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“He always comes up with some crazy, great fucking idea, and gets it done,” says Scott McCaughey (of the Minus 5 and R.E.M.) about his friend Chris Slusarenko. This week Slusarenko will see the release of Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch on his own little label, […]
Down With Love dir. Reed Opens Fri May 16 Various Theaters The most gratifying part of any modern-day romantic comedy is also its most ruinous: the inevitable, crowd-pleasing partnership of the protagonist and his or her ill-matched antagonist. Audiences weep with joy over the union of the polished sophisticate and the diamond-in-the-rough bumpkin, or the […]
The Whip Fri Jan 17 Berbati’s Interviewing the now–defunct Oly band Karp was daunting, because guitarist Jared Warren and drummer Scotty Jernigan loved to make up stories and pass them off as the truth. So when I talked to them about their new project, the Whip, I made one firm request: No bullshit answers. “Well, […]
8 Women dir. Ozon Opens Fri Oct 4 Various There is so much to love about 8 Women–and despite the all-female cast, one need not be a woman to adore it. One must simply hold the tiniest kernel of curiosity about what makes a woman tick. All is told to those who pay attention to […]
About A Boy dir. Chris & Paul Weitz Opens Fri May 17 Various Theaters When Bridget Jones’s Diary came out a while back, I was among the tiny minority of female viewers who absolutely hated the film. It didn’t impress me that Renee Ziggywiggy blew herself up like a balloon for the lead role in […]
SpiritualizedThur Nov 8 Roseland It must be pretty great to be Jason Pierce. As a founding member of Spacemen 3, Pierce made unconfined music that stretched the gummy boundaries of psychedelia. With his current band, Spiritualized, Pierce has delivered no more than four increasingly elaborate albums in just over a decade, a snail’s pace given […]
31Knots EP Releasew/ Ibobuki, The Intima Sat Oct 27 Blackbird Call it neo-prog, math rock, or what have you, but chances are if you listen to (or if your band plays) this type of music, you’re branded an intellectual. A discerning disdainer. A stick-up-the-ass snob. Joe Haege, singer and guitarist for 31Knots, gets this all […]
For years I’ve been in the constant possession of a shirt that, as a child, I believed to be magic. And when I pull it out of the drawer and slip my arms into its well-worn sleeves, I smell red licorice. I came to own the shirt when I was 25, after rifling through my […]
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