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Bump & Grind: Denver, CO
Bump & Grind 439 E 17th Ave., Denver, CO (303) 861-4841 Imagine walking into a restaurant where Barbie dolls in boxes line the walls – sometimes just their heads bobbing from above a table.
Read More »Concert Review: Eagles of Death Metal/The Duke Spirit
Queens of the Stone Age were so unbelievably good on tour from 2000 to 2003, that when one of the multitude of their side projects or “linked” artists blew through your city, you had
Read More »Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire Dir: Danny Boyle Rating: 4.0 Fox Searchlight 116 Minutes Slumdog Millionaire is a film with impeccable timing. The entire world is in an economic crisis and here comes a film about the
Read More »Fucked Up: The Chemistry of Common Life
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life Rating: 4.5 Label: Matador Records I didn’t know much about Fucked Up before hearing their new album, The Chemistry of Common Life, but I had heard them
Read More »Jóhann Jóhannsson: Fordlandia
Jóhann Jóhannsson Fordlandia Rating: 2.0 Label: 4AD Records Note: This is a blind review. I am writing without any knowledge of the artist (beyond having inadvertently seen his name, which I didn’t recognize and
Read More »Rediscover: Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Rediscover: Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) Dir: Rose Troche 95 Minutes Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. We live in
Read More »Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray The Devil Back To Hell Dir: Gini Reticker Rating: 5.0 Balcony Releasing 72 Minutes Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of the development, struggles, and success of the grassroots
Read More »Interview: Liz Bougatsos and Josh Diamond of Gang Gang Dance
The people in Gang Gang Dance looked to be just getting up when I arrived in their green room for an interview. Vocalist Liz Bougatsos needed to brush her teeth. Guitarist Josh Diamond fixed
Read More »Absentee: Victory Shorts
Absentee Victory Shorts Rating: 4.5 Label: Memphis Industries There is something about those late nights; the time when the bars spill their boozy contents out into the street and the brokenhearted stagger home in
Read More »The Matthew Herbert Big Band: There’s Me and There’s You
The Matthew Herbert Big Band There’s Me and There’s You Rating: 4.0 Label:!K7 Records You have to hear this album in the same way you have to go stare at an Andy Warhol print;
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