These four guys sound more like a '60s British rock band than a current group from Chicago.

Slug brings his best, even if it is for only half an album.

The fun in this film is watching Hancock be his own worst enemy and then trying to become better at the whole superhero thing.

Wanted is ridiculous, over the top and one of the best times I've had at the movies in a long time.

"In the Rushes" has a fun time messing with The Who's "A Quick One While He's Away," which is appreciated, though not altogether necessary.

I actually felt as if I had been zapped a lá Jeff Bridges in Tron, into a computer kickin' it with an end-of-the-world dance party program.

The size of the crowd made the show more intimate, almost as if Ryan was playing in someone's living room to appreciative and enraptured fans .

Their performance surpassed even my expectations, like a fantasy that comes true and is even better than you had imagined.

Ross Campbell aims for the Suicide Girls demographic with this tale of a hot, bald, tattooed, punker bisexual amputee whose biggest problem isn't her missing leg, it's her deadbeat ex-boyfriend.

Before Metropolis, Smallville, and Krypton, Superman came from Cleveland.

As high, pure and sustained as that note is, the screams at the climax of "Live Again" seemed to force the air from the room and fill it with the reservoir in his lungs.

"It was a post-industrial time and there were a lot of amazing bands. The idea was that the bar had to be set really high...you had to do something really special if you were in a band."

Plain and simple, this is a great album that any music lover should be proud to own.

The sound tends toward dissonant, distorted guitar overlaid with eerily consonant vocal harmonies.

Now that tickets for the upcoming concert tour are selling like hotcakes in just about every major city in the U.S. and Canada, no one will be able to deny the impact the Kids had and continue to have on their true fans.

One of the possible dads, Harry Bright, is played in this tour production by native St. Louisan Michael Aaron Linder. I caught up with Linder, a new father, to chat about his homecoming and first national Broadway tour.

Brain Thrust Mastery offers a bit of everything: clever writing, memorable hooks and tight harmonies.

The album's most accessible song, "More Than Alive" left me speechless, which is ironic because there can't be enough said about this strangely epic tune.

The 1990s saw female singer/songwriters enjoy some resurgence in popularity with the emergence of artists such as Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, and Jewel, as well as the success of the Lilith Fair concert tours.

You pretty much know what you're in for after the astoundingly good first track, "Lost Verses," which is eight or so minutes long but is elegant in a way that is hard to describe.

When Norah Jones was cast as the lead in My Blueberry Nights, the English language debut of maybe my favorite living director, Wong Kar-wai, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.

In the album opener, Gautreau's voice sounds like a downtrodden Morrissey on a lazy day off, timidly bellowing personal thoughts through a tunnel of reverb.

We love to play. We love to write. We love to hang out with each other.