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.../time/images/covers/1101050912_160.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="209" border="0" In Time's September 12, 2005, issue, TIME published a 52-page special report on the Gulf Coast Disaster of 2005, including Amanda Ripley's report on what the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe said about America's rescue capabilities four years after 9/11...
...Confessor Brings the Flood Neko Case (Anti) Flame-haired alt-country chanteuse Neko Case is quite possibly the most versatile vocalist on the scene: she is an exhilarating power-pop balladeer, a smoldering lounge singer, a credible gospel soloist, and an expert interpreter of country-western standards. On her newly released album, “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood,” Case’s versatility is showcased over the course of twelve stellar tracks that run the gamut of musical genres. This diverse array of songs is unified by Case’s uncannily expressive vocals...
...comix. Both explore the nature of love, the intransigence of death, the possibility of time travel and a cosmos full of parallel lives. One has its origins in a failed Hollywood A-list movie; the other comes from the alt-auteur world of the small comix press. The first, The Fountain, written by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (?, Requiem for a Dream) and drawn by Kent Williams, arrived in late 2005 from Vertigo/DC in the form of a high-end, full color hardcover graphic novel (166 pages) with a price ($40) that reflects its luxurious production. The other book, Ganges...
...deceptively-named band is a power-pop supergroup from Canada. A.C. Newman of Zumpano, Dan Bejar of Destroyer, and alt-country siren Neko Case share bandleader duties, and a formidable roster of musicians from their respective array of side projects back them up, including director Blaine Thurier...
...breakup, and Lauryn Hill’s subsequent rise to solo success and quick fall from the spotlight, in tabloid-worthy detail. While the story is interesting enough, and the nostalgic beat is appropriately soulful, no one ever asked the emcee for “Behind the Music: Eccentric Alt-Rap Songwriter Edition.” We asked for hip-hop.He delivers on this tacit demand with such future classics as “Rock On.” “I show pain in the manner/of Coltrane’s ‘Alabama’/Make...