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Off Limits
Yes, there's a miniature version of one of Denver's most controversial sculptures, but it's not Denver International Airport's fearsome blue "Mustang" — the subject of a...
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Calhoun
By Patricia Calhoun
Standing outside the EZE Mop building on an overcast Saturday, watching the cars roll past on 17th Avenue, Stephanie Shearer tries to figure out where her story really...
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Letters
"Ahead of the Needle," Melanie Asmar, April 9
Missing the Point
Yeah, and we should also teach people how to drive drunk. People are going to do it anyway, regardless if...
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Ask A Mexican
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can't have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against culture....
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Backbeat
By Cory Casciato
Iuengliss. The name is damn near impossible to pronounce. Tom Metz, the up-and-coming electronic wunderkind who performs under the moniker, knows his handle causes fits. So...
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Rough Mixes
By Dave Herrera
Over the past few years, the members of Immortal Dominion have undoubtedly experienced a gamut of emotions, from paralyzing grief spurred by a harrowing personal tragedy...
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Rough Mixes
By Dave Herrera
If you heard Forth Yeer Freshman's 2001 debut, Drunkinomicon, and then listened to Regulators, the band's new album, and thought you were hearing two completely different...
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Bar Back
By Jon Solomon
I've been into Western shirts for a few years and wear one pretty much every day of the week — usually solid black or some sort of plaid, untucked, with snaps. But that's...
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Playlist
Live Via Satellite From Davenport, Iowa Brodeo
By Tom Murphy
From the guy who did Kiss covers at a Devo convention a few years ago comes this latest offering of absurdist humor blended with bare-bones synth-pop. Putatively filmed live...
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Playlist
Spider Self-released
By Jon Solomon
For two decades, Neil Haverstick has explored microtonal guitar, using a nineteen-tone system of tuning rather than the standard twelve-tone one. Having performed previously...
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Playlist
Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden Self-released
By Cory Casciato
Listening to the mad Gypsy sounds of Taarka's Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden is like a temporary escape from the mundane modern world into an exotic caravan traveling a...
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Playlist
Trashed Out Paradise Filthy Beast Records
By Michael Roberts
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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Now Hear This
Thursday, April 16, Beta, 303-383-1909.
By Amber Taufen
You can't talk about house music without bringing up Chicago, and you'd be remiss to discuss Chicago house without dropping Felix da Housecat's name. A central figure in...
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Now Hear This
Saturday, April 18, Walnut Room, 303-293-1700.
By Michael Roberts
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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Now Hear This
Tuesday, April 21, Bluebird Theater, 303-377-1666.
By Jon Solomon
The dudes in the Black Lips get naked on stage sometimes. But a few months ago, some folks in India weren't too stoked when guitarist Cole Alexander stripped and jumped into...
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Now Hear This
Wednesday, April 22, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
By Tom Murphy
As a core member of the Anticon collective, Sole is arguably one of the most influential hip-hop artists alive today. Anticon artists aren't generally on Top 40 radio. Instead,...
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Now Hear This
Wednesday, April 22, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.
By A.H. Goldstein
The Kills haven't let artistic progression compromise their minimalism. For nearly ten years, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have offered a defiant, stripped-down brand of...
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Critic's Choice
By Tom Murphy
Evan and Paige O'Meara have been at the punk-rock thing with the Eight Bucks Experiment since the mid-'90s. To say this project has changed its sound over the years is a bit of...
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Scratching the Surface
By Cory Casciato
The resumé of Thomas Fehlmann is truly awesome. It stretches all the way back to the late '70s, when he began experimenting with synthesizers in the company of people...
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Cafe
By Jason Sheehan
See more photos of Tocabe at westword.com/slideshow.
Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and...
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