It’s as riveting as it is deeply weird. It borrows musically and thematically from just about everywhere–from cowboys to klezmer to 80s Peter Gabriel videos. It’s been viewed over 754,000 times since it debuted this past weekend. It’s been “favorited” by YouTube viewers over 4200 times. Ladies and Gentlemen, the work of a true original:…

Here at Burn or Burn, we’ve been careful not to encourage dishonesty: you’ll notice that when we advise you to digitally burn a record, it’s as an extra copy, say for your car. We’re good citizens, and it is still illegal to download copyrighted music without paying, as a jury in Minnesota reminded the world…

Meet Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling): an emotionally withdrawn, idiosyncratic, and socially awkward young man who lives in the garage owned by his older brother, Gus (Paul Schneider), and sister-in-law, Karin (Emily Mortimer). One day, a large wooden box is delivered and Lars introduces his girlfriend, Bianca, a shy, half-Brazilian/half-Danish, wheelchair-bound missionary. To Lars, Bianca is…

Children of the John Hughes generation know Mare Winningham as the earnest-faced innocent from St. Elmo’s Fire (cue David Foster’s evocative love theme); or as Meredith Grey’s doomed stepmother on Grey’s Anatomy. (Oops, I guess that was a spoiler. Sorry. My bad.) But there are three other things you need to know about Winningham these…

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