In the perpetually bouncing, skating, blunt-smoking, laughing, crowd surfing, reverbed world of Best Coast and Wavves, over-thinkers, self-pitiers and gloomy types need not apply.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/23/11

Happy Monday! Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.

  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/22/10

Nathan Williams and his two new bandmates explain one very long year.

Despite 90-degree weather and gasp-inducing humidty, New York turned out for the Northside Festival.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/28/10

Fuzz makes a comeback.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/12/09

One of the perks of being a music writer is that you get sent tons and tons of free records. Those freebies quickly begin to feel a little bit like a curse.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/01/09

Wavves is the stage name for a young SoCal musician who escaped a life of zonked-out video-game boredom by writing songs about it. He now enjoys zonked-out video-game bliss.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/28/09

"I worked with Jack on an indie film I've been directing," says Al Pacino of 25-year-old actor Jack Huston, who stars in Salomaybe?, Pacino's unconventional adaptation of Oscar Wilde's notorious play Salome.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08