Jay Ruttenberg is editor of the comedy magazine the Lowbrow Reader as well as the Lowbrow Reader Reader, a book anthology due next year from Drag City. He has written for the New York Times, SPIN, Vibe, Details and Time Out New York, where he worked for many years as a music critic.
If this album is not considered a camp classic, it damn well should be. R… more »
Dubbed "Ramblin'" by none other than Odetta's mother, who was app… more »
Todd Barry is a short, bald, grumpy Jew with a delivery so deadpan that, … more »
A cerebral comedian from New York City who has gained the cult status nor… more »
This former Saturday Night Live news anchor — famously canned by NB… more »
A cerebral comedian from New York City who has gained the cult status nor… more »
Before there were Gorillaz, there were the Archies. The band members were… more »
In recent years, Yo La Tengo has spent its eight nights of Hanukkah onsta… more »
A bizarrely overlooked singer-songwriter from New York, Hannah Marcus rec… more »
The Trachtenburg Family offers an unlikely collision of contemporary indi… more »
Al Franken is yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus turned best-selling… more »
Mitch Hedberg lived the life of a rock star-comic, and died like one, too… more »
"I'm the opposite of ethnic," Gaffigan announces at the top of his se… more »
Catch but a fleeting glimpse of Drug Rug and risk dismissing the band as … more »
When he was a kid, Eugene Mirman moved to the States from Russia. While t… more »
Pianist Irving Fields was born on the Lower East Side and became smitten … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
