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American Music: The Hightone Records Story boxed set (Hightone Records) is extremely likable in concept. The imprint is a hardworking indie out of Oakland that has spent the...
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Ambulance Chasers
Got no soul: Once again we see how Bob Ramsey and Pat Cantelme play this little game ("Emergency Brake," Sarah Fenske, November 9). A game that is played...
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Despite the best efforts of several generations of right-wing extremists, it's impossible to watch this DVD, Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows (Image Entertainment) today...
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"Fetti Profoun" is a horrible hip-hop handle, but the hooks here are hot as hell. The CD opens with audio clips from local news stations, spliced together to sound like a big,...
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"It would mean so much to me to know mystery," Brock Ruggles announces early on in The Great Saturday Night Swindle, but he and his new band Tierra del Fuego have crafted a...
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Here's a group of girls who look like they're dressed for a slutty, gender-bending slumber party, singing a song called "Titties" that asks a question like, "What makes you...
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If you take a cynic's view toward "expanded" reissues of recent albums, then, yeah: Anymore, the masters don't even get shelved before record labels are padding releases with...
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The thinking-man's-metal tag that hangs on Isis seems bad for business, but guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner and his comrades don't appear to mind. After all, the jacket of...
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Wherein Tom Waits cleans out the closet, holds a garage sale and finds the crowd begging for more, more, more. Hence the 26 soundtrack-compilation-etc. familiars and 30 "new"...
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"All music shows are better with booze," according to Josh Preston, lead vocalist and guitarist of local band A Few Random Drunks. True to its name, the group formed out of...
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Ben Lee may be headlining the "Fun! Fun! Fun! Tour," but the artist most likely to live up to the spirit of that tour name is Rooney, a band whose infectious self-titled debut...
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Holy cowbell, biker babes! This co-ed stoner metal band sure has some gritty gee-tars and hard rock chops on its fourth studio effort, Their Rock Is Not Our Rock. The album...
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Based on polls conducted last week, here are some of the reasons Americans chose The Elected this year: 1) They ran a positive, intelligent, feel-good, idea-filled campaign...
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Everybody knows that Dubya is a diehard country music fan, but even the good ol' boys would have wrinkled their noses if Trace Adkins had played "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" at...
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It's no secret the devilish dance demons of Sadisco hate Tranzylvania. Besides nursing a grudge over how an overzealous bouncer at the popular weekly goth night allegedly...
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Thursday 16Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Cat Eye: Punk Rock Thursdays with DJ Diesel (rock, punk)
Club Central: DJ Luis (salsa, merengue)
The Crown Room: DJ Gable (rock,...
