Movie star-handsome musician Diego Garcia first got noticed in the rock band Elefant, but these days it's his solo work that's garnering all the attention. Garcia’s sophomore album, Paradise, out October 8, makes it easy to see why: The tropical-tinged love songs are the sort to climb into ... More

Big Fish has already lived two lives: The first as the 1998 novel by David Wallace and the second as the Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated 2003 film directed by Tim Burton. Beginning October 6, the charming, over-the-top tale of Will Bloom and his quest to figure out his ... More

In director Stacie Passon's Concussion, a wearied, frustrated woman—Robin Weigert's Abby—finds excitement in escaping her suburban life for afternoons as a Manhattan call girl. Weigert herself, in her real life as an actress, acknowledges the pleasure of trying on different personas: "Most of us don't get to live ... More

The most unexpected Gloria Estefan fan isn't the millennial with "Conga" and "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" in her music library or even Deepak Chopra, who follows the Latin singer on Twitter. But it might be the 94-year-old man she met a few hours before we sat down ... More

When Au Revoir Simone released their fourth album, Move In Spectrums, the Brooklyn-based three-piece pop band—named for a Pee-Wee Herman catch phrase—re-emerged with a strong new sound, complete with all of the pop charm that’s made the band a hit with fans (and landed their songs ... More

It's lunch hour at a chic brasserie in Beverly Hills—the kind of place where Botoxed women in spandex share salads and businessmen hover over laptops and steak frites. Michael Sheen and I are discussing female orgasms and dildos. Of course, the topic might seem inappropriate under ordinary circumstances, but given ... More

Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd has been hard at work on his latest solo project, Sons of the Sea—a collaboration with famed producer Brendan O'Brien—and he has a rather poetic way of describing his songwriting inspiration for the record. "There arrives a moment when the front door swings open and ... More

David Sedaris has one of the most distinctive voices in literature, so when the time came to make a film based on his work, it was important to find the right actor for the part. Luckily, when director Kyle Alvarez set about making C.O.G.—his adaptation of a Sedaris ... More

We're used to tabloid headlines making their way onto TV but less frequently does Hollywood scandal enter the proscenium stage—especially in an opera. That's exactly what's happening when Anna Nicole, an operatic account of the life and times of model, actress and cautionary tale Anna Nicole Smith, has its More

From an obsessive mother in Mildred Pierce to a child's sexual ambiguity in Kathleen Winters' Annabel, the stories that influenced the songs on Tales of Us, the new album from beloved British electro-pop duo Goldfrapp, are anything but predictable—but anyone who's followed the music of Alison Goldfrapp and ... More