Witch breathes new life into Metal

How to come of age watching a coming-of-age movie

Revisiting the Rolling Stones' flawed masterpiece

Grant Morrison takes Superman apart and puts him back together

The Hostess Fruit Pie perseveres through the postmodern age

The battle for reality is being fought in modern video games

George Lucas’s "Star Wars Holiday Special" is a kitsch and crappy Christmas classic

At Christmastime, it’s best to do whatever Dean Martin tells you to do

The Deadly Snakes return from the butcher’s shop with their new album Porcella

WFMU keeps all us weirdoes tuned to the same wavelength

Confusion reigns supreme in the latest DC Comics debacle

How Friendster is unwiring social networks

The time-travel film Primer proves nothing, but enthralls everyone

A guide to Marvel Comics’ new movie adaptations

The Life and Times of Dinosaur Jr.

Why It Sucks

"Jon Spencer is a paradox: he screams for you to pay attention to him, but he doesn’t really have anything to say."

Robert Pollard’s From a Compound Eye

A Story of Geekdom

No Hot Love on the Hot-Love Highway

American Idol’s Parade of Ineptitude

Brian Wilson and SMiLE at Carnegie Hall

Rolling out the Assholes

"If you wanted to create a family drama, though, Walker could be the father, the crazy uncle, the crazy neighbour, the insouciant teen or the token gumshoe. "

Women who rock.

The dark years of mid-eighties cable programming

"Fear Factor is not the kind of show that fills me with hope. "

"I found myself uncertain of what I was being sold."