Nick Huinker

If you’re looking for any more evidence of how the Internet has altered the music business, consider this: Dracula Horse, arguably Knoxville’s most prominent record label, has spent the last two years giving its music away digitally in a pay-what-you-like ...

Are we ready yet to be grown up at the movies?

By early 2011 Fine Peduncle’s sound had solidified into a suggestive, hooky blend of hip-hop and left-field electronica, brought together by Cole Murphy’s Timberlake-on-bad-acid falsetto. What really brought the project to maturity, though, was the incorporation of his lifelong fascination ...

As fashionable as it’s become to plunder old genres for easy cheers, there’s no sign on Dead Town that Knoxville mod-rockers the Vaygues have anything less than complete, qualified commitment to the jangly guitar pop of yesteryear.

I have a soft spot for the sort of top-shelf kicks typified by Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, which will inevitably be known years from now, as you hunt it down on Netflix, as “the Dubai one.”

After more than 40 years at the forefront of American film, it had to happen sooner or later: Martin Scorsese has gone and given himself over to whimsy.

Capitol’s new restoration of Smile finally offers what rock geeks had only dared dream: a flatly definitive version of what should have ended up being the American Sgt. Pepper.

For a duo of French beatmakers trying by default to escape Daft Punk’s shadow, Justice spends much of its sophomore album following up on the promise of that group’s Alive 2007, which blurred forever the line between rave and live ...

It’s fair to describe Go to White Castle and Escape From Guantanamo Bay as minor even by stoner-movie standards, but they’re also as sweet-natured as anything else happening in film comedy. The same can be said for A Very Harold ...

The Rum Diary is hobbled by the idea that its bits and pieces should add up to a story rather than just a sunny, druggy travelogue of Thompson’s time living, writing, and drinking in San Juan, Puerto Rico.