Monthly Archives: February 2009 »
Black Lips: 200 Million Thousand
Black Lips 200 Million Thousand Rating: 3.5 Label: Vice Records buy it at insound! You have to figure that making yourself known through incendiary, psychotic live performances is eventually going to backfire. If you’re
Read More »Heartless Bastards: The Mountain
Heartless Bastards The Mountain Rating: 3.0 Label: Fat Possum Records buy it at insound! Fat Possum operates a record label with an almost non-profit modus operandi; they often give the unheard, unappreciated, or unknown
Read More »Concert Review: Los Campesinos!/Titus Andronicus
On a viciously gelid Baltimore evening, as President Bush was giving his long-awaited farewell address on what would have been Martin Luther King’s 80th birthday, a gaggle of rail-thin hoodie-clad white kids crammed into
Read More »Chocolate
Chocolate Dir: Prachya Pinkaew Rating: 4.0 Magnet Releasing 92 Minutes Thailand seems to be asserting itself as the heir to the action cinema; the US has given way to superhero mythology, Segal and Van
Read More »Music on DVD: Hall & Oates: Live at the Troubadour
Whether you’re a true first generation yuppie or just an indie kid with a novelty appreciation for the ’80s, there is something undeniably entertaining about the music of Hall & Oates. Their music has
Read More »Sucking in the ’70s, Part I: My Night with Some Girls
A pressing and often asked (if not particularly relevant) question in music writing is when does a great band start getting crappy? I’m thinking of the Rolling Stones. So exactly when do we start
Read More »Morrissey: Years of Refusal
Morrissey Years of Refusal Rating: 3.5 Label: Lost Highway Being a Morrissey fan is a rough gig. For all that his lyrical and musical obsessions have rarely wavered throughout the course of his career;
Read More »Golden Bear: Everest
Golden Bear Everest EP Rating: 4.0 Label: C-Side buy it at insound! If one of the goals of an EP is to make the listener want to hear more the second it ends, then
Read More »Memorial Day
Memorial Day Dir: Josh Fox Rating: 2.0 Artists Public Domain 91 Minutes I didn’t expect my Saturday night to turn out this way. I was all set for a great movie-watching evening, complete with
Read More »Hollywood Burger Bar: Portland, OR
Hollywood Burger Bar 4211 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97213 (503)288-8965 I’m an old-fashioned kind of guy – I hold doors open for other people, I walk on the appropriate side of the pavement
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