Scott Thill

From My Bloody Valentine's recently announced reissues and rarities to the April release of Spiritualized's new sonic spacewalk Sweet Heart Sweet Light, synesthetic rock is returning from orbit. But its best-kept secret still remains Swervedriver, whose muscular guitar atmospherics are also thankfully back in action, starting Monday night...

Elected mayor of New York City two months after 9/11, Michael Bloomberg has changed political affiliations three times in the last decade, made exponential billions by digitizing our lightspeed information economy, evolved beyond a person into an elite corporate personhood, and, after extending his cosmopolis' term limits, served three...

Information wants to be free, the aphorism goes, especially when it comes to science. But when it comes to explaining how a lethally airborne avian influenza pandemic transmits among humans, freed information evidently crosses over into terrorism. This is in spite of the fact that, when it comes to...

Mass extinction is finally fighting its way back into the news cycle, thanks to recently scary reports on climate change from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean, the United Nations Environment Program and the July issue of Science. But University of...

It's exceedingly hard to communicate the importance of a historical figure like John Lennon. The founder and most cerebral member of The Beatles, who settled on their band and brand name 50 years ago this August, would have celebrated his 70th birthday Saturday if not for...

Riding on the back of nine minutes of unseen footage, the special
edition of James Cameron's pioneering 3-D masterpiece Avatar returned
to theaters last week. But billions of dollars and path-breaking
cinematic innovations later, it's hard to ignore the part of Avatar's
comeback that tastes like...

"This disaster is not set to happen in some science fiction future many years ahead, but in our lifetime," Tony Blair warned shortly after acclaimed economist Sir Nicholas Stern calculated the costs of the climate crisis clusterfuck in 2006. "Investment now will pay us back many...

With apologies to the excellent Michael Moore, and his desire to bail out the Big Three that he claims have been more "responsible than almost anyone for the destruction of our fragile atmosphere and the daily melting of our polar ice caps," but I'm not buying it.

Three...

The McCain-Palin ticket is dead in the water, sundered by its allegiance to the Bush administration's disaster capitalism and foundering on a strategy basically designed to piss off rednecks and ignore everyone else. That's not a winning blueprint, and thank the Big Bang for that. Rather, it's political suicide and...

Saul Williams is an artist whose tentacles reach into every sphere of entertainment. He's a spoken-word wonder, an actor, a musician, an entertainment visionary and, most recently an accidental pitchman for Nike. It's a curious move: Williams' tune "List of Demands" is an anti-poverty anthem that blasts hyperconsumption...

Adam Mansbach is a dude of many hats. A hip-hop poet that can recite histories old-school and new without missing a beat, especially in his acid satire Angry Black White Boy. An author who lives in Berkeley, grew up in Boston and can freestyle in Brooklyn without weak...

Last July, I took a novice's look at hedge funds, housing, gambling and America's ass-backwards foreign policy and declared what I thought to be the obvious. The spiel landed on Alternet in the form of a supposedly sensational article called The Crash of 1929: Are We on the Verge...

"I'm overwhelmed/I'm on repeat," Michael Stipe sings on "Hollow Man," probably the quietest song on R.E.M.'s incredible, jagged release Accelerate, due out March 31 to the rest of the world and America on April Fool's Day. It's a potent dose of post-millennial anger that...

I'm not going to predict that Obama sweeps the rest of the states as surely as he has in Iowa's Democratic primary, especially on the eve of New Hampshire's tally. But I am going to say that Hillary Clinton continues to bark up the wrong tree. And the reason is...

I've been trying to stay out of the so-called "horse race" aspect of the 2008 election, mostly because it smells like horse ass. But you have got to give someone their due when they go to work for you, and so far only Christopher Dodd has...

I have bad news for you. American currency is not what it used to be. And we are no longer a beacon of freedom to the oppressed of Earth, no matter what Bush and Cheney are selling. Disaster capitalism. Hostile takeovers. Terminology hiding the same authoritarian...