With the controversy that has surrounded the art collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer for the last 70 or so years, it’s a miracle their works are even on display in the United States at all. Read more...

Richard Thompson found it strange that Playboy magazine would ask him to compile a list of the 10 best songs of the last 1,000 years. But he decided to fulfill the request anyway. Read more...

They say rock ‘n’ roll will never die. But what if rock isn’t an idea, but a man? Allow me to explain. Looking back at the rock music canon, a number of artists grasped the parts but not the whole: The Beatles helped develop the pop song, as well as a healthy desire to test the genre’s limits, Bob Dylan reinvented folk, and Led Zeppelin showed what guitars are capable of. Read more...

When Amy Adrion decided to apply to film school, she gave it one shot. “I only applied to UCLA,” she said. “I didn’t apply anywhere else.” But it wasn’t the Hollywood lifestyle and L.A. Read more...

What Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle described as “erosion” when referring to the state of his band is only an afterthought considering the repair that comes in the form of the band’s fifth and final album, “Just Like the Fambly Cat.” Though the band might have broken up for good, it stayed together for a final comeback, and a shimmering one at that. Read more...

Although the origins behind the personage of Gnarls Barkley remain intriguingly undisclosed, it is no secret that “St. Elsewhere,” the first collaboration album between Atlanta rapper and singer Cee-Lo and mix-master producer Danger Mouse is likely to be the most genre-bending album of the summer. Read more...

Eddie Argos is out to save rock and roll. Here’s why: Armed with little more than a decent speaking voice, an album with only three songs passing the three-minute mark, and a complete disregard for what qualifies music as “good” anymore, he has taken the pretentiousness of many of today’s best artists and shoved it right back in their faces. Read more...