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How time flies. It’s been 20 years since the Breeders made a huge splash with Last Splash; the noise-pop group formed when the Pixies Dayton, Ohio-born Kim Deal started writing songs while the Pixies were on a European tour. De...
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In Pain & Gain, the new movie from director Michael Bay (Transformers), Ken Jeong plays Jonny Wu, a motivational speaker who encourages bodybuilder Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) to head down a destructive path. It’s perfect f...
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Singer-guitarist Steven Wilson formed the English prog rock band Porcupine Tree in the late ’80s and has slowly attained a cult following. While the band has been inactive for the past three years, Wilson has pursued a solo car...
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Famous for fronting the hard rock act White Zombie, Rob Zombie has become a master of the grisly horror flick. His 2007 remake of Halloween is disturbingly violent. He shows a bit more subtlety with his latest feature, The Lord...
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Since issuing its full-length debut, Forge & Flagon, earlier this year, the UK punk band Skinny Lister has spent the better part of 2013 playing with Flogging Molly. Both bands play Pogues-inspired pub rock, so it’s been a...
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Room 237, Rodney Ascher’s documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s horror film The Shining artfully explores the various theories of hidden meanings associated with the movie. An intriguing documentary that uses footage from a varie...
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In the appropriately named alt-country act He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, real-life brother and sister Robert and Rachel Kolar split vocals while Lauren Brown drums/tap-dances. A stand-up bass and lap slide guitar augments th...
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A scruffy blues duo out of Kansas, guitarist Aaron Moreland and harpist/vocalist Dustin Arbuckle hooked up with producer Seattle-based record producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Minus The Bear, The Sword, Norma Jean) for their fort...
Flicks
Director Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) has a host of great movies to his credit. Following 127 Hours, his 2010 film about a rock climber who cuts off his own arm to survive, Trance is yet anoth...
Art
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Baby Dee started out as street performer and moved to New York City, where, after a stint as a music director at a Catholic Church, “he” became “she.” Baby Dee then be...