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Shrapnel
Foreign Roots
Emi-great!
By Cole Haddon
Published: November 10, 2005
The Greencards are probably one of the best examples of American bluegrass out there right now, which is why it's so gosh-darned peculiar that the trio consists of two...
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Film
Aboard Game
Sweeping you into an alternate reality
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: November 10, 2005
Pay attention, Disney: This is how you do a family film right. Neither pandering nor dull, Zathura plays exactly like a no-limits replica of the kind of space adventure that...
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Urban Experience
Flute Plan
Jethro Tull is still flying high
By Niki D'Andrea, Clay McNear, Julie Peterson and Rebecca Zumoff
Published: November 10, 2005
MON 11/14When Jethro Tull won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, beating out contenders like AC/DC and Metallica, a lot of people raised their...
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Shrapnel
Critical Fatwa
Want something to hate? Try their singing
By The Ayatollah of Rock
Published: November 10, 2005
We are arbiters of music, not ideals. So all hail Crass, who made great music in spite of their goofball politics. From the silly socialism of Rage Against the Machine to the...
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Film
Bum Rap
50 Cent wants to be an actor . . . but he's not
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: November 10, 2005
About halfway through Get Rich or Die Tryin', the new movie starring rapper 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) and loosely based on his life, 50's character Marcus is in prison,...
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See/Be Seen
Slam Bang
Video artists of resistance
By Niki D'Andrea, Wynter Holden, Clay McNear and Douglas Towne
Published: November 10, 2005
WED 11/16If you're looking for an alternative to Hollywood's seasonal onslaught of high-concept blockbusters, you'll find it at "Video Slam!" -- a digital offshoot of the...
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Home Grown
Chica
Chica
(Sought After Entertainment, LLC)By Serene Dominic
Published: November 10, 2005
When taking stock of all the things we don't have in Arizona (seasons; a caring, compassionate sheriff; viable New York pizza; etc.), you can finally scratch off the following...
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Sports/Outdoors
Lap Dawgs
Speed thrills at PIR
By Steve Jansen, Clay McNear and Craig Wallach
Published: November 10, 2005
11/10-11/13Conventional wisdom holds that in sports, the four "majors" consist of football, baseball, basketball, and hockey, though hockey now toils on the Outdoor Life...
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Home Grown
The Black Moods
Laurel Canyon
By Serene Dominic
Published: November 10, 2005
The Black Moods deliver powerful music with a positive message, but only if you like your cock rock mixed with kick-rock. On the band's mini-album Laurel Canyon, there's a...
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Performance
Devil in a White Dress
Zombi takes the wedding cake
By Niki D'Andrea, Benjamin Leatherman and Clay McNear
Published: November 10, 2005
THU 11/10To hell with Niagara Falls, we've got an even better location lined up for our impending nuptials: Hades. Sure, the guests might have a devil of a time trying to find...
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Home Grown
Daughters of Fission
Abandonatomy
By Serene Dominic
Published: November 10, 2005
Maybe I'm shallow, but I'm still waiting for a band called Daughters of Fission that's four women with Coke-bottle eyeglasses and hair up in hideous buns who magically...
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Home Grown
Page the Village Idiot
. . . it's no fun being one dimensional
By Serene Dominic
Published: November 10, 2005
Tempe one-man band Page the Village Idiot has been hosting Monday nights at Hollywood Alley forever, so I'm trusting you're quasi-familiar with his brand of onstage lunacy and...
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Home Grown
Eijay
Embryonic Soul
By Serene Dominic
Published: November 10, 2005
Smooth-voiced R&B singer Eijay (pronounced A-J) is a rare breed -- in his credits, he thanks "the haters for breaking into my studio and stealing my equipment. I really needed...
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Live Wire
Why?
It's how he says it
By Ray Cummings
Published: November 10, 2005
Filmmakers like to go on about how rhyme-slingers make such naturalistic actors, how the MCs' innate intensity translates well to the big screen. Oakland-based Why? makes an...
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Live Wire
Stryper
Long distance, give me Heaven
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: November 10, 2005
Hi, this is Michael Sweet from Stryper. I'm either rockin' a stage or deep in prayer right now, so leave your name and a brief message and I'll call you back. [beep] Yeah,...
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Live Wire
Charlie Sexton, and Shannon McNally
A little bit country
By Andrew Marcus
Published: November 10, 2005
Charlie Sexton, having left home at 12 to storm Austin as a guitar prodigy, does not lack in heartland grit. Maybe that's why his latest, Cruel and Gentle Things, harks back to...
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Live Wire
Vaux
Car-dancing alert
By Chelsea Ide
Published: November 10, 2005
When Vaux released its first album, There Must Be Some Way to Stop Them, on Volcom Recordings in 2003, we could sense something was percolating; this band was on the verge of...
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Live Wire
The Rocket Summer
Plays well with others
By Chris Parker
Published: November 10, 2005
For every hundred bedroom guitar heroes, there's a Bryce Avary, the kind of driven kid who doesn't just dream it. Avary recorded an EP at 18, setting the stage for his terrific...
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Live Wire
MXPX
G2GB!
By Chris Parker
Published: November 10, 2005
Bands change, fortunately, and so does the music they make. But that implies opinions must change, too. After describing MXPX as a pale Green Day imitation to the bass tech for...
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Live Wire
The Format
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Published: November 10, 2005
The Format is what would happen if a congested Cat Stevens fronted an '80s-influenced, synthed-up Beatles tribute band, and wrote lyrics as creatively true as "Snails see the...
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