TODAY'S TONIC
Head Over Heels
Goldfrapp sure gets restless. Each of the duo’s albums has pulled a 180. From the Lynchian ambience of their debut Felt Mountain to the electronic cabaret of Black Cherry, then the glammy disco of Supernature followed by the folksiness of ... more
RECENTLY ON MODERN TONIC
Empire State of Mind
Only a publication that celebrates NYC in all its minutiae — that would be New York magazine — could produce My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City (out March 23), a book that, well, celebrates NYC in all its minutiae. What began as ... more
Tattoo You
There was a time when Swedish imports were shiny, happy, vowel-heavy things like ABBA, Saabs and Ikea. Then came Steig Larsson’s posthumous best-selling novel The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (opens Friday in select cities), the first of ... more
Mid-March Music Video 3Way
We made it through the ides of March, so let's celebrate with some of the best videos of March.
Vitalic: "Second Lives"
This bouncy, rave-y instrumental from the French-born Italian Vitalic features a public restroom camera catching people ... more
Out of the Box
With the economy these days and our subsequent tendency to clamp down on a job (any job) like a Kardashian's thighs around a stray pro athlete, we seem to have forgotten a key tenet of American life: work sucks. Jack Simon (creator Michael ... more
