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Group Shot 1975‘Trying out ideas for Station to Station at Cherokee Studios. From left, Dennis Davies, Bobby Womack, David, Roy Bitten from Bruce Springsteen’s band and Ronnie Wood in the foreground’ Share on Facebook Share on Twitter…

Image: Z2 ComicsWhen you hear the name “Weird Al” Yankovic, you think of music. You think of parody songs. You think of all the unforgettable music videos he’s made over the years. But Weird Al has always been about spreading his wings. A biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, was released late last year, and now he’s got his very own graphic novel—with a twist that fits in with everything you know and love about him.The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic is now available wherever books are sold, and instead…

Meet Jeff, an Amazon employee with zero work-life balance. All he does is toil his days away for the mega-corp, making sure customers are united with their mounds of totally necessary impulse buys. He needs a vacation! But since he’s a drone, that sounds impossible... until the world finds a way. By ending.This somehow delightful yet also depressing short film from filmmaking collective shy kids—shared by Short of the Week—skewers consumerism while proposing a not-entirely-impossible view of the near future.JEFF | Amazon…

Photo: Chase BlissBuying a gift for a musician can be stressful, especially if you’re not a musician. But it doesn’t have to be!When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with guitar gear. My folks did their best to keep up with what I had my eye on, and they would usually just ask me for a list of options. This is a practical approach, but it takes away some of the magic of gift-giving. Ideally, you should surprise that special musician in your life with something they might have not prioritized in their own shopping. Look…

Image: Craig Barritt / Stringer (Getty Images)I hold up a little toy to the camera; it’s a Lorme, a resin art toy that my friend made. “Is that a plague doctor?” Jacob Anderson, star of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, asks as I turn it around to show him the little details. Anderson has a collection of art toys himself, so I thought I’d share a few of my own small collection before we start our interview. “Oh, hello.”The man said hi to a little toy. Honestly, what a charmer. I tucked wee Mister Scratch away as Anderson…

As Inu-Oh rocks theaters, I keep thinking about Tomona Dan-No-Ura, whose narrative ostensibly begins and ends the film. As he passes through all the stages of his life, becoming Tomoichi when he joins the Biwa priests and then Tomoari when he begins his own musical theater sect, his art becomes intimately tied to his gender presentation. As he flouts expectations he experiments with both his music and his sartorial choices, he turns gender into a performance, and dares people to tell him he’s wrong for it.There’s…

Image: GKidsFrom acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa (Crybaby Devilman, Lu Over the Wall, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!), comes Inu-Oh, a historical anachronism that blends glam rock with Noh theater, creating a delightfully flamboyant and vibrant film that merges myth, history, and music. The film is eccentric and expansive, following the semi-folkloric artist Tomona from a child to his time as biwa priest, and finally to a rock star in his own right.Along the way to fame, Tomona breaks from the order of biwa-playing…