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Backbeat
By Andy Thomas
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
By Eryc Eyl
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
By Kyle Smith
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
By Jon Solomon
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
Rocky Mountain Low: The Colorado Musical Underground of the Late 1970s Hyperpycnal Productions
By Michael Roberts
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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Those Clouds Look Like Bats Black Mountain
By Tom Murphy
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
Bottom of the City Fly Apart Records
By Cory Casciato
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
Git It Lynx Records
By Jon Solomon
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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Now Hear This
Tuesday, June 2, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.
By Adam Perry
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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Now Hear This
Tuesday, June 2, Red Rocks, 303-830-8497.
By Tom Murphy
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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Now Hear This
Friday, May 29, Chautauqua Auditorium, 303-440-7666.
By Michael Roberts
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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Now Hear This
Friday, May 29, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
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
By Tom Murphy
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
By Cory Casciato
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
By Jason Sheehan
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
By Jason Sheehan
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
By Jason Sheehan
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
By Robert Wilonsky
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
By Michael Roberts
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
By Michael Paglia
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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