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Godhunter: Wolvesnew

Local sludge quintet Godhunter finally unveils a proper physical-CD release for their debut five-track album, which became available via the band's Bandcamp site earlier this year. Recorded at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler and released by Tucson extreme-music label Acid Reflux, Wolves wields a medulla oblongata-wrenching wallop and obvious political (anarcho-libertarian) lyrics...

Tucson Weekly | Jarret Keene | 05-16-2012 | Reviews

High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriisnew

To call High on Fire's sound "punishing" would not be hyperbole. While it may seem unrelenting and repetitive at first, it's a pain that becomes addictive after multiple rotations.

Tucson Weekly | Brian Mock | 05-11-2012 | Reviews

TUSD and Desegregation: a Historynew

Desegregation efforts in the Tucson Unified School District started with a lawsuit filed 38 years ago. In 1974, two families filed separate lawsuits against the district to address disparities in the education of African-American and Mexican-American students...

Tucson Weekly | Mari Herreras | 05-10-2012 | Education

Last Call Brawlers: The Pressures of Living, The Darkness of Dyingnew

The Brawlers have been around since 1999, and their latest album shows the band's meld of rockabilly, punk and surf music at its most seamless. The local quartet keeps things simple and direct, always opting for heart and guts rather than elaboration...

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 05-08-2012 | Reviews

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Cajun Crusadersnew

BeauSoleil posits that you can be American, and be different, too.

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 05-07-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

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Ties That Bindnew

Internal struggles in the University of Arizona Mexican American Studies department continue to grow.

Tucson Weekly | Mari Herreras | 05-03-2012 | Education

The Green in Ganjanew

'Dealing Death and Drugs' shows the human costs of the drug war -- and the importance of marijuana to cartels.

Tucson Weekly | Greg Harman | 04-26-2012 | Nonfiction

Lightships: Electric Cablesnew

Electric Cables, the debut album by Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love (under the Lightships moniker), is as bright and breezy as a summer day. That's in keeping with Love's past in C86-style bedroom pop, most recently his contributions to 2010's Shadows.

Tucson Weekly | Sean Bottai | 04-20-2012 | Reviews

Zambri: House of Baasanew

The Zambri sisters' voices recall Siouxsie Sioux, almost to distraction. Part of House of Baasa's dark frisson comes from how it carries on Sioux's particular legacy, though it has less of the murky pulse of Kaleidoscope's "Christine" (though the Baasa song "Hundred Hearts" comes closest to that kind of minimalism, while cheekily suggesting the main riff to Berlin's "Take My Breath Away") and more of the symphonic clutter of Superstition's "Kiss Them for Me."...

Tucson Weekly | Sean Bottai | 04-20-2012 | Reviews

Lay of the Landnew

Tucson's rapid-fire downtown-development plans raise a ruckus.

Tucson Weekly | Tim Vanderpool | 04-20-2012 | Housing & Development

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Andrew Bird: Break It Yourselfnew

"This peculiar incantation, I'm sure you've heard it before," Andrew Bird sings on "Desperation Breeds ...," the first song on Break It Yourself, his sixth solo album. As an introduction to the album, it's an interesting notion, both true and sort of false...

Tucson Weekly | Eric Swedlund | 04-20-2012 | Reviews

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