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You know this sadly familiar scenario: Band with three distinctive singers and writers — and a steady, dependable drummer who seems to get along with them all — collapses, and what follows are individual projects with plenty of sterling moments instead of a group record that will never be. The Beatles? Sure, but the same now goes for Sonic Youth. In the aftermath of the group’s collapse following Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s startling breakup, we’ve had to make do with solo albums that, at least, played up their individual strengths.

As Kim Gordon explains in the new “video” for her song “Air BnB,” the video was supposed to be shot in an actual Air BnB. “Think faux mid-century modern on top of the Hollywood Hills with a great view of the city and lots of grass,” she explains via title card, with the song playing over it.

But Gordon didn’t have the budget, so through title cards, she lays out the whole video treatment and lets the viewer imagine what the clip could’ve been like. (Think Young Thug’s Diy “Wyclef Jean” video,...

Kim Gordon unveiled the bruising new single, “Sketch Artist,” from her debut solo album No Home Record, set to arrive October 11th via Matador.

The former Sonic Youth member also sahred a video for “Sketch Artist,” directed by the Berlin-based experimental filmmaker Loretta Fahrenholz. In the clip, Gordon plays a driver for a ride share app called “Unter,” and as she drives passengers — including Broad City star Abbi Jacobson — around nighttime Los Angeles, her cold stare shocks pedestrians on the street into dancing fits.

No Home Record — whose title alludes...

If you were disappointed by the courtroom sketches of Taylor Swift that emerged from her butt-groping trial last week, you weren’t alone. But listen, the guy who drew them has an explanation for all the haters. Sketch artist Jeff Kandyba spoke to Denver station Kdvr on Monday and offered an explanation that seemed tailor-made to appease angry Swifties — the “Shake it Off” singer is so attractive that she’s more difficult to sketch than the average person. Also Read: Taylor Swift Prevails in Butt-Groping Case as Judge Tosses DJ's Claims Against Her “A person like Taylor Swift, who is very pretty — has.

Look, this brouhaha over that stupid dress will be a fecal smear on our civilization's history. We should all just accept that. The Internet lost its damn mind and for one day there was literally nothing more important than eyeballs and brains trying to decide if the dress was blue and black or white and gold. The dress is…a representation of everything we love and loathe about the Internet. But if you want to forget about the fever dream that was the big dress debate of 2015, just check out these Amazon reviews for the dress and laugh yourself unconscious. Only then will you find peace: "Robbed a bank in this dress. Nobody could agree on a proper description of me. Sketch artist's head...

DC Comics - Harley Quinn Cosplayer: Lady Jaded * Photographer: Gary Parris Photographer: Shadow-World Photography ........................................................................ Mortal Kombat - Mileena Cosplayer: Lady Jaded ........................................................................ Marvel - Black Suit Spider-Man Cosplayer: Lady Jaded * Photographer: The first appearance of the black costume from Asm #252 illustrated by Ron Frenz and Brett Breeding. Also includes the brief origin from Secret Wars #8 that came seven months after the initial appearance in Asm #252. Art from Secret Wars is by Mike Zeck and John Beatty. Music is mostly from the score to Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez with one track from the score to Sketch Artist by Mark Isham. - thugie1...

"Evidence is not truth. It is only evident."

—Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods

Inspector Morosini: This is an outline of the man we are after, reconstructed with an accuracy of plus or minus 10 percent. In a moment will follow the first personal data. Statistically speaking, the description could fit approximately 150,000 inhabitants of this city.

—Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

Police Sketch Artist: You're sure this is him?

Detective Mills: Yup, good good, yup, yeah yeah yeah yeah, good, yeah yeah yeah.

—David Fincher's Se7en (1995)

Dario Argento's Deep Red can be seen tonight in the Giallo Fever! program at Anthology Film Archives.

Part of our on-going series, Echoes....

“From Within” is the first film from Phedon Papamichael as a director for nearly 15 years, following his forgettable early 1990s thrillers “Dark Side of Genius” and “Sketch Artist”. The time since has certainly been well spent, with Papamichael honing his craft as one of the top cinematographers in the business, having worked on the likes of “Sideways”, “Walk the Line”, “W” and “3:10 to Yuma” as director of photography. Perhaps having learned his lessons, he has here returned behind the camera in a different way with a slice of Bible belt horror as suicides and ghostly visions torment a small Christian community in the American south. Interestingly enough, despite the setting, the film draws its influences quite obviously from the recent wave of modern Asian ghost chillers, perhaps unsurprisingly given that writer Brad Keene was also recently responsible for remake non-sequel “The Grudge 3”. The film begins with a young goth teen eating his gun,...