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Iron & Wine Pets 'The Shepherd's Dog'new
Living essentially in the middle of nowhere seems to serve a songwriter like Sam Beam quite well.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Iron & Wine
September 11 American Intolerance
The story behind the film September Dawn and the unveiling of one of the most hidden secrets of Mormon religious fanaticism -- the Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 11, 1857.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
'Trailer Trash' Shows Poor White Folks Differently Than 'Cops'new
Don Diego Ramirez's documentary humanizes its subjects without flinching from the horror of what they perpetrate upon each other.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Pornographers Issue a 'Meh' Albumnew
The joyfully erratic sounds present in their earlier Mass Romantic, Electric Version, and, to some degree, Twin Cinema are, on first listen, surprisingly absent.
Baltimore City Paper |
Allison Levin |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
Common and UGK Offer the Best Rap Releases So Farnew
Common's Finding Forever and UGK's Underground Kingz are "albums" in the true sense of the word: a group of consistent, thematically cohesive songs.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brandon Soderburg |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: UGK, Underground Kingz
Black Moth Super Rainbow Doesn't Write Songs, It Doodlesnew
Dandelion Gum can sound like the lo-fi bedroom work of one or two people.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
The Black Lips Grows Up By Staying Youngnew
With Good Bad Not Evil, the band's Vice Records studio full-length debut and fifth album overall, the Georgia quartet is building more buzz than fuzz with the group's least rust-bucket, adolescence-addled collection of blues-rawk.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tony Ware |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil
Black Moth Super Rainbow Only Sounds Like Drug Musicnew
It's easy to see how that mistake could be made. It's all heady fuzz and spiraling surrealism, at once terrifying and giddy. Dandelion Gum's either a fairy tale with fangs or a nightmare drenched in syrup.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kiernan Maletsky |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Monolith Festival Plans For Morenew
The inaugural Monolith might not have a brand name like its rival fests ... but look at the lineup.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
09-18-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Monolith Festival, concerts
Recipe: Tequila Done Right for Dieciséis de Septiembrenew
What Americans get wrong about tequila -- and how to get it right.
Weekly Alibi |
Maren Tarro |
09-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
'Dukecity Sign*' Captures the Soul of Alburquerquenew
How a strange, self-published book of awful, full-color photographs of signs became an astonishingly original homage to the true soul of a city.
Weekly Alibi |
Steven Robert Allen |
09-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Adams, Dukecity Sign*
Against Me! Discusses New Album, Butch Vignew
Touring for their fourth full-length album, New Wave, these guys are rocking the boat with punk that's rich, raw and honest.
Weekly Alibi |
Justin Alan Hood |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Against Me!, New Wave
Spectrum's Drone State of Mindnew
To tell the story of Spectrum, you first have to tell the short, furious story of Spacemen 3, the British band that reworked and re-presented psychedelic rock as a tranced-out mix tape of fuzz guitars and dreamy melodies.
Weekly Alibi |
Kyle Silfer |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Spectrum
Blasfilmersnew
The Ten is an ostensible comedy, ostensibly based on the Ten Commandments. There's not really a sustained laugh in the whole movie.
Tags: David Wain, The Ten
The Antiwar Movement's Dirty Secret
Supporting the troops -- U.S. troops -- requires the antiwar movement to abandon the Iraqi resistance.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
09-18-2007 |
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