Fall Out Boy, 'Folie a Deux' (Island)
Pete & Pat Inc. launch shiny new product line.
By David Marchese 12.17.08 10:26 AM
Purists can stomp their Doc Martens all they want, but Fall Out Boy is the biggest punk-influenced act to emerge this decade. Not only do the Illinois quartet have platinum albums and hit singles, they've got reach.
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Scott Weiland, '"Happy" in Galoshes' (Softdrive/New West/Red/Sony)
Alt-rock misfit compensates for past atrocities -- sort of.
By William Goodman 12.07.08 6:21 PM
If 12 Bar Blues, the Stone Temple Pilots singer's 1998 solo debut, saw a junkie on the lam, "Happy" makes the fantastical argument that not only isn't Weiland a washout, he's a triumphant survivor.
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Common, 'Universal Mind Control' (G.O.O.D. Music/Geffen)
The electro bandwagon welcomes yet another passenger.
By Michael A. Gonzales 12.04.08 11:55 AM
On his eighth album, Common turns back the hip-hop clock to the days of electro, teaming up with Pharrell Williams, who comes off like a modern-day version of mid-'80s studio whizzes Mantronix. On the frantic, Roland 808–charged title track, the Windy City
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Termanology
Massachusetts rapper opts for the bus over a Benz.
By Seth Berkman 11.25.08 4:19 PM
Walk down Canal Street under the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge and you'll see people lining up for the Fung Wah bus. Originally a cheap way for Asian immigrants to commute between new York's and Boston's Chinatowns ($15 a ride), it's now often used by frugal locals, students, and in the case of 26-year-old Termanology, fledgling rappers juggling the demands of a career and family.
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Movie Review: Milk
Biopic about a gay icon plays things a little too straight.
By Troy Patterson 11.24.08 1:10 PM
Gus Van Sant's portrait of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk clunks along as the squarest movie he's ever made, a result of the director investing more emotion in the martyred idol than in the bleeding man.
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The Killers, 'Day and Age' (Island)
Brandon Flowers and Co. cruise the Vegas Strip once again.
By Stacey Anderson 11.24.08 10:22 AM
Hunter S. Thompson would not have liked this album. Which isn't saying much, considering he spent the majority of his time face-up spewing vitriolic rants about these shallow kids today and their endless entitlement. "A generation of dancers," he once seethed.
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