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61. Night & Day

    Flick Pick

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Eddie Adams, the late photographer at the center of An Unlikely Weapon, which opens July 2, was a romantic of an especially cantankerous sort. He’s most famous for a...

62. Playlist

    Death Hickey Blues

    Raleigh St.
    Self-released

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Although the music on this four-song EP doesn't skimp on commercial elements, it's actually quite an odd hybrid. For the most part, lead singer Nasir Malik's vocals sound as if...

63. Now Hear This

    LA Riots

    Thursday, July 2, The Church, 303-832-8628.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Daniel LeDisko and Jo'B, the twosome currently causing LA Riots, are the remixers of the moment — definitely a short-term position given the trendiness of the...

64. Now Hear This

    Michael Dean Damron

    Saturday, July 4, 3 Kings Tavern, 303-777-7352.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 2, 2009

    This time last year, Michael Dean Damron, former frontman for I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House, was planning a trip to Denver with his current combo, Thee Loyal...

65. Flick Pick

    An Unlikely Weapon

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Eddie Adams, the late photographer at the center of An Unlikely Weapon, which opens July 2, was a romantic of an especially cantankerous sort. He's most famous for a...

66. Night & Day

    Flick Pick

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Revanche defied both the odds and the standard formula in earning Austria a richly deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Director Götz Spielmann’s latest...

67. Playlist

    Meese

    Broadcast
    Atlantic

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Patrick Meese's friendship with Isaac Slade was handy from a getting-noticed standpoint. But now that Meese's namesake band is receiving the major-label-release treatment,...

68. Now Hear This

    Crocodiles

    Friday, June 26, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 25, 2009

    The Fat Possum Records aesthetic, whether it pertains to rock groups like the Black Keys or blues artists à la R.L. Burnside, champions primitivism over polish and...

69. Now Hear This

    Phoenix

    Thursday, June 25, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Phoenix, appearing with Amazing Baby, is generating a buzz nearly a decade in the making. The electro-tinged French group, whose lineage has links to both Air and Daft Punk,...

70. Flick Pick

    Revanche at Starz

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Revanche defied both the odds and the standard formula in earning Austria a richly deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Director Götz Spielmann's latest deals...

71. Playlist

    Eric Sanders

    It Ain't All About You
    Downtowner Media

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 18, 2009

    "They say it gets better with time," Eric Sanders sings on "They Say All Kinds of Things," It Ain't All About You's fourth cut — and in this case, whoever the hell "they"...

72. Now Hear This

    Hey Monday

    Saturday, June 20, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 18, 2009

    As far as we know, a starmaker/Svengali didn't have anything to do with the formation of Hey Monday, currently touring with Stereo Skyline, the Bigger Lights, the Friday Night...

73. Now Hear This

    Bachelorette

    Tuesday, June 23, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Unlike the series of interchangeable reality-show heroines of the same name, this particular Bachelorette — New Zealander Annabell Alpers — isn't constantly...

74. Flick Pick

    Throw Down Your Heart at Starz

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 18, 2009

    "I just want to blend in," claims banjoist Béla Fleck early in Throw Down Your Heart, a documentary about his musical journey to Africa (where the banjo originated). A...

75. Night & Day

    Flick Pick

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Like Hancock, the Will Smith flick from last year, 2007’s Big Man Japan tweaks the superhero myth by focusing on a shaggy, thoroughly unconventional guardian of society...

76. Backbeat

    For Built to Spill's Doug Martsch, music is a different kind of hoop dream

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 11, 2009

    At first blush, professional men's basketballers and guys in rock bands don't have a lot in common. Those who fall into the first category are most often enormous, physically...

77. Night & Day

    Flick Pick

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 4, 2009

    Standards of Ethical Conduct, premiering on Saturday, June 6, is the sort of local production worth rooting for, despite its many imperfections. Written and directed by Roman...

78. Now Hear This

    Etta James and The Roots Band

    Saturday, June 6, Boulder Theater, 303-786-7030.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 4, 2009

    Last year's Cadillac Records didn't catch on with cinema lovers as did recent biopics of Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, etc., in part because of its split focus. Viewers got a mere...

79. Flick Pick

    Standards of Ethical Conduct at the Bug Theatre

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 4, 2009

    Standards of Ethical Conduct, premiering on Saturday, June 6, is the sort of local production worth rooting for, despite its many imperfections. Written and directed by Roman...

80. Night & Day

    Flick Pick

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the auteur behind Three Monkeys, didn’t win the best-director bauble at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his hyperkinetic visuals and mastery of the...