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Cat Power
The Greatest
(Matador Records)By Adam Radcliffe
Published: January 19, 2006
With a title like The Greatest and a hot pink album cover featuring boxing glove bling, Chan Marshall (otherwise known as Cat Power) seems to be making an effort to separate...
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Film
Smiles to Go
Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie
By Bill Gallo
Published: January 19, 2006
We popcorn-chomping hitchhikers never know who will pick us up on the roadside. In Flirting With Disaster, it was a neurotic Manhattan adoptee on a nationwide search for his...
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Resolution Guide
Get Out of the Bargain Basement Rut . . .
And start dressing like a grown-up
By Sarah Fenske
Published: January 19, 2006
There is no good explanation for the coat that hangs in my closet. Not that it's ugly. Far from it. Heathery brown tweed, with a nipped waist and shoulders that sit just so,...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 19, 2006
Published: January 19, 2006
Artists in Residences Capital "A"-holes: There are Artists (with a capital A), and then there are artists. Unfortunately, The Bird paints them all with a very broad brush...
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8 Ball
Almost Famous: Chopped and Screwed
(8 Ways Entertainment)By Rachel Swan
Published: January 19, 2006
By employing the chopped and screwed mix method -- a style developed by Houston's own DJ Screw that slows down a song's tempo for a lurching, dizzying effect akin to a...
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Resolution Guide
Get Out of the Self-Serving Rut . . .
And volunteer to make other lives easier
By Susan Tully
Published: January 19, 2006
When Katrina struck, he borrowed a truck from the U-Haul dealership where he worked his second job. Instead of loading up his worldly possessions before fleeing the path of the...
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Head Wound City
Head Wound City
(Three-One-G)By Mike Rowell
Published: January 19, 2006
A prime example of a drunken idea that turned out to be a good one, Head Wound City is a noise-rock supergroup of sorts, featuring two members each from hypercore outfits The...
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Resolution Guide
Get Outof the Dining-Doldrums Rut . . .
And ride go-karts, wield flaming torches, or eat a testicle
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: January 19, 2006
It's like clockwork. As each and every night out rolls around, you swear it'll be filled with excitement, rather than the regular routine of dinner and a movie. But alas,...
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Jack Endino
Permanent Fatal Error
(Wondertaker)By Dave Pehling
Published: January 19, 2006
Though millions of people heard his influence on classic efforts by Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and others, recorded during his stint as de facto in-house producer for Sub...
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Resolution Guide
Mondo Resolutions . . .
When new Choos aren't enough
By Anneli Rufus
Published: January 19, 2006
Sometimes the rut you're in is bigger than all that. Sometimes it's deeper and wider than just Whoa, I wear too much orange or So there are other channels besides the Spice...
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We Are Scientists
With Love and Squalor
(Virgin)By Joshua Rotter
Published: January 19, 2006
Don't let the band's name, the band members' eyeglasses, or the kittens they're brandishing on the album cover fool you. The dudes in We Are Scientists look every bit as...
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Film School
Film School
(Beggars Banquet)By Mosi Reeves
Published: January 19, 2006
San Francisco band Film School's brand of music is an anguished yet expertly resurrected form of shoegaze; it's Slowdive for the new millennium. One of the tracks from its...
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Live Wire
Marah
An indie you can't refuse
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: January 19, 2006
Meanwhile, in a back room somewhere in northern New Jersey . . . "Do you know why I've gathered you here for this important meeting?" "No, Boss," replied the eight...
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Live Wire
Some Girls
A sampler plate that'll fill you up
By Chelsea Ide
Published: January 19, 2006
Some Girls don't do eyeliner. They aren't sweet. They don't take things lightly. Oh yeah, and they're dudes. The brutality on the five-piece's latest disc, Heaven's Pregnant...
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Live Wire
High on Fire
Yes, metal can burn
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: January 19, 2006
Fans of music heavier than the cast of Celebrity Fit Club 3 have had much to rejoice about over the past couple of years, what with so many powerful, innovative sounds coming...
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Live Wire
James McMurtry
Stories, with guitar
By Chris Parker
Published: January 19, 2006
His dad, novelist Larry McMurtry, bought him his first guitar when he was 7, and his mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it, but even so, the acorn resides...
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Live Wire
The Tuna Helpers
Freaky-funky-gothy casserole
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: January 19, 2006
Whatever happened to those freaky-deaky sisters we knew back in high school? You know, that one pair of punky-funky-gothy chicks who dressed like they were Tim Burton groupies...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing
Who's spinning what, where and when
Published: January 19, 2006
Thursday 19 Ain't Nobody's Bizness: DJ Suzy (hip-hop, dance) Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with DJ Jeremy (goth, industrial) Club Dwntwn: DJs Kirby and Chris Shannon...
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Needle Exchange
DJ Robbie Rivera
Just call him Dr. House
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: January 19, 2006
Puerto Rican born and raised house DJ Robbie Rivera earned his chops the hard way on the island, spinning for whomever would hire him -- without the benefit of pitch control on...
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What's Selling
Top ten selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 2510 West Thunderbird Road
Chart-busters for the week
Published: January 19, 2006
1. Matisyahu, Live at Stubbs (Sony) 2. Sublime, Gold (Geffen) 3. The Strokes, First Impressions of Earth (RCA) 4. Eminem, Curtain Call (Aftermath) 5. System of a Down,...
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