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Jesse Malin takes a page out of Taylor Swift’s book and re-records his 2003 solo debut, The Fine Art of Self Destruction. Due Feb. 17 on the Mnrk Heavy label, the updated version of the LP features fresh versions of fan favorites like “Riding on the Subway,” “Downliner,” and “High Lonesome.” Some, like “Brooklyn,” have been retitled as well: Malin premieres a video for “Brooklyn (Walt Whitman in the Trash)” today.

Directed by Malin’s longtime bass player Cat Popper and photographer Vivian Wang, the video finds the Lower East Side...

Annually, millions of Korean young and old spend exorbitant amounts of money to “fix” something that for many does not need fixing, their Asian accent. Though nothing more than a vain attempt to look more sophisticated in the eyes of many a detractor, for many of them it is a matter of life and death for nothing but a perfect native pronunciation would make them be taken seriously in the prejudiced West. Such seems to be the case with the young actors in Kyung Son Kim’s short “Daytime Moon.”

“Daytime Moon” is screening at NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival

During an audition for a movie that casts Asian actors without an Asian accent, Dehyung (played by Yun Jeong), a Korean actor living in America, meets his ex-girlfriend Rebecca (played by Vivian Ahn) by chance. While rehearsing with one another, aspects of their shared past and views on being Asian...