The A.E. Hotchner New Play Festival took place this past weekend on campus (fun fact: Hotchner, a playwright and Wash. U. alum, co-founded Newman’s Own along with “Cool Hand Luke” himself. How cool is that? No wonder Princeton Review says we have the ninth-best campus food in the country).

The first time I Googled “James Blake,” soon after the release of his stellar 2010 debut EP “The Bells Sketch,” I was surprised to learn that there was also a tennis player named James Blake and that he was significantly more famous than his musical counterpart.

Ladies and gentlemen, if I say Paul Thomas Anderson is the best filmmaker of the last 15 years, you will agree. This is the director who slapped a thirteen-inch prosthetic penis between the thighs of Mark Wahlberg and made it art. The director behind “There Will Be Blood,” which The Times magazine recently heralded as the second greatest movie of all time.

The third annual Loufest starts this weekend (August 25 and 26th) in Forest Park and this year’s lineup is a doozy! Here is a brief lineup of all the shows to see. The Saturday lineup kicks it off with Sleepy Kitty (1 p.m.

Free beer! Free live records! Not-so-free records! For most of today’s music listeners, attaining music is a non-issue. Online stores such as iTunes, online libraries like Grooveshark or Pandora, and various other less legal means have made music all too available over the Internet.

Radiohead is one of the last great rock bands to break the mainstream barrier, which unfortunately means that it is also one of the last great rock bands to have expensive concert tickets. Given Radiohead’s live reputation (several of the band’s Glastonbury sets are nothing short of legendary), however, the steep entry fee should be well worth it.

In 2008, Student Life published a ranking of the 10 best songs to play while having sex. In line with the “Sex Sells” business model, that list remains our all-time most viewed article. For this year’s Sex Week issue, Cadenza decided to update the list.

When The Roots were unable to make it to Loufest because of Hurricane Irene, the festival found Deerhunter, an Atlanta-based quartet that claims Atlas Sound (real name Bradford Cox) as a members, for its last minute headliner. The final minutes of their set were so intense.

“Last time I was here it was raining/It ain’t raining anymore,” opens Ryan Adams’ latest album, “Ashes & Fire.” After Adams’ two-year hiatus from making new music and a lengthy period of toying with every style from heavy metal to hip-hop, “Ashes & Fire” represents his long-awaited return to his solo alternative-country niche.

When Wilco singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy split from his prior band (St. Louis’ own Uncle Tupelo) in early ’94, he embarked on a journey that gradually took his new band’s sound away from Tupelo’s spontaneous alternative country and instead towards a more studio-based, experimental indie-rock sound (like a modern day Traffic or Derek and the Dominos, but with even more drugs).