Listening to John Keenan’s “Wreckage of the Past” feels like being handed the audio diary of a ghost who is not yet dead. This is an 18-song excavation of a psyche at war, made all the more intense by the knowledge that Keenan is the sole architect—producer, writer, mixer, and tormented protagonist. The whole project has the hermetically sealed, slightly feverish quality of a...

Los Angeles is full of stories, but none of them are nearly as interesting as Edie Yvonne's. The journey that Edie has taken has been anything but normal. She made her movie begin with Chloe Sevigny in "Kitty," which was shown at Cannes. However, in just six months, she has won our hearts not with her on-screen persona but with six audible songs that are powerful,...