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21. Rough Mixes

    These Latinas may rock, but Girl In a Coma isn't making Latin rock

    By Phil Freeman

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Though the band seemed to rocket out of nowhere with its 2007 debut, Both Before I'm Gone, San Antonio trio Girl in a Coma has been plugging away for nine years — since...

22. Rough Mixes

    Remembering the King of Pop

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Love him or hate him, I think we can all agree that Michael Jackson was an icon. Although in recent years, his vast musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by the...

23. Bar Back

    Hot rods and hard rock at the Wide Open Saloon

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: July 2, 2009

    I've been fascinated by bikers since I first saw Gimme Shelter, which documents what happened when the Rolling Stones supposedly asked the Hells Angels to act as security for a...

24. 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...

25. Playlist

    Born in Winter

    Paper and Roses
    Self-released

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Upon first listen to Paper and Roses, Born in Winter's latest, inevitable comparisons to Evanescence and Annette Olzon-era Nightwish are bound to crop up, particularly since...

26. Playlist

    White Leather

    White Leather
    Self-released

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Is White Leather for you? Find out by answering "true" or "false" to the following three statements: 1) My record collection is full of '90s pop punk and '80s glam metal, and I...

27. Playlist

    Take the Mickey

    They Clean Up Nice EP
    Self-released

    By Jason Heller

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Scrappy, dark, comedic synth-punk isn't exactly a formula for surefire success. And on They Clean Up Nice, Take the Mickey isn't able to pull those elements into something...

28. 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...

29. 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...

30. Now Hear This

    War Tapes

    Sunday, July 5, Gothic Theatre, Englewood, 303-788-0984.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Los Angeles's War Tapes evokes the most insidiously catchy synth-pop bands of the '80s mixed with the darkness of that era's death rock. Imagine Sisters of Mercy with a dynamic...

31. Now Hear This

    Other Girls

    Tuesday, July 7, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: July 2, 2009

    With quirky pop hooks and song dynamics that are just shy of anthemic, Cleveland's Other Girls writes songs with a surprising level of sophistication and polish while...

32. Now Hear This

    Son Volt

    Wednesday, July 8, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Jay Farrar has never been all that interested in experimentation. Hell, his desire to plow ahead, nose to the grindstone, was one of the contributing factors to the dissolution...

33. Critic's Choice

    Savage Henry at the Gothic

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Taking its name from a heroin dealer in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Savage Henry has paid its dues for the past several years, juggling regular gigs and a tour schedule...

34. Scratching the Surface

    Claude VonStroke at Beta

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Ah, Claude VonStroke. The name screams Eurodouche, and for good reason: It's the nom de beats of Barclay Crenshaw, who came up with it while making up ridiculous European DJ...

35. Cafe

    Sketch has a simple premise that leaves no room for mistakes

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: July 2, 2009

    Almost everyone at Sketch Food and Wine knows me. The above-the-line guys for certain, some of the bartenders. I have acted well and poorly in their establishment, used it for...

36. Bite Me

    Jason Sheehan is ready to face his critics

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: July 2, 2009

    I did my first few turns through Sketch while working as an anonymous restaurant critic. Not anonymous to Jesse Morreale or Sean Yontz, necessarily. Not to Charlie Master who...

37. Second Helping

    D Bar Desserts is too good to save for dessert

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: July 2, 2009

    On the one hand, you have Sketch, which is trying to make a restaurant out of nothing more than a salumi bar and the best intentions. On the other, you have D Bar —...

38. Drink of the Week

    Ginger Gimlet at LoHi SteakBar

    By Nancy Levine

    Published: July 2, 2009

    The minute LoHi SteakBar opened its doors in the transformed North Star Brewery space last week, I was there to try a few of the cocktails that bar manager Dan Guaydacan has...

39. 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...

40. Film Feature

    Public Enemies

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 2, 2009

    They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying the...