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Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players create perfect Kodak moments
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Bookcap
By Irvine Welsh
By Jennifer Maerz
"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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Michael Alan Goldberg, Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling
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...
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Music
Carl Barat settles a score with Dirty Pretty Things
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Eric Davidson, Michael Alan Goldberg and Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Jennifer Maerz and Frances Reade
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Sam Prestianni
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...
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BeatBox
By Brock Keeling and Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Reviewed
(XL/Beggars)
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Jennifer Maerz, Sam Prestianni and Dan Strachota
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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....
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
"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,...
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Hear This
By Michael Alan Goldberg, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Hiya Swanhuyser
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...
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