Van Morrison continues the jazz tendencies of Versatile on You’re Driving Me Crazy, a collaboration with the late trumpeter, organist and general virtuoso Joey DeFrancesco. [...]

“Humbug” may be the quintessential episode of The X-Files. It revolves around the murder of a carnival worker and unfolds as a series of continual revisions and [...]

Dod Kalm is one of the first episodes in The X-Files where the horror stems from the flipside of network acceleration – analog obsolescence. The setup is both historic and [...]

Sometimes The X-Files edges towards absurdity but that’s a key part of its restless quest for the arcane. “Fearful Symmetry” is one of those episodes that seems to be [...]

“End Game” continues the extraordinary mythological arc of “Colony.” This new iteration in the extra-terrestrial grand narrative of the series renews the aesthetic [...]

“Fresh Bones” has a ghostly, half-formed quality, although that works quite well with its fixation with the threshold between life and death. It draws heavily on Wes [...]

Towards the end of the last episode, “Irresistible,” Mulder and Scully reflected that the serial killer was “extraordinary in his ordinariness.” “Die Hand Die [...]

Van Morrison left the longest hiatus in his career to date between Keep It Simple and Born to Sing: No Plan B but he would make up for it with the most prolific decade of his [...]

As the title suggests, The Vault is a collection of older tracks, most of them composed between 1985 and 1986, and was recorded at the same time as 1996’s Chaos and [...]

Not only is “Irresistible” highly atmospheric and cinematic, it feels like an especially pivotal episode in the early trajectory of The X-Files as a whole. While the [...]