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Arts & Entertainment

Hall Pass

According to Naledge, Land of Make Believe has two sides to it. The first is an exploration of the illusions that come with the music industry; the second is celebration.

by ELENA GOORAY

All Grown Up

About 10 years ago, Michael Aguilar was a Penn student who managed to drive a rental car across Locust Walk.

by ELENA GOORAY

Lost at Sea

When the Gorillaz project came into existence, the purpose was clear: Blur’s Damon Albarn was not initiating a bland side project.

by DANIEL FELSENTHAL

This Week In... 03.18.19

MUSIC Tonight: Janelle Monae, Johnny Brenda’s, $12, 21+ A few awesome things about Janelle Monae: 1.

by 34TH STREET

Craft Like It's 1999

Most of us need some dedicated relaxation time ­— and sitting in front of Facebook doesn’t really count.

by 34TH STREET

Month In Music

March 2 Groove Armada, Black Light Jamie Foxx, Body Little Boots, Hands These New Puritans, Hidden Rogue Wave, Permalight March 9 Gorillaz, Plastic Beach Monica, Still Standing The Morning Benders, Big Echo New Young Pony Club, The Optimist Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Brutalist Bricks March 16 Ludacris, Battle of the Sexes Nas and Damien Marley, Distant Relatives The White Stripes, Under Great White Northern Lights March 23 Justin Bieber, My World Part 2 Cam’ron presents The U.N., Gunz n Butta Goldfrapp, Head First Redman, Reggie The Dillinger Escape Plan, Option Paralysis March 30 Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Part 2: Return of The Ankh Drake, Thank Me Later

by 34TH STREET

Ring A Ding Ding

Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.

by JOE PINSKER

Ring A Ding Ding

Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.

by JOE PINSKER

Work It

Not to sound like your mom or anything, but summer is fast approaching. And, if you’re anything like us, you’ve decided to forgo the OCR path in hopes of something better.

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Defibrillator: The Smashing Pumpkins, "Siamese Dream" (1993)

When I was in ninth grade, one of my friends told me that she heard Billy Corgan was an asshole. I responded angrily and cued up “Rocket” on my clunky iPod.

by DANIEL FELSENTHAL

A Paranormal Experience

It’s about time we all started believing in ghosts. In the posthumous release of Valleys of Neptune, the phantom of Jimi Hendrix has entered the airwaves to show that forty years on, he still deserves one of the highest thrones in the pantheon of rock deities.

by SEBASTIAN MODAK

Men Of The Future

We all know the drill — if you can’t make the monthly payments on your car, the bank takes your car back.

by HEIDI SCHERZ

Mother Dearest

In Bong Joon-ho’s satirical masterpiece The Host, a giant monster wrecks havoc on a Korean city.

by NICK STERGIOPOULOS

(Not) Best Foreign Film

Last year, many film lovers were outraged that the Swedish vampire masterpiece Let the Right One In didn’t score an Academy Award nomination for “Best Foreign Language Film.” However, Oscar voters were not to blame.

by NICK STERGIOPOULOS

Guilty Pleasure: The First Wives Club (1996)

Some people find it bizarre that a film following three middle-aged divorcees as they plot revenge on their ex-husbands ranks among my favorites.

by TUCKER JOHNS

The Wild Ones

For many, The Runaways will present itself as the perfect opportunity to ogle Dakota Fanning as the sexed-up version of her former child star self.

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This Week In...

MUSIC Tonight : Wild Beasts, Johnny Brenda’s, $10, 21+ Looking to get ahead of the curve on the next Pitchfork megastars?

by 34TH STREET

It's A Small World After All

It’s easy to forget that there is a whole musical world out there full of artists who are taking their own traditional styles and fashioning them into contemporary masterpieces that challenge our preconceptions of what music is, has been and will be.

by SEBASTIAN MODAK

Picasso And The Avant-Garde In Philadelphia

It is all too easy to buy into the one-dimensional cult of genius that surrounds the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and is propagated by art historians, intellectuals and sometimes, the artist himself.

by SAMANTHA BLOOM

It's Already Happening

Belgian indie rock vet Dieter Sermeus has seen it all, from the heyday of punk to the early 90s lo-fi haze.

by JOE PINSKER

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