AltWeeklies Wire
Reserve Space in Your Playlist Now for These Anticipated Albumsnew

The music industry showed signs of life in 2011: Adele sold 14.5 million copies of 21, and Apple, Spotify, Google, and others launched music cloud services in what may prove to be the biggest turning point for music since iTunes dropped in 2001.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-13-2012 |
Music
Tags: new music in 2012
Review: 'Carnage'new

Propelled by juicy performances, Roman Polanski's brisk drama offers a fine opportunity to wallow in excess and feel superior afterward.
Devil of a Jobnew

Colorado Dems, GOP want to promote employment in 2012, but appear far apart on the details.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chet Hardin |
01-13-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Jobs in Colorado
Citizens Dividednew

Explaining the Montana Supreme Court's remarkable ruling against corporate electioneering.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Steven Rosenfeld |
01-13-2012 |
Elections
Third Root’s ‘Winter in America’new

Though the year is just getting started, one of the most ambitious and original local collaborations of 2012 is bound to be Third Root, a project by Mojoe's Easy Lee (poet, author, and emcee) and Mexican Stepgrandfather (Marco Cervantes, an emcee who also teaches Mexican-American and Afro-Chicano history at UTSA).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
01-13-2012 |
Music
Political Futuresnew

Arizona's new congressional map scrambles the electoral landscape.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
01-13-2012 |
Politics
Occupy D.C. Has Already Won and Already Lostnew

How Occupy D.C. can go out on top.
Washington City Paper |
Shani Hilton |
01-13-2012 |
#OCCUPY
Newt Hampshirenew

Going undercover in Gingrich's GOP primary operation.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan McCarthy |
01-13-2012 |
Elections
Whole Lotta Lifenew

Wilco's energetic new album finds Jeff Tweedy loosening up on the reins.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
01-12-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
White Cascade's EP2new

Raleigh trio White Cascade is following that painful rule of creativity—cheerily discarding the past to try something new.
Tags: White Cascade
Indiana Bill Targets Meth and CAFOsnew

The Indiana House is now clear to hold floor debate on both right-to-work legislation and the CAFO/meth bill. The chamber, though, remains volatile.
Rolling Stone's Super Bowl Tailgate Lineupnew

The Rock n Roll Tailgate party will feature Pete Wentz, Jane's Addiction and the Roots.
Pardons: The Coward's Way Outnew

How Tammy Ellis Gatlin died at hands of a man pardoned by Haley Barbour.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
01-12-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Separate, Not Equalnew

Orlando's same-sex couples celebrate passage of new domestic partner registry, but a fumble by Orange County's mayor dampens the mood.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
01-12-2012 |
LGBT
To Catch a Beer Thiefnew

Circle K teams up with Silent Witness to look for minor criminals via Facebook.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian J. Pedersen |
01-12-2012 |
Crime & Justice