Matchbook Romance “Voices” Epitaph Records Matchbook Romance realized what many emotion-ridden bands of today have yet to discover ““ screaming instead of singing won’t grant you immortality in the music world. Read more...

Very few people have the ability to make a comeback after being gone for over a quarter century. However, if there was anyone up to the challenge, it would be Alice Coltrane. Read more...

Arctic Monkeys “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” Domino Records The Arctic Monkeys must be doing something right. The pop-rock quartet nearly beat out Oasis as the fastest-selling U.K. Read more...

If there’s one thing The Four Hipsters of the Apocalypse ““ the four immaculately dressed editors who run the arts and entertainment section ““ hate, it’s publicists. Read more...

“Tale of Cinema” Directed by Hong Sang-soo Undistributed Of Korea’s major directors, Hong Sang-soo may be the least marketable. This is a tall order, considering his relatively tame content contains none of the extreme sadomasochism ““ a man mutilating himself by swallowing a line of fishhooks in Kim Ki-duk’s “The Isle,” another pulling teeth as a form of torture in Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” ““ often associated with the recent cinema from the country. Read more...

Richard Kline has been a cinematographer longer than most UCLA students have been alive ““ long enough to remember a time when artistic innovation was not as appreciated in the film industry as it is now. Read more...

Beth Orton “Comfort of Strangers” Astralwerks Records In 1996, Beth Orton was canonized into the genre of trip-hop with her debut “Trailer Park,” which established her as the woman who brought folk-rock sensibility to the burgeoning electronic generation. Read more...