Sufjan Stevens writes on Cryptacize's mission for self-knowledge.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

AK's Fashionista breaks open the myth of Fashion-80s.
Posted by DC Goodwill Fashionista

Johnny Bob with a timely question.
Posted by Johnny Bob

Art writer Gala Bent finds the found art of Lynn Aldrich.
Posted by Gala Bent

AudioSurf knows Nathan Smart's soul.
Posted by Nathan Smart

Adam Gnade finds healing vibes in pomegranate tea.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Talking Portland, Etsy, and all-things-print with Yvonne and Jeremy from micro-publisher Little Otsu
Posted by Sara Billups

Kaufmann investigates Stuart Snoddy's two-dimensional work.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

Four reasons why spring needs to come NOW.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Human-robot relationships evolve very slowly.
Posted by Tom Eaton

Adam Gnade on choosing records to write to.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Nedelle of Cryptacize survives an Altman and lives to tell about it.
Posted by Cryptacize

A light breakthru!
Posted by David Sankey

Camels!
Posted by David Sankey

Gala Bent looks at the ways Robert Hardgraves health and illness spill into his art.
Posted by Gala Bent

Our resident video game reviewer finds hope....in a unicorn.
Posted by Nathan Smart

Outdone.
Posted by David Sankey

Adam Gnade gets hypnotized in Brighton, England.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Chris Schlarb digs up some pages from the "script" for the compositional Twilight & Ghost Stories.
Posted by Chris Schlarb

Michael Kaufmann has been saving these for a long time.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

When not listening to Mariah Carey's Christmas record, Adam Gnade listens to his own Christmas mixtape.
Posted by Adam Gnade

We present the category winners of the Great Sufjan Song Xmas Xchange!
Posted by Asthmatic Kitty

Before John gets to the good stuff (an interview with Christopher, owner of Goose the Market), he has to delve into some urban planning schmuck. 
Posted by John Beeler

Sara Billups offers some quick tips on picking vintage diamonds in the rough.
Posted by Sara Billups

Pollution does not affect this trout!
Posted by David Sankey

Adam Gnade is making a cookbook. Don’t tell his friends.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Propelled!
Posted by David Sankey

The DC Goodwill Fashionsta takes us inside the dangerous world of Christmas fashion.
Posted by The DC Goodwill Fashionsta

Indie-lebrity Nathan Smart doublejumps into the universe that is Super Mario Galaxy and enjoys its eject features.
Posted by Nathan Smart

Stability, rotation.
Posted by David Sankey

A sword and a fish.
Posted by John Hendrix

Artist and designer David Sankey debuts the first of a multi-part series.
Posted by David Sankey

Caveman!
Posted by Johnny Bob

Adam Gnade avoids the giant Am-Mex food industry somehow and finds a nice niche.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Nathan Smart plays Guitar Hero III so you don't (or do?) have to.
Posted by Nathan Smart

Cavemen.  Cavemen?
Posted by Johnny Bob

ASCII arti!
Posted by Johnny Bob

Sufjan comes across a list of debris, and shares instead of discarding it.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

Elizabeth Meister on the official bird of the BQE.
Posted by Elizabeth Meister

Sufjan dissects the hoop and the BQE and finds something surprising.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan lists and thanks collaborators on The BQE.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

David Michael Stith fights...biblically.
Posted by David Stith

Shara Worden writes about angels, ghosts, rabbits, and Timothy Gologly.
Posted by My Brightest Diamond

Gala Bent tries something beautiful.
Posted by Gala Bent

Official Asthmatic Kitty Records Sports Correspondent Johnny Bob takes cavemen.
Posted by Johnny Bob

Houstonian Moth Fight excavates news from the archives.
Posted by Moth Fight

Houston is not hot...it's delicious!
Posted by Sara Strohmeyer

Ten reasons why Houston is great.
Posted by Philip Beck

Puppetry in Portland.
Posted by Meow Meow Presents

Former Houstonian Craig McCormick extols the virtue of the city's art.
Posted by Craig McCormick

Asthmatic Kitty Sports Correspondent Johnny Bob reports on the CeeBee game.
Posted by Johnny Bob

Autumn is here, and the DC Goodwill Fashionista is eschewing the shootie.
Posted by DC Goodwill Fashionista

