What you’d expect from a studio offcuts album would be experimental arrangement, quirky instrumentals, understated vocals. Stage Whisper, to the listener’s surprise, is not that; rather, it is a compact release of a mere seven tracks, filled with disco b

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a man of many talents. Having already proven his worth as an actor in both drama and comedy (on TV and on the big screen), exposing himself as a pretty damned good impersonator of Serge Gainsbourg, as well as running his own colla

What a short, strange road it's been for Lana Del Rey: The puffy-mouthed pop throwback was an internet lightning rod for months before her big, Saturday Night Live coming-out party. That, as even your mother now knows, didn't go too well. Then her debut

Sunderland siblings Peter and David Brewis, aka Field Music, draw on influences as wide-ranging as Stravinsky, Stax R&B, Fleetwood Mac, Serge Gainsbourg, Thelonious Monk and Kate Bush. So far they have released three acclaimed albums, but in the Capital

Here, we take a slightly different tack, matching returning librarian interviewer Kate Sheehan with Valla Vakili, CEO and cofounder of Small Demons, not a publisher but a web startup that bills itself as ground zero of the “storyverse.” Like libraries an

The story goes like this: Just a couple of years ago, Leonard Cohen was a septuagenarian retiree, more or less done with music, living in a Buddhist monastery in California. He stopped touring in 1993, and his last studio album, Dear Heather, came out in