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Produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The Black Keys, Sparklehorse), the new album Evil Friends from Portugal. The Man has a groove to it and features infectious songs such as “Purple Yellow Red and Blue,” one of the summer...
Flicks
Director Gary Jones started making low-budget horror movies in 1995 when he released Mosquito, a movie about a deadly giant bug. Since then, he’s made close to 20 flicks. His latest, Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan depicts ...
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Rock critics in L.A. quickly praised native sons The Airborne Toxic Event as soon as the band issued its 2007 self-released debut, Does This Mean You’re Moving On? Now, several studio albums later, the band’s hymns have caught ...
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Named after two characters in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the folk-rock group Ivan and Alyosha had a minor hit two years ago when “Easy to Love” picked up some radio airplay. The group has just issued its full-length d...
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Bloc Party made a big splash when they released Silent Alarm. The British rockers’ 2005 debut was nominated for a Mercury Prize, British music magazine NME voted it “album of the year” and it even managed to sell a few hundred ...
Movie
This fancy driving franchise has reached the point where it’s virtually impossible to up the ante. The previous flick, 2011’s Fast Five, featured a scene in which the guys dragged a vault through town behind their souped-up rid...
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Rumored to be longtime rivals, shock rockers Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson have just announced that they’ll join forces for the first time ever for “Masters of Madness: Shock Therapy,” a co-headlining summer tour. Manson has ...
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In his book Stealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of the Clash, Randal Doane, an Assistant Dean of Studies at Oberlin College, puts his sociology degree to work as he tries to come to terms with the British punk band’s p...
Concert Recaps
While the Rolling Stones took the stage a good 45 minutes after a scheduled 8pm start time last night at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, that didn’t keep the sold out audience from remaining on its feet for the duration of th...
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A L.A. duo with an affinity for the kind of synth pop music that was popular in the ’80s, Capital Cities is currently on tour in advance of the release of its major label debut, In a Tidal Wave of Mystery, a terrific collection...