Life On Mars: An Interview With Jan St. Werner

BY JORDAN MAINZER While the two French robots in Daft Punk are getting plenty of hype for their comeback album, an older Euro pair has quietly been making noise for the past twenty years. Although "German electronic duo Mouse On Mars" may sound like a premise for an SNL skit, Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma are into some serious shit. This isn't to say that St. [more]

A Fine Womance: A Review of Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha

BY JAMIE CARR While taking naps in my closest female friends’ beds, play-fighting with them in Manhattan’s parks, and romping together on subway platforms are as familiar to me as breathing, there was something both inspiring and frustrating about watching such scenes in Noah Baumbach’s latest film: Frances Ha. On one hand, Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, who [more]

Knock Knock. Who's There? Philip Glass and Friends @ MHOW

BY KEITH MEATTO   The legendary composer Philip Glass makes music that's so minimalist and repetitive that it has inspired a joke: Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Philip Glass. Knock [more]

Phreak Out: A Review of Phil Lapsley, Exploding the Phone

BY JOHN NICOSIA In Sidney Pollock’s 1975 political thriller, Three Days of the Condor, a former AT&T lineman (Robert Redford), breaks into a Bell System building in Manhattan and calls the CIA.  Just as the agency thinks it has traced the call, a new location pops up, then another, then another.  “He’s tying twenty phones together!”  The Condor has [more]