Sara Billups chats with Pete Jordan about vagabonding, appearing on Letterman, and navigating the back roads that led to his new book, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All 50 States.
Posted by Sara Billups

The ball is ramping up, and Johnny Bob is there to cover it.  EVERY TIME.
Posted by Johnny Bob

The official Asthmatic Kitty Sports Correspondent returns triumphant.
Posted by Johnny Bob

They got it in blood.
Posted by Matthew Miles

Nathan Smart needs more than a video game guitar to get his groove on.
Posted by Nathan Smart

Writer Bart Schaneman sees the sprawl of Seoul.
Posted by Bart Schaneman

Chris Overpeck goes bowling with Kimya Dawson and learns an important lesson about life.
Posted by Chris Overpeck

LA Weekly writer and Brassland label founder Alec Hanley Bemis finds his Calvin.
Posted by Alec Hanley Bemis

Our resident comic book commentator reads Daredevil #100 and lives to tell about it.
Posted by Matthew Miles

Marina Pierri travels to Olympia so you don't have to.
Posted by Marina Pierri

Haiku reveals broken bones and walking out.
Posted by Jeff Stern

Dylan Metrano of Tigersaw remembers "Indian Summer."
Posted by Dylan Metrano (Tigersaw)

Oliver Knutton gets confused by "Throw Gold," infatuated with punk, then smashed by Dovetail.
Posted by Oliver Knutton

In his inaugural sidebar entry, Eric Doise reviews the increasingly popular "Theory Trading Cards."
Posted by Eric Doise

Adam Gnade attempts the impossible?
Posted by Adam Gnade

Introducing the DC Goodwill Fashionista.
Posted by DC Goodwill Fashionista

Sara Billups digs up some coffee gems in the dirt of Seattle.
Posted by Sara Billups

Michael Kaufmann avoids psychoanalyzing the Marsh-Mellow Man while talking to artist Greg Ajamie.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

Have you ever wanted to make fried chicken?  Nathan Smart shows you how to make it virtually...on the Nintendo DS!
Posted by Nathan Smart

Kid Twist pens a letter from Chengdu, China.
Posted by Kid Twist

David find a strange connection between You Can't Take It With You and Wes Anderson. Weird.
Posted by David Thaggard

David Thaggard reviews the recent Criterion release of Orson Welles'  last film.
Posted by David Thaggard

Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond tells what she knows about Future Rapper.
Posted by Land of a Thousand Rappers

Chris Overpeck hails the quintessential trifecta of South Broad Ripple, Indianapolis.
Posted by Chris Overpeck

Zack Bent reminisces about the Harrison Center in Indianapolis.
Posted by Zack Bent

Geography and narrative in the art of Kyle Ragsdale.
Posted by John Beeler

Gala Bent on Cindy Hinant's luridly colorful collections.
Posted by Gala Bent

Gala Bent discusses the "graceful clumsiness" of artist Casey Roberts.
Posted by Gala Bent

Tonya gets violent about her city.
Posted by Tonya Beeler

Sara Billups finds the best sleeping pill ever made inside Slept in Beds
Posted by Sara Billups

It all comes together!
Posted by Tom Eaton and Laura Park

"Hello!"
"Hi"
Posted by Tom Eaton and Laura Park

A bird, and some wheelin'.
Posted by Tom Eaton and Laura Park

People browse, talk on cellphones, chit-chat.
Posted by Tom Eaton and Laura Park

Tonya Beeler finishes Horns and Wrinkles and wonders about the mysticism of cousins.
Posted by Tonya Beeler

Storyteller Adam Gnade talks about the Virginian patch of green called Norfolk.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Gala Bent talks with artist Mary Temple about discipline, play, and invasion.
Posted by Gala Bent

Artist and student of art history Josh Rios interviews artist, musician, and gallery owner Paul Slocum.
Posted by Josh Rios

Matthew Miles wraps up a three-parter on the death of Captain America with thoughts on secret identities and fact checking.
Posted by Mathew Miles

John Beeler drills deeper into the psyche of Matthew Miles, and its reception of the death of Captain America.
Posted by Matthew Miles and John Beeler

a Parade impresses Shapes and Sizes in Nashville.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Jai finds himself part of a cultural television experience thanks to The Office.
Posted by Jai Agnish

