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A Tribute to Full Toilet
With a mere 7-inch to his name, it’s surely too early in recent Sub Pop signee Don Sheets’…
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Screaming Females
This New Jersey punk trio, fronted by the yowling vocalist Marissa Paternoster, are touring in support of their…
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Paula Becker & Alan J. Stein
The Space Needle, Elvis, the Monorail, the Bubbleator at the Food Circus … there was even a nightclub…
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Unlike the ill-advised Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the 1981 Raiders is a movie freed from the responsibility…
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Jeff Mangum
We may never know what caused Jeff Mangum to resurface in the public eye after years and years…
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Metal Monday
Metal Monday is the 2 Bit Saloon’s weekly celebration of black leather, cheep beer, and tunes that kill.…
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Blaine Harden
Even as Myanmar/Burma shows sign of cracking, North Korea’s three-generation dictatorship remains solid and inscrutable to journalists like…
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Li Chen
In the Taiwanese sculptor’s Eternity and Commoner, we get to see the crumbly side of his work—pieces put…
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Duck Soup
In perhaps the most lighthearted war movie ever made, 1933’s Duck Soup, Groucho Marx plays the war-crazed but…
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Susie J. Lee
Ordinarily, when an artist arranges for a series of portraits and one of the models dies, they might…
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Totimoshi
Veteran Bay Area metal band hasn’t released an album since 2008 but has a reputation for brutally heavy…
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Foxy Shazam
Cincinnati funk rockers Foxy Shazam have clear retro influences in bands like Queen and Meatloaf, but they take…
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Hell And Back Again
Director Danfung Dennis’ Hell And Back Again seeks to document the personal experience of war with extreme and…
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Mariners vs. Oakland A’s
Typically, hope springs eternal at a baseball team’s home opener. Last season is a distant memory, the wins…
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Bear in Heaven
Last winter the Brooklyn electro-psych-rock trio discovered the most annoying way possible to preview their new record—stretching the…
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Uprising
At first glance, it appears that Rick Araluce has bolted together a tangle of rusty old pipes of…
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North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock’s wonderful 1959 chase movie is one of his absolute best, an espionage romp for the ages.…
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Champagne Champagne
Champagne Champagne’s new EP Private Party opens with a tremolo guitar shimmer and a live band backbeat before…
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Laura
This new print of Otto Preminger’s 1944 Laura likely means Fox is preparing a fresh addition to its…
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First Aid Kit
The harmonizing Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg first garnered attention for their YouTube cover of Fleet Foxes’…