EX MODELS Tue, 9/15/2009 - Music Back when they were still the New Waviest band in New Jersey, the Ex Models aped the mechanical stage moves of Devo and recreated Wire’s staccato bursts of math-rock punk/jazz fusion with an almost psychotic propensity for speed and brevity

MIRACLE OF 86 ’’EVERY FAMOUS LAST WORD’’ Tue, 9/15/2009 - Music From the shadow of New York’s post-Strokes underground, a DIY contender arises.....

SINGAPORE SLINGIN’ IT Tue, 9/15/2009 - Music Erik The Red became the most famous Icelander in history by getting the hell out of there and discovering Greenland.

SMARTY PANTS Tue, 9/15/2009 - Music Ever wonder what they do for fun in Edmond, Oklahoma? My guess is they go out on Saturday night and catch a Smarty Pants gig.

THE VILLAS Tue, 9/15/2009 - Music Power pop's history as a genre that mostly exists under the radar goes hand in hand with the way its artists often emerge from secondary markets or out-of-the-way places.

MANIC HISPANIC GOES TO COLLEGE Mon, 9/14/2009 - Music Imagine seven of the scariest vatos ever to graduate from an L.A. street gang, armed with guitars and drums and shamelessly song-jacking their favorite punk rock tunes with own wack Latino lyrics.....

"USHER" WON’T TAKE YOUR TICKET Sat, 9/12/2009 - Film A hit man turned ticket-taker tears up the big screen in this director’s feature debut at the DIY Film Festival.....

BEN WOLFINSOHN Sat, 9/12/2009 - Film Two men, one van, an endless string of parking lot performances....it’s a metaphor for the DIY experience itself......

THE BLAKES Sat, 9/12/2009 - Music Edgy, gloomy, downbeat -- is this the new face of pop music?

THE PARKINSONS ’’A LONG WAY TO NOWHERE’’ Sat, 9/12/2009 - Music Portugal’s contribution to the garage rock revival offers stripped down rock ’n roll...in more ways than music......