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Night & Day
By Amber Taufen
What do modern-day hip-hop freestyle battles have in common with Chaucers Canterbury Tales? Nothing, most people might say, but Baba Brinkman isnt most...
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Night & Day
By Elena Brown
Its a wonderful life here in Colorado: With a vibrant urban scene and spectacular nature all around us, weve got the best of both worlds. This Saturday, why not...
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Ask A Mexican
By Gustavo Arellano
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
By Patricia Calhoun and Lisa Rab
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
By Jessica Centers
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
By Dave Herrera
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
"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
By Eryc Eyl
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
By Michael Roberts
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
By Kyle Smith
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
By Tom Murphy
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
By Jon Solomon
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
Friday, November 7, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
By Tom Murphy
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
Saturday, November 8, Buell Theatre, 303-830-4897.
By Michael Roberts
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
Sunday, November 9, Marquis Theater, 303-292-0805.
By Michael Roberts
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
Wednesday, November 12, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
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
By Tom Murphy
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
By Cory Casciato
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
By Jason Sheehan
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
By Jason Sheehan
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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