photos by Diana Wong I love you but I've chosen Moog "he Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems. Company founder Dr. Robert Arthur Moog had begun manufacturing and selling vacuum-tube theremins in kit form...

Since her breakout role in 2005’s “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Michelle Monaghan has been steadily turning in solid supporting performances in everything from big-budget thrillers (“Mission Impossible III”) to more character-based dramas (“North Country”), but Hollywood still hasn’t seen her as a leading lady. That’s all set to change though, as Monaghan has signed on to appear in her biggest role yet alongside Susan Sarandon. Jonathan Mostow (“Terminator 3,” “U-571”) will direct Monaghan and Sarandon in the thriller “Still of Night,” from a script which he also penned. The film follows Monaghan as a...

*Good Charlotte* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/goodcharlotte) bassist Paul Thomas and his wife Diana are expecting (https://twitter.com/#%21/PTGC/status/203494863566680064) a baby boy. Congratulations to the family! Submitted by WhoSaidThat?

Tags: Kate Middleton People magazine Featured on the front cover of the latest issue of “People” magazine is Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton and her sexy new look. Has she had an ultra glam sexy new Princess makeover? The magazine goes inside Kate’s transformation into the most glamorous royal since Princess Diana. Kate’s stylist friend Nikki Pennie said, “High-level glamour [...] ( Read more... )

The reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker shows musicians with the nerve to really stretch a song and take listeners on a journey The three-minute pop song is an undeniable design classic: short enough to fit on one side of a 7in, long enough to turn a repeated chorus, melody or hook into an insanely addictive earworm. But greatness can also occur when an artist changes their game up from sprint to marathon, breaking past the 180-second barrier as far as their creativity will take them. I'm talking specifically about tunes that rely on their uncommon length for their effect ...

Diana Brancoveanu of Steel And Fire recently conducted an interview with guitarist Wolf Hoffmann of reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT.

In 1958, the American idea of the teenager hit Britain. Pathé News caught early examples of this strange new breed at large in London's Soho This may seem very familiar. That's because it's been chopped and edited into dozens of historical documentaries, as a seminal piece of documentary footage. And rightly so: although burdened with the customary, clunky voiceover that Pathé reserved for youth in this period – all that tired "hepcat" jabber – it gives a clear overview, and some fabulous shots, from the dawn of British pop culture. Journalistically, Pathé was right on time: 1958 was the ...

Headhunters Dir. Morten Tyldum [Magnolia Pictures; 2012] by Alex Peterson Rating: The world has been led down some bad roads by powerful men with inadequacy issues. However vaguely he conceptualizes them, Norwegian director Morten Tyldum aims to put a roadblock in front of as many as possible with Headhunters , a bizarrely comic, occasionally torture-porn-y morality play that zealously punishes one man just for having an inferiority complex. The man in question — professional corporate headhunter Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) — remedies his complex a bit more elaborately than most. Roger is much shorter than he’d like to be, but he does ...

Looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays. Time to dig into some new music, then! There’s a fine list of just-released stuff from the likes of Tenacious D, Ryan Shaw, Godsmack, Meiko, Santana and Willie Nelson. Some of our favorite reissues and live dates for the week come from the Bill Evans Trio, Diana Ross, Pantera and The [...]

Hoodie Allen, Shelton Harris @ The Crocodile | 5/13 | Doors 8pm | $14 | All Ages Photo credit: Diana Levine Drop some beats and shake your tail-feathers with [...]

This runs live and in color, with amazing photographs by Diana Wong on Bowery's House List blog . To some, M83 has always had an uncanny resemblance to the John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club . This has nothing to do with the aesthetic reality that the band plays music with influences from the enormous synthesizers that so dominated mid-1980s pop music. Frontman Anthony Gonzalez possesses a knack for distilling human experience down to one frozen moment: a fist raised against a cloudy sky, a human story of difference and commonality, to say everything all at once, a frozen slice of ...

Want to bid on some cool, previously owned vinyl? With the highest of profiled owners? Well, a collection of 19 vinyl records belonging to the late Diana, Princess of Wales is going on the block. From now through May 24, bidders can vye for the records, most of which are signed by Diana herself,

Matthew Dear at Moogfest 2011 (more by Diana Wong) Matthew Dear has a few shows scheduled this summer including a DJ set at the Wavefront Festival in Chicago and possibly a DJ set at Loreley Brooklyn on 5.27 (limited details...

Filed under: News Gino DePinto, AOL | Diana Levine While perhaps the common reaction was surprise at the news last night that Against Me !'s lead singer Tom Gabel was transitioning to become a woman , bands quickly showed support for the musician while chastising those who voiced opposition. "So incredibly brave," Tegan and Sara tweeted with a link to the Rolling Stone article . The gay twins weren't the only ones standing up for Gabel, though. GLAAD , the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said " Tom's decision to live life authentically is a not only a personal step forward, but one ...

Attention Alice Smith fans: she has new music coming soon! This is not a threat, but a promise from Alice herself, who I recently saw in concert at the Howard Theatre in Washington, DC. Making good on her promise, she...