He obfuscates the present. He fabricates the past. His record label has released 180 albums in the past three years. Agitating for a new aural order with Matthew St-Germain.

Fireball Espresso Café Keeps an Eye on Local Hip Hop

If you snooze through Detroit's Slumber Party, you may miss the sound of their alarm

Neo-retroists Clinic and the Strokes raid the graves of punkers past

Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi thinks deep about getting down

Critics choose not to see a darkness in Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst

From panel discussions to boobs aflame, feminism and punk rock form a holy union at Chicago's Ladyfest

Drummer JT Bates and his Fat Kid Wednesdays make a weighty impression on the local improv-jazz scene

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

Norman Andersen creates dissonant sculptures that perform spontaneously and think independently. But what if they revolt against their master?

My Morning Jacket's At Dawn sounds like a country of sadness

The Danielson Famile put the fun back into fundamentalism

Faux Jean applies for the job of Best Band in the World

Going underground to the hiding place of the new indie scene

With The Red Thread, Arab Strap commits atrocities against romance

With her latest novel, The Weight of All Things, Sandra Benítez argues for the redemptive powers of narrative confession

America's sweethearts create borderline chemistry in The Mexican

The Walker's eighth "Women with Vision" series offers global cinema as a form of self-understanding

A collection of photographs, China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic, spurs Chinese immigrants to take a great leap backward into the nation's past

In the post riot-grrrl sweepstakes, the Donnas lust for control, while Le Tigre looks for liberation