Made in Bloomington, Indiana, the web television series Midwest Underground combines music, art, and comedy, featuring various bands and artists from all over. Along with each episode’s featured musicians, you get to know the Midwest Underground characters’ quirks (did we mention the host is a Harvard-educated…

We always get a hoot out of watching Family Guy, and when we heard some of the comical minds behind the show were publishing their talents in print form, well, let’s just say we have Robots Feel Nothing When They Hold Hands on pre-order and can’t wait…

“The job. It holds you. It’s all around you; a constant, enclosing absorbing gel. And when you’re in the job, you look at life through that distorted lens. Sometimes, aye, you get your wee zones of relative freedom to retreat into, those light, delicate spaces…

“Life is one fool thing after another, where as love are two fool things after each other”           —Oscar Wilde THIS JUST IN: Love is dead. Or well, is dying—at least in America. And the inner streak of cynicism running through…

Not only will Dr. Dog be performing live on Conan next week, but on the Team Coco website you can get a full listen to the band’s latest album: Be the Void (which has been making our workday significantly better).Their tour kicked off in Columbus, Ohio at the Newport…

In light of the inevitable, irrecyclable mounds of waste that lie on and beneath our Earth’s surface, Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory scientists at Yale University, along with their biochemistry professor, have discovered a fungus in the Amazon Rainforest that’s diet consists of purely plastic, more specifically,…

“Shame is pride’s cloak” —William Blake The first ten or so minutes in Steve McQueen’s Shame give you a taste of Brandon Sullivan’s (Michael Fassbender) relentless bachelor lifestyle: the fancy high rise one bedroom apartment, his foolish charm; how by simply exchanging a glimpse with a…

Not that kind, but we hadn’t heard a good ‘new’ album in what seems like forever, then we heard Real Estate—the band. Their harmonic lyrics like, “all those wasted miles/ all those aimless drives/ our careless lifestyle/ it was not so unwise/ no,” threaded with the…

“Although the Universe seems to be much the same at each position in space, it is definitely changing in time”  —Stephen Hawking, Into the Universe  Researchers at the University of Arizona have initiated an “Event Horizon,” which invites scientists from all over the world to…