Liam Gallagher has started a new band with his former Oasis bandmates — minus his older brother Noel. Guitarist Gem Archer, bassist Andy Bell, and drummer Chris Sharrock are working with Gallagher on new material; Gallagher promised in an Italian radio interview that this version of the group...

Above: Folk musicians touring the European countryside by bicycle. Photograph Roger-Viollet /Rex Features The following was originally published in the LAWeekly on June 2, 2005… Man-Machines of Loving Grace by Jay Babcock I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where...

Above: Folk musicians touring the European countryside by bicycle. Photograph Roger-Viollet /Rex Features The following was originally published in the LAWeekly on June 2, 2005… Man-Machines of Loving Grace by Jay Babcock I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where...

Sure, it was only three years ago, but we are still crazy about 2006's debuts (Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Burial), breakouts (Amy Winehouse, Gnarls Barkley), bold makeovers (Christina Aguilera), and early farewells (J Dilla), not to mention the less eventful but nonetheless excellent releases from...

I had never met anyone in any political organization that I liked. “Eat with your hands like the African people,” that’s what this one girl I knew used to say. Someone told me she called a fork fascist. They were all like that—macrobiotic Belgian trust-fund junkies, park bench anarchists, mean...

I had never met anyone in any political organization that I liked. “Eat with your hands like the African people,” that’s what this one girl I knew used to say. Someone told me she called a fork fascist. They were all like that—macrobiotic Belgian trust-fund junkies, park bench anarchists, mean...

NOVEMBER 16 — MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Russian literary and cultural theorist, anti-Stalinist Marxist. NOVEMBER 16 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS… Côte d’Or: THREE DAY WINE FESTIVAL. RESIDENT ALIENS’ DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 16 IN HISTORY… 1747 — Knowles Riot in Boston; hundreds of sailors, laborers & free blacks...

NOVEMBER 16 — MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Russian literary and cultural theorist, anti-Stalinist Marxist. NOVEMBER 16 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS… Côte d’Or: THREE DAY WINE FESTIVAL. RESIDENT ALIENS’ DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 16 IN HISTORY… 1747 — Knowles Riot in Boston; hundreds of sailors, laborers & free blacks...