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Gateways To Geekery Where to dive into Frank Zappa’s weird, unwieldy discography

Frank Zappa’s grand artistic mission makes for a massive back catalog.

August 9, 2012 | 11:00am -
Loud New releases from Om, Testament, and Mountain Man

The latest from this month's top noisemakers, including new albums from The Howling Wind, Samothrace, and Verse.

August 1, 2012 | 10:00am -
Inventory Best band ever, briefly!: 17 musical acts beloved by TV characters for just one episode

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July 30, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory Mumblecore: 20 memorably inarticulate movie performances

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July 16, 2012 | 12:00am -
Loud July 2012: Nachtmystium, Constants, and more

The latest from this month's top noisemakers, including new albums from Turbonegro, Witchsorrow, and Rumpelstiltskin Grinder.

July 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory Big in Japan (and elsewhere): 29 American cultural entities that found greater popularity overseas

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July 2, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Yorgos Lanthimos

We speak with the director of Dogtooth and Alps about his latest film, the myth of the New Greek Cinema, and not intellectualizing his heady material.

June 25, 2012 | 2:00pm -
Inventory All apologies: 15 creators who apologized for their art and entertainment

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June 25, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire Paul Verhoeven’s Jesus movie resurrected

Roger Avary signs on to write the Robocop director's secular biopic.

June 20, 2012 | 1:00pm -
Inventory “If You Love Somebody, Set Them On Fire”: 26-plus masters of clever/weird/cheeky song titles

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June 11, 2012 | 12:00am -
Loud June 2012: Melvins Lite, Grand Magus, and more

The latest from this month’s top noisemakers.

June 6, 2012 | 1:00pm -
Inventory The unkindest cut: 13-plus movies weakened by directors’ cuts

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June 5, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory The kindest cut: 14-plus movies improved by directors’ cuts

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June 4, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview John Lydon

The former Sex Pistol discusses Public Image Ltd.’s first album in 20 years, getting kicked out of Disneyland for fighting Goofy, and his contribution to world peace.

May 31, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory The Brady Nod: 18-plus works of fictional art that don’t live up to their billing

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May 21, 2012 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Sleep: Dopesmoker

A reissue of a beyond-epic 1996 album promises “a true representation of Sleep’s hour-long Weedian chronicle.”

May 15, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory One bad apple… we can live with that: 31 rotten parts of otherwise fantastic wholes

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May 7, 2012 | 12:00am -
Loud This month's Loud brings new releases from Killing Joke, Cancer Bats, and other top noisemakers

The latest from Killing Joke, Cancer Bats, and the month’s other top noisemakers.

May 2, 2012 | 10:00am -
Interview Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

We talk to the Throbbing Gristle leader and performance artist about pandrogyny, Burroughs, and true love.

April 26, 2012 | 1:00am -
Movie Review Citizen Gangster

Scott Speedman gets the role of a lifetime as Canadian robber and folk hero Edwin Alonzo Boyd.

April 26, 2012 | 12:05am -
Inventory Snaring the listener: 25 iconic snare drum intros

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April 23, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Greg Proops

The once and future king of improv on his podcast, his live shows, and the essence of the Proopsian.

April 16, 2012 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Monsieur Lazhar

This affecting French-Canadian Oscar nominee follows an Algerian immigrant who teaches in a Montreal elementary school.

April 12, 2012 | 12:02am -
Inventory Yes, animals were harmed: 21 films and TV shows that killed or hurt animals

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April 9, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory That’s Eastertainment!: 27 Easter-based entertainments that aren’t Biblical epics

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April 2, 2012 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Goon

In the Slap Shot tradition comes this raunchy Canadian comedy about a bouncer turned minor-league hockey enforcer.

March 29, 2012 | 12:04am -
Interview The Wedding Present's David Gedge

The Wedding Present frontman on revisiting Seamonsters, getting over nostalgia, and the character he plays onstage.

March 26, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory Audiovisual Rosetta Stones: 15 foreign words and phrases we learned from film and TV

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March 26, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory So, the lady or the tiger? 28 stories that make the audience choose the ending

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March 19, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory “The old sow that eats her farrow”: 22 sobering depictions of Irish life

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March 12, 2012 | 12:00am -

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