NEW YORKER: Still, on this question, pending some further (and very belated) revelations, I’m willing to swallow my skepticism and accept the official story: Oswald was the lone shooter. But why did he do it, and was he maybe put up to it? It is here that the Secretary of State departs from the Warren Commission’s version of events. In an interview with NBC’s Tom Brokaw, Kerry said, “To this day, I have serious doubts that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.” And, he went on, “I’m not sure if anybody else was involved—I don’t go down that road with […]

A little blast from our gloriously misspent youth we dug up in preparation for Mazzy Star’s sold out show at Union Transfer on Friday. The Rain Parade is Mazzy Star guitarist/songwriter Dave Roback’s first band, circa 1983. Pound for pound, better than any three Stone Roses’ songs combined.

  FRESH AIR Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps because they’re biracial, they’re perfectly comfortable satirizing white people and African-Americans — as well as everybody else. The New Yorker’s TV critic Emily Nussbaum as a “Golden Ticket to themes rarely explored on television.” Peele tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, “I think the reason both of us became actors is because we did a fair amount of code switching growing up, […]

“Cross My Heart,” the debut track from new ANTI- signing Son Little — the voice of RJD2‘s Icebird project, the voice of “Sleep” on The Roots‘ undun — is a box of bonbons filled with barbed wire. Over a deceptively slinky groove — shades of 70’s Marvin Gaye, Leon Ware — the singer croons, phrases emerging from the swelter, “sex and candy,” “gonna get me some:” a lover’s plea. But the angular blues guitar lick over the top of the track is clue to a deeper, older invocation, as Son Little’s lyrics bear witness to two departed friends, and, inspired […]

  FRESH AIR Anjelica Huston is best-known for her performances in Prizzi’s Honor, The Grifters, The Addams Family, The Royal Tenenbaums and the TV series Smash. But her new memoir about her early life, A Story Lately Told, ends just as her successful acting career begins. That part of her life will be in a second volume, now in the works. Huston is the daughter of John Huston, who directed nearly 50 films, including 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, 1948’s The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, 1951’s The African Queen and 1985’s Prizzi’s Honor, for which Anjelica won an Oscar. But […]

Live @ the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Sure as hell beats this.

  BY JONATHAN VALANIA It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time when Tiffany sold a lot of records. When New Coke vs Old Coke embodied the national debate on aesthetics. When Jim and Tammy Faye still had their biblical theme park and the prospect of catching Jimmy Swaggart with a hooker was about as likely as anyone uttering the words “President Mondale.” It was a time when the two-headed hydra of Reagan-Bush zombified a nation with fiscal sleight of hand and don’t-worry-be-happy hypnosis, all the while secretly feeding the voracious appetite of the military-industrial complex with tender […]