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show review: A Night At The Casbah! THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT & IN THE RED

The Raw Fun of It

[In The Red as well as the other bands who played that night also have reviews forthcoming. Stayed tuned... ~Ed.]
Review By Sean Ross

The Casbah, known for its seven-night lineup, pool table benches, and low flying jets, will always remind you that small venues are the best places for viewing shows. Where [...]

Video: Crystal Renn Dances ’round The Block

Art + Commerce hips us to many things.
from fordmodelsblog.com.

Art + Commerce hips us to many things. Their formidable portfolio of campaigns, their roster of photographers, and then there is their blog, which today of all grey days served a peach of a video featuring Crystal Renn shot by photographer Skye Parrott on set for the [...]

new music reviews, eightfourseven, Buck Gooter, cheater pint ...

The Experiments
What Kind of Animal
Review by Sean Ross
The Experiments latest and free album What Kind of Animal quickly asserts itself as pop-punk teeming with classic sounds familiar to the tortured underage urban wanderers of the late seventies and early eighties—only, much tighter and impressive, more now. Songs are replete with stylized guitar punctuations, absurdly succinct [...]

Three more new CDs that will rock your world!

New Concept
Stomp!
www.new-concept.net
Esox Music
www.esoxpop.com
Reviewed by Kent Manthie
There’s a new band in town, just off the Lufthansa jetliner from Germany: New Concept sound like they just stepped out of a time warp from a club in what was then West Berlin, circa 1982. Maybe the members were catching a show [...]

Brand New of Montreal CD - just out!!!

Of Montreal
False Priest
Polyvinyl Records, 2010
Reviewed by Kent Manthie
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re Kevin Barnes. False Priest is his tenth blissful CD, released under the moniker of Montreal. Unfortunately, I was a Johnny-Come-Lately when it came to discovering this project, but then again, they hardly ever come [...]

book review: Neil Young, Long May You Run

[Book Review]
Neil Young, Long May You Run:
An Illustrated History

By Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff
Voyageur Press Minneapolis, 2010,
hardcover

book review by Kent Manthie

Into his fifth decade as an uncompromising, unpredictable and awe-inspiring songwriter Neil Young has touched the hearts and minds of many types of people: in other words, there’s no particular demographic for who listens [...]

New Music

CDs and new releases
various artists

Dry County Drifters Broken Hearts and Second Chances
This band is polished and has the clean sound of a seasoned country act. At first I thought they might be alt-country rock, but no, this is the real thing. It’s mighty country. I have to admit, by way of [...]

Matador Vegas Roadtrip Action

Matador Celebrates Its 21st Birthday With A Vegas Blowout

From laist.com

Ready for a road trip? Indie super label Matador is turning 21 this year. And what would any right-minded individual do to celebrate that milestone birthday? Head to Vegas of course.

The Matador at 21 music festival, to take place at The Palms, October 1-3, boasts a [...]

Modern Necromance

I Love Cemeteries!

story and photos by Jessica Delfino

New York City

Signs posted on splintery wooden poles and rusty metal stated “No Loitering” and I knew they were speaking to me. It almost seemed like the teens of my town were hated, like dirty mistakes, and that adults hoped that we would just disappear. So we did.

If [...]

DVD review: The Ballad of Peter LaFarge

[Film]

The Ballad of Peter Lafarge/Rare Breed

The Ballad of Peter LaFarge (DVD)

review by Jim Cherry

Peter LaFarge was a proto-type for a rock star, he led a life that would be the envy of any writer. He was a rodeo cowboy, actor, playwright, folksinger, painter, manic depressive, drug user, all the things that burn in talent [...]