AltWeeklies Wire
The Slits Are Back, Sounding as Uncompromising and Relevant as Evernew
The current Slits sound remarkably like the original Slits, but with fewer rough edges and more instrumental sophistication. On Trapped Animal, The Slits mix poppy, dubby reggae and danceable rock-reggae with articulate but streetwise dreadlocked British feminist ideology.
Tucson Weekly |
Carl Hanni |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Trapped Animal, The Slits
Tom Cushman Revisits His Memories from Ali, Frazier, Foreman and Morenew
"It's hard to convey this, but I actually wouldn't ever have called myself a fight fan," Cushman says. "I was just fascinated with the people..."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon |
10-29-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Star and Micey: Legend in the Making?new
Memphis' newest export is Star and Micey, a young three-piece that arrives full-born with its self-titled debut CD.
Tucson Weekly |
Carl Hanni |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Star and Micey
Hope Sandoval Releases Another Album Full of Deceptively Simple Songsnew
Fans of the former Mazzy Star vocalist will rejoice to learn she has a new disc out, and that it is perhaps a more beautiful psychedelic dream-pop experience than her first record.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
fun's Orchestrated Punk Pop Draws a Rabid Followingnew
"It's wild to hear a room full of people singing along and it seems like every single one of them knows the words and is singing at the top of their lungs."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
10-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Aim and Ignite, fun
Pardon the Colloquialism, but the New Mountain Goats Album is Super-Duper Goodnew
The Life of the World to Come is so good it may make you giggle and squirm and play it over and over again.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Ha Ha Tonka Finds Something New in the Shadows of Southern Rocknew
Growing up between the Ozark Mountains and the Missouri state park the group is named after, Roberts and his bandmates in Ha Ha Tonka play a beguiling brand of post-Southern rock they've taken to calling "indie rock meets O Brother, Where Art Thou."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
10-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tom Russell Eschews Modern Indie Rock's Emasculated Songwritingnew
"(Indie-rock) voices have become wimpy, and so has the songwriting," says Russell, 56, matter-of-factly, prompted by my first question: Where have all the real men singer/songwriters gone, and why doesn't indie rock offer any?
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why? Wades Through the Strange 'Eskimo Snow'new
Started as a pet project by Yoni Wolf, whose deadpan raps and quirky musical tastes (culled from hip-hop, rock and folk influences) made for strange bedfellows, Why? soon swelled into a full-fledged band with Yoni's brother, Josiah, and friend Doug McDiarmid joining.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
10-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eskimo Snow, Why?
Colorado Springs Authors Imagine World War IIInew
If you want to get the government's attention, don't write a well-documented, thoroughly researched news article. Instead, write a well-documented, thoroughly researched novel.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
10-29-2009 |
War
Other Than the Fact That It's Boring, 'Bright Star' is a Fine Filmnew
Watching Bright Star was like having dinner while sitting across from a couple who are completely in love. "Wow, you guys sure like to touch noses. Umm ... waiter? Can I get some more bread? Waiter? Hello?"
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Bright Star, Jane Campion
Another Year, Another Terrible 'Saw' Sequelnew
It seems like the Saw movies will never end, that they will return every year like an evil plague -- a scaly, slimy demon determined to steal your money. I know this very notion gives me serious nightmares.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Greutert, Saw VI
The Coen Brothers Follow One Man's Effort to Know More than He Cannew
Stories that go nowhere are generally not good entertainment. But stories about stories that go nowhere, as Joel and Ethan Coen have shown with A Serious Man, can be incredible.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: A Serious Man, The Coen Brothers
'Wild Things' is a Delightful Movie for Adults About Being a Kidnew
After four years of filming and all kinds of delays, Spike Jonze has managed to put something on screen that resembles nothing like I've ever seen before. What he's made here is something wonderful ... just wonderful.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-29-2009 |
Reviews
'Sweet Smell' is an Intimate Portrait of a Distinctive Tohono O'odham Artistnew
In the affecting, beautifully illustrated oral history of the local artist's life and work, The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana, his distinctive voice is paired with his even more distinctive art to create a very intimate portrait of Chana, who died of neurocysticercosis in 2004 at the criminally young age of 54.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
10-29-2009 |
Nonfiction
