Becky Sullivan

The Apples in stereohave been turning out impeccable indie pop tunes for nearly 17 years now. The band’s latest album is something a little different:Travellers in Space and Timeis a danceable concept album about time travel. When the band stopped by Studio 360 recently, frontman Robert Schneider told Kurt Andersen that his inspiration for the […]

No soundtrack is more perfect for your 2010 summer than this classic rock from 1991. Songwriter Billy Childish’s bluesy punk rock pairs unbelievably well with the stripped-down vocals from the singer Holly Golightly. There’s not a bad track out of the twelve delightfully brief garage pop tunes. Start with ‘First Plane Home,’ where the catchy […]

Illustration is hardly a new art form — after all, it’s been around for just about as long as stories have, although it’s generally been confined to children’s literature (where it’s thrived). But illustration has recently had a bit of resurgence in the grown-up art world. TakeZak Smith‘sexhaustive projectto depict every page of Thomas Pynchon’s […]

Over the last few days, the internet has ooed and aahed over aviral marketing campaignfrom Old Spice. In just two days, a production team and a charming actor named Isaiah Mustafa created183 short videos; instead of paying for TV airtime, Old Spice simply uploaded them to YouTube. It was the kind of bombshell that the […]

Like most moviegoers afterInception, I left the theatre with a lot of questions about the movie. Last week, we were presented with yet another.Inception’s soundtrackis comprised of two elements: composer Hans Zimmer’s largely ambient, stringy score, and “Non, je ne regrette rien‘ — the classic chanson sung by Edith Piaf, which Leo and his crew […]