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The Glass Passenger: a few good splinters The bright, summery rock of Jack's Mannequin's debut record Everything In Transit was a pleasant surprise a few years back. Piano-driven hooks, infectious on a pandemic level, played off of morose, wounded lyrics to make the album an unlikely maste [more...]

Secret Machines: Alive and Intact There’s something tragic about a brother act that splits—particularly when that act is the Secret Machines. At first glance, one might even think that Warner Bros. had it right to drop them from the record label--once they got the news that the brother le [more...]

What We Do Is Secret (or at least, it should have remained so) You already know the story, even if you've never heard of the Germs. A misunderstood young genius (Here, it's Shane West as Darby Crash) forms a band, goes through a rocky start, and eventually finds fame. [more...]

Compelling and Conflicting: Cobain Unseen In a new book, Charles R. Cross fills in the missing piece to the biography of Kurt Cobain. Seven years after publishing Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Cobain Unseen (Little, Brown) chronicles the artistic life... [more...]