AltWeeklies Wire
Roll Acosta: The Dawnnew
Jacob (Roll) Acosta is a singer-songwriter and classically trained guitarist who fronts an acoustic folk-pop trio that bears his nickname.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Roll Acosta
Walter Gibbons: Jungle Music: Mixed With Lovenew
Walter Gibbons was there back in the day, at disco's inception, in the legendary dance clubs of New York City.
Tucson Weekly |
Carl Hanni |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Walter Gibbons
Sia: We Are Bornnew
In a just universe, our reigning queen of pop would be Sia Furler, not Lady Gaga.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Sia
Call Me Fishmealnew
'Piranha 3-D' satisfies an appetite for blood and circuses.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Alexandre Aja, Piranha 3-D
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soulnew
Dark Night of the Soul has finally been released, four months after Mark Linkous took his own life.
Tucson Weekly |
Stephen Seigel |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Wallet Weirdonew
'Wild Grass' is one of those artsy French films that many American audiences loathe.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Alain Resnais, Wild Grass
Rambo: Ancient Musclenew
'The Expendables' is just awful—but our resident Stallone addict is still looking forward to the sequel.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-30-2010 |
Reviews
Going-Out Partynew
Get Low is an interesting sort of mystery film, because, unlike the standard mystery movie, the question is not "who dunnit?" but "what done he did?" Robert Duvall stars as Felix Bush, an ornery old hermit who, like all the best ornery old hermits, lives on the outskirts of a small town in 1930s Tennessee...
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-25-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Get Low, Aaron Schneider
School Is Murdernew
So how does a reviewer who was a public-school teacher review a book by a novelist who was a public-school principal, and whose work is touted by other public-school folks she knows? Carefully? With correct grammar?...
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
08-23-2010 |
Unclassified
Tags: Gerry Hernbrode
Red Meatnew
Pumping the air back into despair.
Tucson Weekly |
Max Cannon |
08-18-2010 |
Cartoons
Tags: Red Meat
Hillstomp: Darker the Nightnew
The third studio album by this raw country-blues-punk duo from Portland starts with "Hammer Ring," which sounds like a field chant filtered through a beat-up old transistor radio, with shots of shallow bucket drums walloping through the distortion.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
08-13-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Hillstomp
Ministry and Musicnew
Richie Furay, with help from friends old and new, is enjoying a career renaissance.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Lipson |
08-13-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Richie Furay
Arcade Fire: The Suburbsnew
If you can find it in your heart not to begrudge the spinning of mythology out of suburban sprawl, then you're cleared to fall for The Suburbs.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
08-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Arcade Fire
Seeking Standardsnew
The San Francisco-based country-rock band Or, The Whale is trying to create music that will be appreciated decades from now.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
08-12-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Or, The Whale
Swedish Suspensenew
Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's crime novels are now so popular that, to the surprise of snooty Europeans, actual Americans have been found reading them, in spite of the fact that the novels are written in words However, for the true American, only moving, talking pictures are a fit form of entertainment...
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-12-2010 |
Reviews
