Jordan Langer

It might seem a little late to talk about the Great War, especially among Americans (our WWI was scant when compared to…

In the lead-up to their recording sessions for “Helplessness Blues,” Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold suggested that the band would try to “distance”…

“Is he kind of out of it?” she asked me. And I have to admit that he did look a little lost…

With music, I’ve got an upsetting, near-servile craze for new music—a blog-like up-to-the-minute twitch. But I’ll admit it: sometimes “this year’s model”…

I guess at some point in our lives it just becomes impractical, even hopeless, to keep trying to have clout, to be…

I’d heard that I’d need some familiarity with Westerns to really get “Rango,” a bizarre, blithe retake of a genre where they…

Of all we know about Hitler, there is one initial reel of data, one profile picture in our minds when we think…

Sam Beam’s now decade-old, home-recorded “The Creek That Drank the Cradle” nestled a stripped- down sound of Americana with his beardy, bookish…

Hot off of recent news that the Beacon will be discontinued, SAG has decided to use the publication’s old issues in place…

Do you remember when Kanye told us that “Jesus Walks” with “the hustlers, murderers, drug dealers, even the strippers?” He isn’t St.…