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Night & Day
Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 30, 2009
Among the most pleasurable entries in director Orson Welles’s filmography are those projects that find him trying to wedge his eccentricities into a standard genre...
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Spring Creek
Way Up on a Mountain
Rebel RecordsBy Michael Roberts
Published: April 30, 2009
This Lyons-based quartet's latest album, which will be celebrated during a May 9 gig at the Boulder Theater (followed by appearances at the Gold Hill Inn and Swallow Hill on...
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Crystal Antlers
Friday, May 1, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 30, 2009
The only thing delicate about the band called Crystal Antlers is its name — and then only just. The music on Tentacles, the first full-length by these Long Beach,...
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Vivian Girls
Sunday, May 3, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 30, 2009
The goal of this youthful Brooklyn trio, appearing alongside the Pseudo Dates and Eyes and Ears, probably wasn't to push the buttons of most male rock critics — but...
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The Lady From Shanghai
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 30, 2009
Among the most pleasurable entries in director Orson Welles's filmography are those projects that find him trying to wedge his eccentricities into a standard genre template and...
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Night & Day
Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 23, 2009
The sophistication and cynicism of the typical film-goer these days means that cinematic simplicity is damnably hard to pull off — but Iranian director Majid Majidi...
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Dan Allen
Here
Self-releasedBy Michael Roberts
Published: April 23, 2009
The latest from electrified proto-folkie Dan Allen is a throwback to local recordings that were commonplace during the bad old days, before technology improved to the degree...
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The Gaslight Anthem
Friday, April 24, Gothic Theatre, 877-598-6659.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 23, 2009
Bruce Springsteen has influenced many artists over the years, and not always in a positive way: We have him to blame for the all-too-often egregious genre known as "heartland...
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The Song of Sparrows at Starz
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 23, 2009
The sophistication and cynicism of the typical film-goer these days means that cinematic simplicity is damnably hard to pull off — but Iranian director Majid Majidi...
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Independence Day
Musicians band together to support record stores.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 16, 2009
Not that long ago, mom-and-pop record stores were common – but no more. Today only the strongest continue to survive, and many of them are struggling due to a consumer...
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Synthetic Elements
Trashed Out Paradise
Filthy Beast RecordsBy Michael Roberts
Published: April 16, 2009
The April 2007 review of Standing Still, a previous release by these ska-punkers, declared, "There's nothing new in the band's sound, but the players channel old styles so well...
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Cameron McGill & What Army
Saturday, April 18, Walnut Room, 303-293-1700.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 16, 2009
McGill's "autobiography" claims that he was born in 1877 and lived in seclusion in Illinois until his death in 2056 — a joke that, intentionally or not, gets to the heart...
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Scandinavian Film Festival at Starz FilmCenter
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 16, 2009
The inaugural Scandinavian Film Festival is a modest affair in terms of numbers — just four films, only one of which is feature length. But it makes up in freshness what...
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Night & Day
Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 9, 2009
Even the finest documentarians need great material — and filmmaker Kevin Rafferty’s got plenty of it in Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, which begins a week-long run on...
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Rough Mixes
Black Kids' Reggie Youngblood is a product of his contradictions
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 9, 2009
Among the first original songs penned by Black Kids frontman Reggie Youngblood were birthday tributes meant to impress girls who'd gotten a rise out of him, so to speak —...
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Council of Word
CO2: A Heavy Gas
Roundtable RecordsBy Michael Roberts
Published: April 9, 2009
Danny One Shoe and Deep Rawk Dave, this Council's members, come by their old-school sound honestly. They've been making Mile High hip-hop since 1989, and instead of mimicking...
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Lily Allen
Thursday, April 9, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 9, 2009
From the moment Lily Allen surfaced on the pop radar, she seemed destined to be a short-lived phenomenon. The daughter of a comedian who came to fame with a big assist from...
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Mastodon
Tuesday, April 14, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 9, 2009
It'll probably take Mastodon fans a while to warm up to Crack the Skye. The band's latest trades some of the brutal crunch associated with albums such as 2004's Leviathan in...
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The members of Los Campesinos! know how lucky they are
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 2, 2009
The music scene is clogged with performers desperately seeking stardom. So does Los Campesinos! guitarist/songwriter Tom Campesinos! see any irony in the quick rise of his...
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Bayside
Saturday, April 4, Gothic Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 2, 2009
The latest fave rave among the suburban high school set is Punk Goes Pop, Volume 2, a compilation in which Warped Tour combos take on some of the slickest chart hits of recent...
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