San Diego BTW Crocodiles evoke Jesus & Mary Chain, VU, and the Spacemen 3 with their stripped-down, dark noise-pop, but the duo is one of our favorite new bands because they write super songs, not because I'm obsessed with Darklands: It's one thing to own a good set of influences, another thing enti...

Today was a special one-off Frightfest event, which saw the return of the festival to it’s seedbed cinema, The Prince Charles, on Leicester Place in London. There are four separate Film 4 Frightfests a year – a full weekender in August, a Glasgow satellite event, an all-nighter at the ICA and, f...

Hey All, Just wanted to give you all some encouragement through my experience. I have now been quit for 3 years! Praise the Lord! I smoked for around 10 years and had tried many times (even lasting a couple of months) before falling back into temptation. I can now say, even though I get the occasion...

The Boston trio Pretty & Nice construct pop spectacles with guitars, drums, and various electronics. You could mention of Montreal in passing on "Piranha" or "Peekaboo," etc., but more interestingly, think of bands they themselves list as influences like Braniac (a sunnier take on them, but the stru...

Shamelessly ripped off from Here: Tuesday’s Twitter Stream Sonnet 24Feb09 Hiking the hills I might pee my pants National Pancake Day Beer thirty not too far away… Happy Fat Tuesday Oscars left out Don LaFontaine from the parade Hoping to sneak a few zzz’s in my dressing room Might help refine...

So I finally did it - I dropped out of my PhD. What now? So I’ve had therapy, I’ve had medical leave, I’ve had personal leave, I’ve changed topics, I’ve sought advice from careers counsellors, study aids, academics… and I’ve finally admitted to myself that this is just not for me. I ha...

I hate hate hate hate my job. It's killing me, every day, to know that I work for people who have no interest in my well-being while I create utter, meaningless drivel. I don't think I can do this anymore. But I might have an escape. Is it reasonable to quit in light of the economy and the inevitabl...

All good things must come to an end and that includes the association of Girls Next Door star Holly Madison with the Playboy organization.   Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend has resigned from her editorial job at Playboy magazine. Taking her thoughts to Celebrity MySpace, Holly says she isn&#...

First a quick note about the quitting smoking adventure. Food. Bring on the food. Which kind of sucks, as I was hoping to avoid that entirely, but now that things are starting to reset, food has started to come into focus more clearly now. As in the fact that food tastes much better than commit tabl...

Chris Bangle, polarizing and iconic BMW chief design honcho, is quitting "to pursue his own design-related endeavors beyond the auto industry," the German carmaker said Tuesday. A gallery of "Bangle......