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Night & Day
And You Don’t Stop
By Amber Taufen
Published: November 6, 2008
What do modern-day hip-hop freestyle battles have in common with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales? “Nothing,” most people might say, but Baba Brinkman isn’t most...
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Night & Day
Feeling Sheepish
By Elena Brown
Published: November 6, 2008
It’s a wonderful life here in Colorado: With a vibrant urban scene and spectacular nature all around us, we’ve got the best of both worlds. This Saturday, why not...
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Ask A Mexican
News from the frozen Northland
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: November 6, 2008
Dear Mexican: In your October 23 column, I read that Mexicans enjoy Clamato the way Canadians do. The True North Strong and Free has a favored drink (the Caesar) made with...
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Off Limits
War is heck in the battleground state of Colorado
By Patricia Calhoun and Lisa Rab
Published: November 6, 2008
I woke up early in Colorado, still a battleground state, according to the November 4 Wall Street Journal. I prepared myself for battle by studying the election items that had...
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Follow That Story
Cool School
By Jessica Centers
Published: November 6, 2008
When high school principal Michael Johnston settled in, like 33 million other Americans, to watch Barack Obama's thirty-minute prime-time infomercial on October 26, he had no...
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Off Limits
Backyard Politics
By Dave Herrera
Published: November 6, 2008
We first noticed the change in the mammoth LED billboard on I-25 near 50th Avenue during an afternoon rush hour in late October. The marquee, which normally just lists the time...
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Letters
From the week of November 6, 2008
Published: November 6, 2008
"Hotel Martino," Jared Jacang Maher, October 30 No-Tell Hotel Well, there's a chill in the air, which means its time for the annual Tom Martino-bashing at Westword. I...
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Backbeat
Jeffrey Stevens helps Joe Sampson bring his songs to life
By Eryc Eyl
Published: November 6, 2008
There are so many albums I buy where people try to put in electronic sounds," says Jeffrey Stevens, "and it sounds like a cheap sticker on a wooden desk." It might not sound...
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Rough Mixes
Stephen Malkmus reviews his solo albums — and doesn't always give himself two thumbs up
By Michael Roberts
Published: November 6, 2008
Although Stephen Malkmus has been in the public eye for nearly two decades, he still doesn't quite have the whole self-promotion thing down. Ask his opinion of the albums he's...
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Rough Mixes
Meet Marnie Stern, the reluctant virtuoso
By Kyle Smith
Published: November 6, 2008
Remember the term "hyperprog"? Whatever it meant in times past, it describes guitarist Marnie Stern's music perfectly. On her new album, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It...
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Rough Mixes
Overcasters favor exhilarating atmospheres over utter starkness
By Tom Murphy
Published: November 6, 2008
With incandescent whorls of melodic sound and synapse-tingling dynamics, Overcasters are reinventing a classic sound pioneered by bands in the Paisley Underground and the...
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Bar Back
The Loft leaves few traces of its coffeehouse origins
By Jon Solomon
Published: November 6, 2008
I was making the rounds and hit The Loft (821 22nd Street) on the last Saturday in October, the last night of the club's Rocktober series, which had featured two local bands...
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Now Hear This
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Friday, November 7, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
By Tom Murphy
Published: November 6, 2008
Emerging from the remnants of experimental punk outfit Shit Spangled Banner, Sunburned Hand of the Man shambled into existence in 1997. A lot of bands refuse to be lumped into...
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Now Hear This
k.d. lang
Saturday, November 8, Buell Theatre, 303-830-4897.
By Michael Roberts
Published: November 6, 2008
The lowercased lang — the subject of an extended Q&A accessible at blogs.westword.com/backbeat — arrived on the '80s music scene as a glorious freak: a short-maned...
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Now Hear This
Jeffree Star
Sunday, November 9, Marquis Theater, 303-292-0805.
By Michael Roberts
Published: November 6, 2008
Jeffrey Steininger, aka Jeffree Star, who's touring with Brokencyde, Teen Hearts and Ultraviolet Sound, wouldn't have done well during the early '90s, when performers were...
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Now Hear This
The Gaslight Anthem
Wednesday, November 12, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: November 6, 2008
It would be impossible for a band to telegraph its intentions more clearly than the Gaslight Anthem did by naming its new album The '59 Sound. On paper, anthemic...
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Critic's Choice
Gata Negra at the Lion's Lair
By Tom Murphy
Published: November 6, 2008
Many bands mining classic rock for inspiration these days sound like sonic fetishists or kitschy tongue-in-cheekers. There's plenty of blues in Gata Negra's rock, but to...
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Scratching the Surface
James Zabiela at Beta
By Cory Casciato
Published: November 6, 2008
One of the first things mentioned in James Zabiela's official bio is his love of all things sci-fi, and boy, does it ever show in his music. Robotic gurgles, deliciously...
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Cafe
Pork lovers will go hog wild for the Berkshire
By Jason Sheehan
Published: November 6, 2008
Play a game with me. I promise it won't take long. Say you're dying. Say, for comfort's sake, that all the crap you learned in Sunday school or Hebrew school or wherever is...
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Bite Me
The Berkshire's flight of bacon fancy
By Jason Sheehan
Published: November 6, 2008
After finishing my review of The Berkshire, I called owner Andy Ganick to find out what freaky pig savant was running his kitchen. Turns out the guy with the porky jones is...
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