Douglas Wolk

Kanye West shows are where audiences get to watch a great artist in his element and enable a great artist's cranky delusions. On Saturday night,…

The received wisdom is that popular music is the province of short attention spans, which are only getting shorter: Listeners only care about callout hooks;…

OH MAN. THE PAST FEW DAYS OF THIS YEAR'S COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL HAVE BEEN HUGE AND EXHAUSTING. DID ANYTHING EQUALLY STUPENDOUS HAPPEN TODAY? Not so much.

SO, WHILE THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A VERY BIG MOVIE ELEMENT TO COMIC-CON, THERE'S A LOT OF STRAIGHT-UP COMIC BOOK STUFF TOO. DO THOSE TWO CULTURES COME…

AS WE ALL KNOW, POPULAR CULTURE ROTATES THROUGH EPOCHS BELONGING TO ROBOTS, PIRATES AND ZOMBIES. ACCORDING TO THE PREVAILING VIBE OF THIS YEAR'S COMIC-CON, WHICH…

COMIC-CON 2012 IS OFFICIALLY GOING ON NOW. WHAT WAS THE VIBE TODAY ALL ABOUT? Thursday at Comic-Con has become Party Day. There are parties going…

SO WHAT IS COMIC-CON EXACTLY, AND DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO WEAR A COSTUME? Comic-Con International is the biggest pop culture convention in America. It started…

The career of the 20th century's greatest American musician has been eclipsed by the wretched image of the final years of his life: an incoherent,…

Robin Gibb, who died after a lengthy fight with cancer on May 20, spent most of his career as the member of the Bee Gees…

Donna Summer, who passed away today after a lengthy battle with cancer, was best known as a disco singer, of course, but she had a…

When Whitney Houston died prematurely over the weekend in a Los Angeles hotel, we didn't just lose a pop singer — we lost a true…

Over the course of two decades, Stephen Malkmus has traded Pavement's inscrutable, self-reflexive wordplay for marathon prog-guitar solos. "I'm just not that much into words…

If you've read enough comic books, the opening scene from The Umbrella Academy's first issue doesn't seem all that unusual: A tank-size pro wrestler wallops…

On the afternoon of May 30, Jack White called Chicago radio station Q101 in a very bad mood. The White Stripes' frontman was in Spain…

Love Is All singer Josephine Olausson wants to get your attention, even if that means getting in your face. On the Swedish quintet's debut album,…