Andy Crump

Picturing Tim Heidecker as a sentimental man is considerably harder than picturing the screen persona he’s cultivated over years as an actor and comedian: Egotistical, boorish, caustic, prickly, a bit of a blowhard and a fundamental jerk. In movies like The Comedy, Mister America, Us, and the upcoming Spin

Paying proper tribute to a musician like Neal Casal, whose career spanned nearly 30 years and saw him work with everyone from The Cardinals to Hard Working Americans to The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, takes chutzpah and careful planning. Casal took his own life two years ago and left a heartbroken

If you’re a musician living through a pandemic, you make a quarantine album. It’s what you do. Daniel and Lauren Goans, the married duo known musically as Lowland Hum, are no exception. Though given their 2010s output — five self-produced LPs and four Eps, plus their “immersive listening experience,

Now’s as good a time as any to ask the question “what do you need a song for?”: After a good 10 days or so this June, when American life looked like it might go back to normal, the country reverted to what’s become familiar over the last

“In 1947,” writes Michael Chabon in his 2016 family memoir Moonglow, “there was, to my grandfather, one reason to call oneself a Jew, to go on being Jewish before the world: as a way of telling Hitler, ‘F**k you.’” Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg, husband and wife and principal