Arts & Culture
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 11/25 Photography: Emptied Room In a gallery that’s about to close after a 22-year run, the images…
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Municipal Waste
Of all the bands currently riding the New Wave of Thrash Revival Warbringer, Bonded By Blood, Evile,…
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Russian Circles
A bit like fellow Chicagoans Pelican, the instrumental trio Russian Circles simultaneously draws from two traditions: The post-rock…
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The Hidden Cameras
Playing a sort of loping, ecstatic folk-pop, Torontos Hidden Cameras have always resisted firm contours. Theyre unpredictable as…
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Built to Spill
Like all great bands, you know Built to Spill within seconds of hearing them. The great Idaho concern…
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The Swell Season
The Swell Season is the stirring, earnestly emotional duo forged by Irish rocker Glen Hansard and Czech pianist…
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A Hard Day’s Night
With the Fab Four already in control of English airwaves in 1964, A Hard Day’s Night today feels…
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Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini needs no introduction. Yet the star of Blue Velvet and daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto…
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Julian Casablancas
Part of Julian Casablancas reputation as the Strokes frontman has always been his bratty nonchalance its something…
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Thunderheist
Happy accidents have been the origins of some of the worlds greatest recipes, discoveries and a majority of…
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You know your little label is doing okay for itself when you
You know your little label is doing okay for itself when you need two nights to showcase all…
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Dan Grayber
Powered by gravity, counterweights, and springs, the tabletop sculptures of San Francisco artist Dan Grayber cling to concrete…
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Lovvers
Kept primitive and aggressively lo-fi, songs often hover around the two-minute mark on Lovvers new album OCD Go…
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The Books
The Books have kept active in the past four years touring and releasing a DVD, as well…
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Michael Van Horn
In a gallery that’s about to close after a 22-year run, the images by local photographer Michael Van…
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Nonsequitur
Parallels between the musical style of composer John Luther Adams and the landscape surrounding himAlaska, where hes lived…
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Tim Egan
Having been through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest many times, having swung a Pulaski doing trail maintenance work…
Music
The Short List: The Weeks Recommended Shows
The Fiery Furnaces ~ Wednesday, November 18 The Fiery Furnaces can’t seem to decide what kind of band…
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Those Darlins
Mainstream country music stars reality-show blondes with streaky highlights and shrieky voices, over-emoting through ballads so leaden and…
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The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir’s 1939 masterpiece follows the amorous exploits of a group of aristocrats invited to a hunting party…