It's Friday, and that means Jeff Stern is here to guide you through the popcorn season with deft and subtle haiku - this time on the trilogilistic <i>Ocean's 13</i>.
Posted by Jeff Stern

Adam Gnade takes on the Hot and Sour Soup of Bayleaf Vegetarian Restaurant.
Posted by Adam Gnade

"I often draw during church and this is part of an ongoing sketchbook series. Some other examples are up on my site/blog, johnhendrix.com. Pentecost is loaded with such great imagery, it would have been hard to go wrong."
Posted by John Hendrix

Shocked by brooze and bureaucracy, Shapes and Sizes travel from Toronto to Chicago.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Sufjan constructs a musical fantasy weekend for David Geffen.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

What's Caila of Shapes and Sizes been listening to?  She'll tell you.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

The cover artist of Shapes and Sizes' Split Lips discovers its nuances on multiple road (and ferry) trips.
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

A&R man provokes Shapes and Sizes.  Again. (See Part I here)
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Sufjan Stevens reviews Shapes & Sizes performance at the Unusual Animals show in Union Hall, located in Brooklyn, alongside Flying, Stars Like Fleas, and Osso on Sunday, May 13, 2007.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

A&R man provokes Shapes and Sizes as they interview themselves. Part 1 of 2.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Jared Cheek finds that Everything, Now's new album is a bowl of chili that brings the world together as one like only the Lochness Monster can.
Posted by Jared Cheek

Our in-house haiku-er also happens to be a popcorn fan.
Posted by Jeff Stern

top with a cherry
Posted by Laura Park

The Deermilk Collective uses innocence to provoke reflection on our culture’s obsession with childhood.
Posted by Allison Davis

Farmer Craig has downsized, and that means extra gardening knowledge for the rest of us - and a delicious salad dressing recipe!
Posted by Craig Brown

The BBC tells us the story of Iraq, four years too late.
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

Adam Gnade says “I love you so much” to his favorite Midwestern town.
Posted by Adam Gnade

handmade danger for friends and strangers
Posted by Laura Park

Find out what happened to Sarah Silverman.  Downloadable bracket!
Posted by Johnny Bob

Life goes on and quickly in the time lapsed Up Series.
Posted by Zack Bent

Baltimore wins post-Austin.
Posted by Castanets

A maelstrom in Austin.
Posted by Castanets

Gifts and problems.
Posted by Half-handed Cloud

A review of one of the greatest theme songs of television time.
Posted by Jared Cheek

Polyphonic Spree guitarist and Sufjan touring member Annie Clark debuts as St. Vincent.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Modelos inspires brilliance, and the backyards of Austin.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Kurzweil is defeated, and not by machines.
Posted by Johnny Bob

Dark crystals and mood killers in Houston.
Posted by Castanets

So much crawfish.
Posted by Castanets

Sufjan Stevens charts out the boundaries of a new genre of rock.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

fried okra and poison bone sandwiches
Posted by Castanets

There is a downloadable bracket available in this sidebar, courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty Records Sports Correspondent Johnny Bob.
Posted by Johnny Bob

Advice in our nation's capital.
Posted by Castanets

Acronyms and old VCRs in the city of The Wire.
Posted by Castanets

Castanets wind through Philly and semanticize "the cold."
Posted by Castanets

Sufjan Stevens solicits a “Philosophical Discussion of the Remix” from Diamond Girl Shara Worden in light of the release of her gorgeous new remix album Tear It Down.
Posted by My Brightest Diamond

Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond coins a new genre: Electronicish!
Posted by My Brightest Diamond

Gala Bent on the self-studied sculpturing of Justin Novak.
Posted by Gala Bent

Rafter loves dancing, almost as much as he loves you!
Posted by Rafter

Forget patches. The Field Guides sift through Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and others to help you snub that smoking habit in the ashtray of rock music (and just in time for Lent!).
Posted by The Field Guides

