"? pics of BLOC PARTY @ Webster Hall & FOALS @ Lollapalooza | Main | the list of 88 drummers playing 8 / 8 / 8 (in LA) ? Posted in music on August 7, 2008 the list of 88 drummers playing 8 / 8 / 8 (in NYC) Today..."

"Think Fantastic by Molly Young Netherland by Joseph O’Neill 256 pages Pantheon Books A good novel and a good ping-pong match share many qualities: virtuosity, grace, unpredictability and wild maneuvering. They are also impossible to recount and boring to hear about. This is an apologia, by the way. I am..."

"Life-Altering by Lauren Bans The Wackness dir. Jonathan Levine 95 min. Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness is basically the Jewish version of Good Will Hunting. Luke Shapiro, a drug dealing, mildly unpopular Jewish kid pretending to be black befriends (and sells pot to) Dr. Squires, a crazy Jewish psychiatrist. A beautiful,..."

"We're big fans of this generation's Randy Newman; the sultan of song, proud Nashvillian, friend to the shat: Mr. Ben Folds, so imagine our glee when these detail showed up in our inbox this morning after waiting three years for a follow-up to his last full-length solo LP (of new..."

"? This Week's Interesting Music Releases (July 1st, 2008) | Main Largehearted Boy Page July 1, 2008 Daily Downloads (Paper Route, Gazelle, and more) Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Doleful Lions: "White Lotus Day" [mp3] from 7 other Doleful Lions music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Gazelle: "The First..."