Ben Munson's posts

1. Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices 
The remarkably prolific Robert Pollard has a seemingly inexhaustible ability to…

Four years wasn’t so long to wait for Feist’s 2011 album, Metals, considering how full of surprises her previous…

Considering the insane levels of fun packed into its first two movies, Chicago found footage group Everything Is…

Lewis Black rose to prominence thanks in no small part to the presidency of George W. Bush and its resultant outrage…

Three years, a stack of books, countless records, and a semester’s worth of class gives you an idea of how much…

1. Childbirth process gone wrong
Kids are an easy, obvious button for storytellers to press. So many people are…

1. Ghostbuster: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Extreme Ghostbusters, etc.
America’s unemployment rate is falling…

By now, a lot of people know that Detroit MC and producer Black Milk wasn’t trying to be a cock by naming his latest…

Jeremiah Nelson feels like his 2010 was an epic failure musically. His band The Achilles Heel called it quits and…

1-2. Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man series
Introduced in Dashiell Hammett’s 1934 novel The Thin Man, Nick and…

Madison comedian Mike Schmidt recently emerged victorious from a field of 62 stand-ups who entered the Comedy Club…

1. Vernon family hunting cabin (Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago) 
There’s no more obvious example in recent years of…

Rob Matsushita’s bloodlust sometimes seems insatiable, but never without purpose. In Massacre: The Musical, a film…

1. Laurel Canyon (2002)
In most American stories, sex (or at least the romantic hookup that implies sex to come) is…

Besides his main gig playing drums for Madison's Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, Jordan Cohen plays in projects varying…

Milo Burke, The Ask
Milo Burke failed to make it as a painter and ends up working as professional ass-kisser at an…

When Trevor Carl Ives needed a focus for writing the songs on his band Meridene’s second album, Something Like Blood,…

Garnering the approval of critics doesn’t seem to be nearly as gratifying to Fang Island as drawing the praise of a…