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Backbeat
Meet the Rouge, one of Denver's brightest new bands
By Andy Thomas
Published: May 28, 2009
Some scars are forever, some fade with time. For the members of the Rouge, who all have matching cigarette-burn scars on their arms, it doesn't matter how long the mark stays,...
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Rough Mixes
Tim Pourbaix takes a step back from his music to move forward in life
By Eryc Eyl
Published: May 28, 2009
At the end of this month, Tim Pourbaix will leave his home town behind for New York — specifically, the hipster's promised land of Williamsburg. Before he says goodbye,...
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Rough Mixes
Tracyanne Campbell offers insight into the bittersweet world of Camera Obscura
By Kyle Smith
Published: May 28, 2009
On its recently released fourth album, My Maudlin Career, Scotland's Camera Obscura continues to swathe Tracyanne Campbell's melancholy yet droll lyrics in the warm glow of...
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Bar Back
It hurts so good at the Trailside Saloon
By Jon Solomon
Published: May 28, 2009
There's a scene in the Blues Brothers where Jake, Elwood and the rest of the band are playing "Stand by Your Man" at Bob's Country Bunker. The camera pans across a bunch of...
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Playlist
Various Artists
Rocky Mountain Low: The Colorado Musical Underground of the Late 1970s
Hyperpycnal ProductionsBy Michael Roberts
Published: May 28, 2009
All backward-gazing compilations are exercises in nostalgia to some degree — but the best of the breed eschew sentimentality in favor of a more clear-eyed brand of...
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Playlist
Adam Adam
Those Clouds Look Like Bats
Black MountainBy Tom Murphy
Published: May 28, 2009
It doesn't seem possible that anyone could put a new spin on the Americana thing, but with this latest offering from Adam Adam, that notion can be put to rest. Part folk, part...
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Playlist
The Jim Jims
Bottom of the City
Fly Apart RecordsBy Cory Casciato
Published: May 28, 2009
Maybe it's bitterness, or creeping cynicism, or simply the fact that every new thing I hear has to measure up to the ever-larger pile of stuff I already know and love, but the...
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Playlist
Bobby Walker
Git It
Lynx RecordsBy Jon Solomon
Published: May 28, 2009
Bobby Walker has been playing professionally for close to four decades, and Git It feels like a document of his time touring around the States, Japan and Germany. In his...
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St. Vincent
Tuesday, June 2, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.
By Adam Perry
Published: May 28, 2009
One of the most memorable turns of phrase from the past few years of original rock music has to be "Jesus saves, I spend," from St. Vincent's 2007 debut full-length Marry Me....
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Leonard Cohen
Tuesday, June 2, Red Rocks, 303-830-8497.
By Tom Murphy
Published: May 28, 2009
Since the 1967 release of Songs of Leonard Cohen, this widely admired songwriter has become synonymous with the concept of cool like few others since Miles Davis. More a...
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Neko Case
Friday, May 29, Chautauqua Auditorium, 303-440-7666.
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 28, 2009
The studio work by rootsy singer-songwriters who are lucky enough to have long recording careers tends to grow more urbane as time goes on. That's certainly true of Middle...
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Murs
Friday, May 29, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 28, 2009
The gulf between mainstream rap and indie hip-hop can be breached with ease. Indeed, there are plenty of tracks on Murs' latest recording, 2008's Murs For President, that would...
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Critic's Choice
Fire Drills at Bender's Tavern
By Tom Murphy
Published: May 28, 2009
In an era when we've all been hit over the head once too often with pop punk, a band like the Fire Drills (due at Bender's Tavern on Saturday, May 30) can superficially sound...
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Scratching the Surface
Kyau & Albert at Beta
By Cory Casciato
Published: May 28, 2009
The most compelling thing about trance duo Kyau & Albert is the bizarre vibe of their podcast voiceovers: it's very Dieter-from-Sprockets meets Hans & Franz, and it...
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Cafe
Is China Jade the best Chinese restaurant in Denver? Close enough.
By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 28, 2009
Shrimp with gralic sauce?" "I love shrimp with gralic sauce. Get some of that." "Sour taste cabbage? Or Triple Delight? What do you suppose that is?" she asked, and smiled. I...
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Bite Me
Abandoning Primebar for the Squeaky Bean
By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 28, 2009
If you've been reading the Cafe Society blog (and you have been reading the blog, haven't you?), you already know that Primebar — the highly anticipated, 400-seat...
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Second Helping
Chopsticks China Bistro is still among the best
By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 28, 2009
In this week's Cafe review, I declared China Jade possibly the best Chinese restaurant in the city. And when I told a few of my fellow gastronauts what I was about to do,...
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Film Feature
Up
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 28, 2009
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced...
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Flick Pick
Three Monkeys at Starz
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 smash...
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Artbeat
American Muscle revs up at Pirate
By Michael Paglia
Published: May 28, 2009
In the 1960s, the two biggest contemporary art movements, pop art and minimalism, were ideological opposites — well, except in certain works from Andy Warhol's "Elvis"...
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