Cosmic American Blog

The best use of bongos in a pop song since The Beatles' "You're Going To Lose That Girl" ? Joe Cocker's "Feelin...

"Playgirl" seems to be one of those songs that everybody knows about, and yet, as far as I can tell, was never actually a hit any...

Now here is a perfect example of a band not trying very hard to make music of any particular significance and yet creating something I qui...

A couple of months back I was thinking of compiling a "Ten Best Albums of the '00s" list, but I couldn't actually name te...

Mr. McKay, the man behind the goofball absurdism of “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” said that Mr. Wahlberg’...

I think An Education suffers from Good Will Hunting Syndrome, i.e. I'm supposed to sympathize with a main character whose problems I w...

Well folks, just over a week ago me and my girlfriend decided to drive up to San Francisco and get ourselves some tattoos. For me, it's...

Time for an old-fashioned Slate article round-up: Do You Believe In Miracles? - The wild, weird world of Insane Clown Posse - Jonah Weiner ...

You know, and I was just about to hang out with some aliens. But after reading this article , I'm starting to have second thoughts: Brit...

The Wolf at Our Heals: The centuries-old struggle to stay in tune. The article is an interesting explanation of an arcane subject understand...