Spend a minute with Mike Watt, man.
I think his eyes are at cross purposes...
Today in Backbeat Online:
• Q&A with Mike Watt.
• Tori Amos tour hits Denver in July.
• Last Night: Ghost Buffalo at 3 Kings Tavern.
• Last Night: Mogwai at the Bluebird.
• Moving Pictures: the Atlantic, Epilogues, 29th Street Disciples and MTHDS.
• MP3 Freeloader: Fill your ears with the crunked glitch hop of Jantsen.
• Bocumast Records showcase announced.
Today in Cafe Society:
• Get happy tonight
Maxwell
BLACKsummers' night
(Columbia)
Eight years have passed since Now, Maxwell's previous album. Fortunately, though, he's lost none of his musical sophistication, and he remains in possession of an impressively wide-ranging skill set -- one that allows him to achieve most, if not all, of his ambitions. Rather than easing into his return recording, he arrives astride "Bad Habits," a complex creation that requires him to shift vocal textures -- from falsetto to full-throated crooning a
If you're lucky (as Jefferson County Public School students are) and have a snow day today, you'll get the chance to watch some movies. But what are the best films for the occasion? We suggest flicks that make you glad to be warm inside instead of outside grappling with the elements -- like, for instance, Jeremiah Johnson, in which Robert Redford gets to deal with all manner of chilly hardships, such as discovering that the memorably named Hatchet Jack has been turned into an Otter Pop, as seen
