Bob Newman.As a former Marine gunnery sergeant, KOA radio host Bob Newman comes by his combativeness naturally. When politically liberal Colorado Media Matters, staffed by some of his most persistent critics, collapsed in March, Gunny Bob gleefully kicked the organization when it was down (and out) via a couple of for-publication e-mails that also fired shots at MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who'd named Newman the "Worst Person in the World" back in August 2007.
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Doug Beam​Bat For Lashes, Other Lives
Bluebird Theater
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Better Than: See bands with technical ability but no imagination.
Openers Other Lives started out with a lush, orchestral,
folk-inflected pop song that reminded me a bit of Arab Strap, without
the bile and the Scottish accents. It would have been easy to write
Other Lives off as yet another adherent to the Radiohead school of
atmospheric music but something about the band's songs went beyond
something so obvious.
