Babycastles: straight to the dome The best video game in the universe comes to the American Museum of Natural History. #Longtail

The joy of being Andrew WK Life through the lens of a perennial optimist. #Longtail

Ronald Ruger falls in love A simple man visits a complicated place – the Exxotica porn convention. (Warning: NSFW.) #Longtail

Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields From seed to bloom. #Longtail

The Many Faces of JG Thirlwell Talking to the avant journeyman as he hustles on to the next reinvention. #Longtail

Lovett is a rambling man Trekking his own path for a Highway Collection. #Longtail

Beach House With Beach House, the search for clarity in their meaning is like collecting sand with a strainer. #Longtail

Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous Pulling from the print zine archives for a look back at the man in 2006. R.I.P. #Longtail

200 guitars, redux For anyone present at Damrosch Park last August, the grim scene resembled a rained out multi-guitar funeral. The equipment was covered in plastic, amp... #Longtail

The Cult of the Paper Chase “Please for god sakes lets get on with it, we’ve lived as no other people have lived and loved. You’ve had as much of this world as you are goin... #Longtail

Work-rest-play-die: The Subhumans Call me punk 'cause I wear a leather jacket Call me a hippie 'cause I believe in love and peace Call me an idealist 'cause of songs like this one You ... #Longtail

King Khan the Great It's strange to think that dominating, drug-addled personalities still exist in a society that seems under the strangle hold of composure and puritani... #Longtail

Jazz? "A sense of urgency" Darius Jones, alto sax: "They say you need to play what you hear. But if I do, they say, 'oh, you can't be hearing that.' " Mary ... #Longtail

These words make up the title of the article you are reading. "This is a song. These are the lyrics that I am singing. I play the guitar. My name is Mary. The drummer's name is Kevin. He plays six ply drums. They... #Longtail

Theophilus London Last spring, Theophilus London leaked his Jam! mixtape onto the internet hoping to gain a little attention and set things up for his EP The Charming M... #Longtail

James Pants is the Dude By now, almost everyone knows the story. A high school kid introduces himself to his favorite DJ at a party, which leads to record shopping in Texas, ... #Longtail

A Brief History of Fiasco Fiasco is: A) Like a slap in the face, only more complex B) A sudden and violent collapse C) Just some high school kids D) A wood-covered bottle of wi... #Longtail

House Shows Rising Market Hotel opened its doors in the winter, and Silent Barn has been around for over over a year and a half now, even just since the name change. Bef... #Longtail

Why Baltimore? [OCDJ performing at the Depot's bimonthly "Are We Not Men"?] "There is one common bond between all the bands," says Michael Bouyoucas of Thank You, se... #Longtail

Who is Black Moth Super Rainbow? Who is Black Moth Super Rainbow? That is the immediate and elementary interview question I had for a band that has spent its entirety in the shadows: ... #Longtail

Naledge (of Kidz in the Hall) Jabari Evans has long been an overachiever. Having published his first book of poetry at only 16 (The Straight Jab), and having graduated from an Ivy ... #Longtail

Old Money The 1970 Dustin Hoffman film Little Big Man was a telling marker of the decline of the Western, a genre that dominated American cinema since its incep... #Longtail

iDoc , the Story of Ivan ‘Doc’ Rodriguez He’s worked with EPMD, Eric B & Rakim, KRS-1, LL Cool J and Alicia Keys…He could be the Godfather of Sampling and inventor of hip hop’s belo... #Longtail

Minneapolis is Rhymesayers After a three hour tour with Minneapolis’ biggest music star since Prince, Slug of Atmosphere, it became clear why Rhymesayers had to do it themselv... #Longtail

Jettie What is Jettie? (1) A band from Sweden; (2) A guy named Anders who plays the drums and a guy named Clas who sings and plays the guitar; (3) A duo whos... #Longtail

Panther It began as a bedroom project by Charlie Salas-Humara to stay productive after finishing a run with The Planet The. Now Panther is a duo with an album... #Longtail

Extra Life "The result is contemporary classical music," says Charlie Looker. "Who even checks that shit out?" He's describing the disconnect between music and... #Longtail

Peanut Butter Wolf Most folks in the music business have busier days than the average nine-to-fiver, but for Chris Manak, there’s truly no such thing as leaving his wo... #Longtail

The Glitch Mob While everyone in the record industry is scrambling trying to figure out how music can continue to exist in a bleak future, LA’s ediT and his group,... #Longtail

Mike Ladd As a recording artist, Mike Ladd’s work has always been daring and left-of-center. The Infesticons project on Big Dada examined a battle between rug... #Longtail

Golden Error On most Sunday nights, normal people usually recuperate from the weekend and prepare for the upcoming work week. I find myself tagging along in the Go... #Longtail

Prurient Full disclosure: I am not “into” noise. My buddy Steve Lowenthal started sending me stuff and I listened to everything he sent me, but I most iden... #Longtail

Deer Tick John McCauley, once the only face of Deer Tick, is getting used to sharing stage space with two new band members. After McCauley had already written a... #Longtail

Todd Barry In November, in a tiny basement bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Todd Barry and an intimate audience of 120 people celebrated his twenty-year anniversary ... #Longtail

Yeasayer I caught up with Yeasayer at a special Halloween show deep in the jungles of Greenpoint. Huddled on the street outside a warehouse at two am. They wer... #Longtail

Ohmega Watts In hip hop, you have great MCs and you have great producers. When you can find an individual that steps into both roles with an equal amount of skill... #Longtail

A Walk Down the Delta with Eli Paperboy Reed Listening to Eli “Paperboy” Reed And The True Loves is a bit like taking a journey through the Mississippi Delta to the sounds of classic rhythm a... #Longtail

Ponytail Known for its infectious jams and barnyard noise lyrics, Ponytail is a Baltimore Art School four-piece with the pomp and preposterousness to become th... #Longtail

Clip'd Beaks "We've pretty much all seen each other naked and been exposed to various bodily functions by now." Scott, Ray, Nic and Greg live together. Well they d... #Longtail

Holy Fuck Some may consider their name vulgar, but as Brian Borcherdt points out, people don’t use the phrase “holy fuck” when they’re pissed off. “It... #Longtail