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Rough Mixes
Maynard James Keenan rests his Tool in favor of his "Cuntry Boner"
By Michael Roberts
Published: November 19, 2009
Maynard James Keenan describes a show by Puscifer, arguably the oddest sibling in a family of Keenan-connected bands that includes Tool and A Perfect Circle, as a theatrical...
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Backbeat
Roger Daltrey isn't quite ready for his senior discount
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 15, 2009
I am a pensioner!" Roger Daltrey declares with a laugh. "I'm not just a few years from it. Technically, I am. That's the age we are." Do the math. Circa 1965, Daltrey was the...
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Playlist
Tr3CooH
LyriCooH Treative: The Listenin' Session
Self-releasedBy Michael Roberts
Published: October 8, 2009
The distinction between indelible hip-hop and the dismissible kind is so narrow that artists can straddle the line without realizing it — which pretty much tells the...
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Night & Day
Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 1, 2009
Most movies dealing with terrorism these days treat it as fundamentalist insanity or societal cancer. In contrast, 1962’s Le Combat Dans L'ile turns the subject into, of...
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Hope Sandoval
Thursday, October 1, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 1, 2009
Most artists hope to develop an indelible personal style — but achieving that goal can produce both negatives and positives, as Hope Sandoval (joined on this bill by Dirt...
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The Postmarks
Monday, October 5, hi-dive, 720-570-4500; Tuesday, October 6, b.side lounge, 303-473-9463.
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 1, 2009
Miami has more than its share of nice Jewish girls — but few of them can sing like Tel Aviv-born Tim [that's not a typo] Yehezkely, who consistently delivers as...
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Flick Pick
Le Combat Dans L'ile at Starz
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 1, 2009
Most movies dealing with terrorism these days treat it as fundamentalist insanity or societal cancer. In contrast, 1962's Le Combat Dans L'ile turns the subject into, of all...
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Playlist
Chella Negro
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 24, 2009
These days, folk singers tend to tart up their arrangements under the assumption that the simple combination of voice and guitar puts too many people in mind of Boy Scout...
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Pitbull
Wednesday, September 30, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 24, 2009
Judging by an appearance at Aspen's Belly Up earlier this year, rapper Armando Christian Pérez didn't choose the pseudonym "Pitbull" at random. As seen in a popular...
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Flick Pick
The Escapist, University of Colorado International Film Series
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 24, 2009
Like Memento, The Escapist, screening as part of the University of Colorado's International Film Series, freshens what could have been a genre exercise by fiddling about with...
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Night & Day
Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 17, 2009
The title of 1950’s Rashomon is invoked whenever a filmmaker depicts the same event from multiple, often contradictory points of view. But despite having contributed a...
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Playlist
Andy Ard
What She Did
Self-releasedBy Michael Roberts
Published: September 17, 2009
At the decade's dawn, transplanted Georgians Andy Ard and Rachel Simring established themselves in these parts as an acoustic duo cleverly dubbed Rachel & Andy – but...
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Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
Wednesday, September 23, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 17, 2009
"You try and you try and you try again/But you can't try enough," Stephen Kellogg sings on "Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts," a key track from The Bear, his latest...
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Flick Pick
Rashomon at Starz
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 17, 2009
The title of 1950's Rashomon is invoked whenever a filmmaker depicts the same event from multiple, often contradictory points of view. But despite having contributed a term to...
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Night & Day
Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 10, 2009
Fort Collins’s three-day TriMedia Film Festival showcases a handful of movies featuring recognizable faces, including Trucker, co-starring Michelle Monaghan and Nathan...
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Playlist
Saints
Saints
Self-releasedBy Michael Roberts
Published: September 10, 2009
"It's so simple when you open your mouth," singer-guitarist Rob Gault croons in "Simple," among the gems on this consistently beguiling EP — but that's not necessarily...
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Titus Andronicus
Friday, September 11, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 10, 2009
It's not as if Titus Andronicus (joined on this bill by the So So Glos, Raleigh and Accordion Crimes) had dozens of members. The band's latest album, The Airing of Grievances,...
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Chickenfoot
Friday, September 11, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 10, 2009
Conceptually speaking, Chickenfoot, on tour with Davy Knowles, seems less like a band than an act of revenge — an attempt to outdo the current incarnation of Van Halen by...
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Flick Pick
TriMedia Film Festival in Fort Collins
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 10, 2009
Fort Collins's three-day TriMedia Film Festival showcases a handful of movies featuring recognizable faces, including Trucker, co-starring Michelle Monaghan and Nathan Fillion,...
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Backbeat
When it comes to hip-hop, Busdriver refuses to stick to a designated route
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 3, 2009
Boasting is an essential element of hip-hop; the verbal technique, honed through countless on-stage battles, epitomizes the idea that a rapper can go from nothing to something...
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