Beware subway genies and their faustian bargains.
Posted by Tom Eaton

A guide for newcomers to Portland!
Posted by Adam Gnade

Every Dog Has Their Day on Damen.
Posted by Laura Park

Thanks to the Norwegian government’s generous support of the arts, music journalists Brandon Stosuy and Alec Hanley Bemis both ended up attending the 10th annual By: Larm conference, the Scandinavian equivalent of SXSW. Impressed by the music—but even more so by the locals, the weather, and the setting—they decided to review the country for their friends at Asthmatic Kitty. Their discussion was conducted over IM right after returning from Trondheim, on the day before Valentine’s Day.
Posted by Alec Hanley Bemis and Brandon Stosuy

Rafter is simultaneously the scheming villain defending the nebula of his ego and our hero caterwauling through the sky.
Posted by David Michael Stith

Rafter: For me nonsense is totally serious.
Posted by Rafter

Rafter the raw foods eating mad wizard.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

A rare snowfall in Cleveland Tennessee cancels school, starts a snow war, and ends with hot pancakes and milk.
Posted by Jamie Miles

Author and musician Adam Gnade feels romantic about the Bay Area.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Sufjan is tempted to hole up in the coat check.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

Let's make Onigirl!
Posted by Laura Park

Asthmatic Kitty Sports Correspondent Johnny Bob, who sometimes watches Super Bowls for the segueways between the commercials, reviews conference rooms of the very nippleless Super Bowl XLI!
Posted by Johnny Bob

Sufjan Stevens reviews the on-stage paradoxic precision, efficiency, and beauty of The Curtains at the Cake Shop, New York City.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

Vito finds the slop worth slugging down in NYC.
Posted by Vito Aiuto

I sometimes can't stand reading about music.
Posted by Tom Eaton

It's never too late for waxing about the sonic weaving of Arthur Lee.
Posted by Lowell Brams

Gala Bent describes how illustrator Penelope Dullaghan uses art to build community.
Posted by Gala Bent

And there's a river rambling through the fields and valleys...
Posted by Laura Park

Saddam reacts to the verdict.
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

More Animals of the Arctic singer/songerwriter Michael Tapscott discovers unsharpened corners in Finding Shelter.
Posted by Michael Tapscott

Chris Cohen tells Roy, "Keep on going!"
Posted by The Curtains

Short stories based on Springsteen’s Nebraska album!
Posted by Adam Gnade

Make of it what you will...
Posted by Castanets

An inward form of art that evokes John Travolta, meat, and Christmas.
Posted by Gala Bent

Important goals.
Posted by Paul Goode

The wonders of battery powered light bulbs
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

Nick Hennies of The Weird Weeds lists his top five albums of the year, and finds one 2006 album "bulletproof," another "monolithic," and a third encapsulated only by a YouTube video.
Posted by Nick Hennies

Christmas tree disposal . . . in spring.
Posted by Laura Park

John Ringhofer of Half-Handed Cloud gets all listy-eyed at Christmas.
Posted by Half-handed Cloud

It's the end of the year, and that means lots of lists. Shara of My Brightest Diamond shares 7 unlisted gems she's discovered.
Posted by My Brightest Diamond

In the third and final part of the Shapes & Sizes tour diary, the band experiences only the side effects of a memory-inducing drug and not the memory induction. As the tour progesses, their expectations lower and they correspondingly have a much better time. And as these stories often do, it all ends with that washed up actor from CHiPs.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Things aren't looking good for Shapes & Sizes in this second part of their tour diary. It starts with some good thrift finds, but ends in spotty cell coverage and empty rooms. So sad.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Johnny Bob almost walks out.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

In the first of a three part series, the Shapes & Sizes tour starts off well enough, replete with omelettes and crab cakes. But things end on a bad note, what with not enough TV to go around.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Post-Cold War Hockey.
Posted by Jai Agnish

John Beeler rambles about apples, Christmas trees, taxonomy, and the way things live and then die.
Posted by John Beeler

Santa is the Greatest!
Posted by Zack Bent

Crafty Christmas.
Posted by Tonya Beeler

Writer and musician Michael Tapscott says that Flying Canon's debut has something to do with fire and clouds.
Posted by Michael Tapscott

...this drawing fails to capture how bad getting shot with salt in
the shins hurts!
Posted by Laura Park

Portland’s first snow: a critical analysis!
Posted by Adam Gnade

It's so true.

