On Friday, comedy fans packed the room at the Bell House in Brooklyn for Tom Scharpling and Ted Leo's "Very Special Hurricane Benefit Show". The line...
The director of some of your favorite, funny music videos is coming together with one of the coolest indie rockers, for a night of comedy and do-goodi...
Julie Klausner's weekly comedy podcast "How Was Your Week" had its second live recording last Thursday, once more showing how an audio-only show can b...
First there was The Areas of My Expertise. Then came More Information Than You Require. And now there is That Is All, the final book in John Hodgman's...
We realized we're always telling you which comedians to follow on Twitter, but we never give any love to the non-professional funny people who have tr...
These days movie trailers can be little more than turgid, stale recaps of the feature film itself; full on giveaways. The New Pornographers' latest mu...
When the indie rock world and the comedy world cross paths, beautiful things often happen.
Such is the case with The New Pornographers latest video f...
The WFMU record festival is an annual three-day hajj for the music obsessed, hosted by the popular independent New Jersey radio station of the same name.
Every summer during the last decade, the masses have trekked out to Coney Island for Siren Festival, battling the heat and crowds for a searing day of live music.
When word of the RNC violence and arrests traveled east, Leo and the band decided to record two new songs. I chatted with him about life as a political songwriter, and of course, pigs in lipstick.
The apogee of protest rock might well have come on May 15, 1970. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young recorded "Ohio" in a Los Angeles record studio--a son...