Paul Emerson is, honestly, all about the music. The lead singer of pop-rock group Mayday! Mayday! decided to start a band of his own after he saw a live performance by Australian rockers The Living End. Read more...

The amount of recorded music that exists in the world is mind-boggling. Even with the limited scope of contemporary rock, pop, country and hip-hop, sorting through all of it would take a lifetime, three quarters of which would be wasted on awful material. Read more...

Typical images of the 1930s in America: the Great Depression, migrant farm workers, Herbert Hoover. Few think of cinema. But the 1930s mark one of the most heralded decades in movie history. Read more...

Menomena “Friend and Foe” BARSUK RECORDS Portland-based experimental rock group Menomena’s members Brent Knopf, Danny Seim, and Justin Harris don’t write music like other bands do. Read more...

Clinic “Visitations” DOMINO RECORDS Whether it would be better set to a warped neo-noir chase scene or looming through the blue mist of a Tennessee Williams playhouse, Clinic’s music is defined by the uncharacteristic use of its components: irreverent, clanging rhythms and amplified melodic effects lend an air that is nothing short of widescreen. Read more...

All I remember before the crash is Scarlett Johansson’s face. As I wake up in the hospital bed, I struggle to connect the dots. There I was, driving to Hyde Lounge to do some celebrity sighting at 1 a.m. Read more...

While some artists use paintbrushes to make a masterpiece, Samta Benyahia uses the ambiguities between the seen and the unseen. On Sunday, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presented “Architecture of the Veil: An Installation by Samta Benyahia,” which serves as the artist’s U.S. Read more...