AltWeeklies Wire
Blowing Up The Shinsnew

Will Sub Pop's unprecedented push of the Shins' new album usher the indie darlings right out the door?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J Barr |
01-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Shins
Here's Howenew
Denver's toughest radio executive talks about (and justifies) past battles and his latest series of ballsy maneuvers.
Tags: radio
Trippin', Indeednew
My Morning Jacket's road goes on forever.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
01-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: My Morning Jacket
The Meaning of Mayhemnew
First Blood's Carl Schwartz talks about writing unexpected music.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
01-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: First Blood
Rogue Wavesnew
A new report cuts through the static on the radio industry.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
01-16-2007 |
Music
Getting Bastednew
I'd never had a band bring beer to an interview -- until this one.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
01-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Turkeys
Textiquettenew
Don't be a masshole -- keep your messages personal.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
01-16-2007 |
Commentary
Bikini Revolutionnew

22-year-old Mariyah Moten put on a two-piece and became (in)famous in Pakistan.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
01-16-2007 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Once Upon a Time in Spainnew

Guillermo del Toro discusses fairy tales, fascists, and everybody's new favorite movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Celebration of Womennew
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodovar, and Volver is his ode of love to women's congress and fortitude.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Stepping Outnew
Although littered with cliches and shopworn manipulations, this film's dance sequences are so captivating that it's almost possible to forget you've seen this movie a hundred times before.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Stomp The Yard, Sylvain White
Aromatic Musingsnew
Adapted from Patrick Suskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Jackboots and Dragonfliesnew
Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
A Certain Qualitynew
This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre