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221. Let's Get Killed

     Jack White bros down for an intimate in-store

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: June 14, 2006

     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...

222. Let's Get Killed

     Fallen Angel Gram Parsons gains flight in new documentary

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: June 7, 2006

     "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...

223. Hear This

     It's a big fucking deal all over again

     By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Mike Rowell

     Published: June 7, 2006

     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...

224. Feature

     The Big Bang

     Entering Comets on Fire's blazing parallel universes

     By Brian J. Barr, Jennifer Maerz and Mike Rowell

     Published: May 31, 2006

     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...

225. Music

     Misanthropes United

     Country Teasers' agent provocateur allure

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: May 24, 2006

     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...

226. Let's Get Killed

     Flying Vs and fake cocaine at the U.S. Air Guitar Championships

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: May 24, 2006

     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...

227. Hear This

     Garage punks wryly needle religion; jazz stars skewer Orwellian politics

     By Jonah Flicker, Jennifer Maerz, Sam Prestianni and Mike Rowell

     Published: May 17, 2006

     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...

228. Music

     Indie Dim Sum

     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

     Published: May 10, 2006

     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...

229. Let's Get Killed

     The slippery side of Matthew Barney and Saviours

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: May 10, 2006

     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...

230. Let's Get Killed

     Getting zoned with Psychic Ills

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: May 3, 2006

     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...

231. Let's Get Killed

     Gettin' hooked in a Flash

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: April 26, 2006

     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...

232. Hear This

     Love is blind

     By Adam Bregman, Chris Coomey, Michele Laudig and Jennifer Maerz

     Published: April 26, 2006

     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...

233. Let's Get Killed

     Lukewarm Lidell; Rademacher shows shades of Pavement

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: April 19, 2006

     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...

234. Hear This

     Diamonds in the rock; Ice Cube reigns supreme

     By Justin F. Farrar, Jennifer Maerz, Tamara Palmer, Sam Prestianni and Kurt B. Reighley

     Published: April 19, 2006

     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...

235. Let's Get Killed

     Rolling dough with Genghis Khan

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: April 12, 2006

     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...

236. Hear This

     Let's get Sic; Riding the Gravy Train!!!

     By Jennifer Maerz, Frances Reade and Tony Ware

     Published: April 12, 2006

     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...

237. Let's Get Killed

     Chachi Jones' robotic daydreams

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: April 5, 2006

     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...

238. Let's Get Killed

     Putting the cock in rock and hip-hop

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: March 29, 2006

     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...

239. Let's Get Killed

     Catching Fire with Comets Side Projects

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: March 22, 2006

     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"...

240. Music

     Hairy Hippies Rule

     Stephen McBean makes love, war, and Mountaintops

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: March 8, 2006

     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...