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201. Music

     The Accidental Tourists

     Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players create perfect Kodak moments

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 30, 2006

     The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is an excellent book about art that's bubbled up from unusual wellsprings. New York Times critic Michael...

202. Bookcap

     The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

     By Irvine Welsh

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 30, 2006

     "I wanted to have one guy who was just a total bastard ... and the other guy is a nice wee mommy's boy," explains Irvine Welsh, sitting poolside at the Phoenix Hotel during a...

203. Let's Get Killed

     Christopher Willits' subtle soundtracks

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 30, 2006

     San Francisco is made for heady soundtracks. When a heavy morning fog reminds you that fall is just around the corner, there's nothing like bundling your ears up under a pair...

204. Let's Get Killed

     Bittersweet Symphonies:Popscene's decade of Anglophile adoration

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 23, 2006

     Consider how much your music taste has changed over the past decade. I know I've been through a half-dozen different genre courtships. But in the mid-'90s I was pretty crushed...

205. Let's Get Killed

     De-Lousing the Mars Volta

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 16, 2006

     The first time I heard guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala's chemistry connect was in a closet-sized Austin shack. They'd partnered for a little...

206. Hear This

     Parlez-Vous Faux Français?

     By Michael Alan Goldberg, Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling

     Published: August 16, 2006

     Denver's DeVotchKa, a self-described "Eastern bloc indie-rock" quartet, is similar to the likes of Gogol Bordello and even Firewater — Slavic melodies, cabaret-punk...

207. Music

     Cracked-Up Egos

     Carl Barat settles a score with Dirty Pretty Things

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 2, 2006

     Pete Doherty's continuing "success" is one of the most depressing rock 'n' roll spectacles of the past decade (a steep list to top). The former frontman for U.K. darlings the...

208. Hear This

     Hear ThisScientific methods, stoner rock, and Scandinavians

     By Eric Davidson, Michael Alan Goldberg and Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 2, 2006

     Seattle art-rock trio the Dead Science draws a lot of comparisons to bleak postpunk melodramatists Xiu Xiu — mainly due to the gripping, affected falsetto wanly delivered...

209. Let's Get Killed

     Reign in blood and BBQ at Slayer in San Jose

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 26, 2006

     Last week's Unholy Alliance Tour had summer inked into its pores like a thick, black pentagram tattoo. The air around San Jose's HP Pavilion smelled like grilled meat; the...

210. Hear This

     Causing tension with the Buzzcocks; The Cops bring on the fuzz

     By Jennifer Maerz and Frances Reade

     Published: July 26, 2006

     Fresh off a youngster-schooling stint on the Warped Tour, reanimated punk gods the Buzzcocks crash into Mezzanine this week, lead by original members Pete Shelley and Steve...

211. Let's Get Killed

     Piper at the Pearly Gates

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 19, 2006

     R.I.P. Syd Barrett. The original crazy diamond is now a sparkle in the sky, having passed away last week of unnamed causes. The songwriter who helped usher into the music world...

212. Let's Get Killed

     Cosmic Wonder

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 12, 2006

     Last month, the New York Times dropped heavy praise on a loosely framed sample of music hitting what one of my friends calls "the third ear." Writer Will Hermes heralded the...

213. Hear This

     Tenacious Trainwrecks and punk rock Spit-wads

     By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Sam Prestianni

     Published: July 12, 2006

     Seattle-via-Michigan punks the Spits have long been considered the Northwest's blue-collar DIY darlings. Lead by the wry Wood brothers (Sean and Erin), the band is...

214. BeatBox

     Viva la France dance

     By Brock Keeling and Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 12, 2006

     Small Sails don't just create ambient electronic soundtracks; they perform them with correlating cinematic footage for the full audio-visual experience. The Portland four-piece...

215. Let's Get Killed

     Going fishing for inspiration

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 5, 2006

     Writer's block's a bitch. But the effect is twice as evil if you do most of your work alone (solo artists, graphic designers, freelance writers; we've all felt it). When the...

216. Reviewed

     Peaches

     (XL/Beggars)

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 5, 2006

     Peaches Impeach My Bush Six years after leading a charge for sex-positive electro punks to "fuck the pain away," Peaches has been slowly slumping into a one -shtick pony. Her...

217. Hear This

     Flowing bodily fluids and a surreal sort of evil

     By Jennifer Maerz, Sam Prestianni and Dan Strachota

     Published: July 5, 2006

     Vancouver’s metal czar 3 Inches of Blood employs two vocalists for double the theatrical impact. Cam Pipes goes for the operatic histrionics, allowing his voice to alternately...

218. Let's Get Killed

     From highbrow to hardcore: Matthew Barney, Björk, and the digicamarazzi

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: June 28, 2006

     Culture queens of Björk's status can't just saunter into a room without magnetically tractor-beaming the eyeballs of everyone within sight of her hot-pink stockings....

219. Let's Get Killed

     A holy trinity: men, metal, and Midori Sours

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: June 21, 2006

     "Duuuuuude! Plaaaaaay it! Plaaaaay it!" Sometimes extreme adoration takes the form of imposing monosyllabic commands to total strangers. Other times it comes out in lacy,...

220. Hear This

     Fathers of invention, from Zappa to Radiohead

     By Michael Alan Goldberg, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Hiya Swanhuyser

     Published: June 21, 2006

     In the nearly 10 years (gasp!) since they had their watershed release OK Computer and officially became The Most Important Band in the World, Radiohead has created the...