Posted by Tom Eaton

The sculpture but not sculpture art of Erwin Wurm.
Posted by Zack Bent

Oiler's coach McTavish motivates his team.
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

Living in a state of constant irony...
Posted by Paul Brownell

David Michael Stith visits “The Ambitious City” with his friend Aileen McCallum.
Posted by David Michael Stith

Mapping Sampsonia Way
Posted by Gala Bent

Handmade gifts at heartfelt prices.
Posted by Tonya Beeler

Vito risks plagiarism to describe an ice cream shop in Princeton, New Jersey.
Posted by Vito Aiuto

The Language of Paint
Posted by Gala Bent

Norman McLaren lays bare the magician's tricks pt. 3
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

Rock gets academic.
Posted by Tom Eaton

Gala Bent on the "highly aestheticized, scientific" painter Rachel Illingworth.
Posted by Gala Bent

Sharpening my eyes
Posted by Laura Park

John Ringhofer explores the inner schema of joke-telling as a performance musician and discovers a waffle and blank stares.
Posted by Half-handed Cloud

Norman McLaren lays bare the magician's tricks pt. 2
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

Election Day
Posted by Castanets

No breakfast in Sunday Holland before 2.
Posted by Castanets

Something About Restraint
Posted by Zack Bent

Dreams last night that may hint at actual underlying psychodramas
Posted by Castanets

Ross Sawyers' photographs illustrate a sense of suburban isolation with quiet, studied impact.
Posted by Gala Bent

Nick Hennies of the Weird Weeds studies Peter & Wolf's Lighthouse as it studies "nostalgia and affection for life and the world."
Posted by Nick Hennies

Nescafe and Kronenbourg
Posted by Castanets

Fish, basketball, dancing, records and assination.
Posted by Chris Cantalini

John Beeler explores the genesis and world of the text-based computer game Photopia.
Posted by John the AK INTERNO

Cardiff (and leaving softcore comments up on your page)
Posted by Castanets

Norman McLaren lays bare the magician's tricks.
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

Beauty and Terror in the work of Jen Corace.
Posted by Gala Bent

Sufjan is scared by cheap makeup, creamation, ice, art, different rooms, and puppets.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

Exeter Wrapup
Posted by Castanets

Five reasons to open your mouth in Cincinnati, fill it up, and then close it.
Posted by Joe Long

Call us Brutus/Coventry 2
Posted by Castanets

John Ringhofer rides his bike to the commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and makes some startling discoveries, which he reveals in a series of bullet points and categories.
Posted by Half-handed Cloud

Slow Your Roll
Posted by Castanets

Cardinals 4, Tigers 2
Posted by Johnny Bob

Auribus Teneo Lupum
Posted by Laura Park

Sheffield is Gray And I Think it Has Something to do With Warp Records
Posted by Castanets

Cardinals 5, Tigers 4
Posted by Johnny Bob

Nathan of Shapes & Sizes questions the quintessential album of the quintessential lo-fi band that launched a thousand other quintessential lo-fi bands.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

London
Posted by Castanets

Vito enjoys the "modest, shuffling guitar" of painter Andy Friedman.
Posted by Vito Aiuto

Big Red Sun Blues
Posted by Castanets

Cardinals 5, Tigers 0
Posted by Johnny Bob

Tigers 3, Cardinals 1
Posted by Johnny Bob

Raymond Raposa of the Castanets with 5 Things, one of which slays him and another that is new.
Posted by Castanets

Cardinals 7, Tigers 2
Posted by Johnny Bob

This is time traveler’s pop at its quintessential.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

Development and decay and what they have in common.
Posted by John the AK INTERNO

Nintendo hi-jacked by prog-punk enthusiasts.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

If Kraftwerk had been a hip-hop act from a small town on the Caspian Sea.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

It was a VisionQuest (tm) and i discovered that my "spirit animal" is Colin Farrell in Miami Vice.
Posted by Rafter

To say that The Wire is a police drama is like saying that Crime and Punishment is a murder mystery, or that SpaceCamp is just a space movie. It's true, of course, but it's also missing the point. The Wire is so much more.
Posted by John Beeler the AK INTERNO

John from Half-handed Cloud enjoys a game of Name-that-Tune for 1 ½ years!
Posted by Half-handed Cloud

The album is a delicate but tastefully punctuated landscape, comprised of songs with narratives winding in and out of each other and open for decoding. 
Posted by Michael Kaufmann