Interviews
Emmanuel Jal
For Sudanese child-soldier-turned-hip-hop-artist Emmanuel Jal, the wreckage of childhood trauma and the courage to persevere comes out on the title track of his album Warchild: “I’m a war child / I believe I’ve survived for a reason / To tell my story, to touch lives.”
Aaron Cohen: The Slave Hunter
Aaron Cohen travels around the world like a one-man army, fighting sweatshops, sex slavery, and human exploitation by liberating one person at a time.
No Age
The space fills with the warmth of carefully orchestrated noise pouring from Randy Randall’s grimy guitar layers and Dean Spunt’s thump-thump drums. The Ukrainian Culture Center is at a confluence of Los Angeles’s old-guard zine punks and the new school’s viral video generation of digipunks. But No Age is old school.
Summer Bishil
Sometimes, an actor’s career begins with an ending. “Yup, I was a tail-end of a dinosaur,” says Summer Bishil…
Alex Gibney: Director “Gonzo” the Hunter S. Thompson Documentary
“Gonzo style is a series of riffs: partly truth, partly fiction—sometimes pure fiction—with serious reporting. I also think it represented being “gone”—being able to ingest a lot of drugs. Hunter was Gonzo in that sense too…”
Cam Gigandet
Playing the role of the arrogant, underground fighter in the film Never Back Down, Gigandet channels the spirit of every prep-school pretty boy and trust-fund meathead you’ve ever met in this Karate Kid for the twenty-first century.
Eric “McSteamy” Dane
It was then that I found myself reclined on an oversized ball—
both the shape and color of a clown’s nose—while Eric Dane, the actor and
purported “hottie” of the TV show Grey’s Anatomy, uttered encouraging words as I
attempted to use a contraption that looked like it should be used only for drawing
and quartering, not developing super-rad pecs.
Interview: Voxhaul Broadcast
The ceiling fan chops at the yolky light, barely illuminating the singer’s face. He closes
his eyes and opens his mouth wide to belt a rough and soulful series of “la la la la’s” into the microphone.
He faces the back of a burnt-orange, vintage organ, its top cluttered with empty cigarette
packs, beer bottles, and a pair of aviator sunglasses, as the guitarist swings his own instrument to the side
and steps in front of the keyboard, massaging a swell of sixties surf sounds from the organ’s groaning belly.
From two corners of the room comes…
The Black Keys and Danger Mouse
Somewhere in the twentieth century, the foot-stompin’, dobro pluckin’ songs of the sons
and daughters of slavery were appropriated and transformed—Led Zeppelin borrowed from Lead Belly,
Stevie Ray Vaughan from Buddy Guy—and at the turn of the millenium, blues became the soundtrack to
yuppie ennui: John Mayer waxed disingenuous and Starbucked the blues, Kenny Wayne Shepherd shredded
on Letterman, and the entire franchise of The House of Blues sprouted up like suburban mushrooms…
Interview: Topher Grace
Topher Grace is all grown up.
Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn discusses his debut film, Control about the life of Ian Curtis
Interviews: Vince Vaughn and Comics of “Wild West Comedy Show”
Interviews with Vince Vaughn and the comics of Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show
Interviews: The Extreme Skiers of “Steep”
Interviews with extreme skiers Andrew McLean and Ingrid Backstrom, stars of documentary Steep
Interviews: Julian Schnabel and cast of “Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Interview with director/artist Julian Schnabel, screenwriter Ron Harwood and the cast of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti on “Fred Claus”
Vince Vaughn and Pal Giamatti discuss their film, “Fred Claus”
Fussible from Nortec Collective
Tijuana is a schizophrenic city. It’s a place with a reputation for cartel violence, cheap face-lifts and drunken escapades by American college students. But underneath the myths of this sprawling border metropolis exists a burgeoning art and music scene that thrives on these contradictions. It’s where the Nortec Collective’s Bostich + Fussible cultivate their hybridized dance beats, which keep one foot on each side of the border and create ass-shaking jams infused with norteño, the sabor of Northern Mexican folk music.
Ryan Gosling
In a small community, a young man pushes a wheelchair in which rests the upright, silicon body of a sex doll named Bianca.
Dan “Nitro” Clark
Dan Lee Clark “Nitro”
Is there anything more nineties than watching spandexed jocks dueling with oversized q-tips for a studio audience? Not if you remember American Gladiators, the TV show where amateur athletes performed feats of strength, agility, and yes, some strategy, against superhero-bodied “gladiators” whose job it was to deliver beatdowns, all on a chintzty […]
Punks Jump Up
Punks Jump Up are DJs David and Joe, Swedish and English, respectively. Their beats could make your dead grandma shake that ass.
Interview: Cameron Diaz in London
“Green” carpet interview with Cameron Diaz at the premiere of Shrek 3
