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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Despite the gleaming onyx tour bus and the cop car occupying the loading zone, the crowd sprouting like Marlboro-scented weeds along the front wall, and the scratchy garble of...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
"We're talking about a very classic Tennessee Williams play here Southern money and alcoholism. Just a tragedy." So begins director Gandulf Hennig's newly released...
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Hear This
By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Mike Rowell
You can't really call this season we're in "summer" until the city's major radio stations host an outdoor audio orgy to kick things off in style. So here's Live 105 stepping up...
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Entering Comets on Fire's blazing parallel universes
By Brian J. Barr, Jennifer Maerz and Mike Rowell
The concept behind the supergroup is that it's an impressive music personnel package composed of individual heavyweights. Take Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, for example. Or...
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Music
Country Teasers' agent provocateur allure
By Jennifer Maerz
For sarcastic bastards who wallow in the Country Teasers' muddy outlook on life, there's much to marvel in humanity's ugly underbelly. The Teasers flick flippant lines, hitting...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
For a certain type of rock show, it's most vital that a guitarist bring to the stage the one thing no road tech can tune: a boss facial expression. You know the one I'm talking...
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Hear This
By Jonah Flicker, Jennifer Maerz, Sam Prestianni and Mike Rowell
Northwest No Wave shakes some well-coiffed plumage at tonight's pairing of Troubleman Unlimited labelmates. Portland's Glass Candy does Debbie Harry disco re-envisioned as...
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Music
The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground
By Justin F. Farrar, Garrett Kamps, Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz, Frances Reade, Mike Rowell, Dave Segal and Dan Strachota
A decade after its founding, the annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival is back to blow your senses, featuring a mix of mediums that includes literature, film, and, of...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Artist Matthew Barney 's films are like the flirt whose calls you keep taking even though you share little in common. At least that's how they work on me; I'm always hoping...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Call it attack of the drones, but left-field rock is getting downright hypnotic. Skyscraping walls of shoegazing sound aren't just getting constantly re-erected; they're...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Goddamn this never-ending winter. I'm so ready for spring to break sloppy loose on this city like a teenager after a tequila-shooting contest. In the words of The Flash Express...
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Hear This
By Adam Bregman, Chris Coomey, Michele Laudig and Jennifer Maerz
This past year and a half has felt like a new dawn for extreme vocal histrionics, as indie acts like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Spinto Band showcase frontmen tweaking and...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Although I hitched a ride for the night last week, I couldn't stop fidgeting on the Jamie Lidell bandwagon. Frankly, I just don't get the hype. Sure, the guy displays a...
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Hear This
By Justin F. Farrar, Jennifer Maerz, Tamara Palmer, Sam Prestianni and Kurt B. Reighley
Flash pots? Diamond Nights don't need no stinkin' flash pots. Why waste time on cheap pyrotechnics when your band can dazzle with the just basics: songwriting and...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
There's something about pizza joints that makes the cheap snack shacks regular pit stops for rock types. Austin has its infamous death metal storefront on Sixth Avenue (at...
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Hear This
By Jennifer Maerz, Frances Reade and Tony Ware
Pretty Girls Make Graves takes your basic melodic indie rock template and bathes it in a wash of moody textures. On its latest disc, Élan Vital, the Seattle act releases...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Androids may dream of electric sheep, but Chachi Jones falls into rapid eye movement with fantasies of warm computer melodies and intricate rhythms dancing on the backs of his...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Those cheeky South Londoners Art Brut have one of the best ditties about the perils of drinking and dating in well, ever. At a weeknight show at the Independent last...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Common chatter has it that it's best to leave while the gettin's good. I took off from San Francisco in 2002 because I was broke scraping bucks because making a "living"...
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Music
Stephen McBean makes love, war, and Mountaintops
By Jennifer Maerz
It doesn't take a club full of forest nymphs in potato sacks to understand that the earth-rocking neo-hippie has gained prominence in the modern music world. The loose rhythms...
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