Subject: The Modern Lovers

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Q&A with Matt Wolf, director of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, screening at the Denver Film Festival

    An image from Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell. The ongoing Denver Film Festival features a great many cinematic attention magnets, several of which have been covered in this space. (Examples include "The Brothers Bloom Flowers to Open the Denver Film Festival," "Grappling with Th ... More >>

  • Music

    August 8, 2002

    GoGoGo Airheart

    An image from Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell. The ongoing Denver Film Festival features a great many cinematic attention magnets, several of which have been covered in this space. (Examples include "The Brothers Bloom Flowers to Open the Denver Film Festival," "Grappling with Th ... More >>

  • Music

    January 5, 2006

    Weird Al-right

    Two decades on, Little Fyodor is still strange, witty and real.

  • Music

    April 10, 2003

    Space Is the Place

    Thank God for Astronauts launches some heavenly pop.

  • Music

    October 17, 2002

    The Maybellines

    Chatfield Holiday (Best Friends)

  • Music

    February 28, 2002

    Jonathan Richman

    Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow (Vapor)

  • Music

    December 12, 1996

    The Gravity of the Situation

    Maids of Gravity frontman Ed Ruscha tries to play the music game his way.

  • Music

    November 7, 1996

    Cool Jerk

    Getting on a new track with Railroad Jerk.

  • Music

    April 25, 1996

    Spoon Tunes

    Getting on a new track with Railroad Jerk.

  • Music

    March 15, 1995

    IF YOU WERE A RICHMAN...

    ...YOU'D BE THE CRANKIEST GENIUS IN ROCK AND ROLL.

  • Calendar

    March 15, 1995

    THRILLS

    ...YOU'D BE THE CRANKIEST GENIUS IN ROCK AND ROLL.

  • Music

    October 19, 1994

    HERE COMES THE NEW BOSS

    ...YOU'D BE THE CRANKIEST GENIUS IN ROCK AND ROLL.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Last night: Jonathan Richman at Lion's Lair

    Jonathan RichmanWednesday, July 1, 2009Lion's LairBetter than: Seeing an energetic and earnest singer/songwriter play at the Bluebird or the Fillmore. It seemed perfectly appropriate that Jonathan Richman opted to perform in the cramped confines of the Lion's Lair. The bar's small scope and understa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of March 8, 2010

    ​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. ... More >>