring for almost 10 years straight at that point, including a banner…

I’m hesitant to call Lulu, the collaboration album by Lou Reed and Metallica, awful; only because doing so would be an acknowledgement that it exists. It’s much better to pretend that Lulu was never made in the first place, better to pretend like it was a really bad nightmare…

Portishead’s Adrian Utley has teamed up with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp to create a new score for the classic 1928 French film, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc. Long regarded as a masterpiece of cinema, director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s film about the last days of Joan of Arc will be…

All photos by Eric Berkow

The history of what was intended to be the peaceful protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street is hazy at best. But by most accounts, the protests—which began on Sept. 17, in Zuccotti Park, the privately owned but publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan—had…

Portishead is not the kind of band that does things in the typical sort of way. They don’t put a record out every two to three years, nor are they on an endless touring cycle. But in between the lengthy moments of silence, which at points in their career…

The process of making records can take a considerable amount of time. Providing insight into how his band ticks, Death Cab For Cutie bassist Nick Harmer shares with me that Death Cab has a “very collaborative process, and it does take time,” and how they’re “kind of on a…