Pages tagged “issue 47”

Ben Folds: Way To Normal

Ben Folds may have named his third solo LP...  read more

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The Lucky 
Ones

Audiences haven’t exactly been flocking to movies dealing with the Iraq War...  read more

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Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue

Three editors debate Rilo Kiley singer's latest...with haiku!  read more

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Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Pusher

With its self-titled 2004...  read more

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Kings of Leon: Only By The Night

Kings or jokers? Two writers debate...  read more

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River of Screams

Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff wrote “Westfall,” a chilling murder ballad about the slaying of a young girl, more than six years ago. Yet even now, Okkervil audiences scream every word...  read more

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My History of Violence

When I was a cub reporter starting out at the Albuquerque Tribune, I found a report in the police blotter about a pair of 16-year-old lovers who gassed themselves in a car. I about choked on how great a story it was, did a little reporting, found out they did it in a...  read more

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Cold War Kids: Loyalty to Loyalty

Music blogs are like bad boyfriends...  read more

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Shock and Awww

We live in a brutal world. Violent, degrading and tragic events disturb everyday existence, just as they have since the dawn of time. Or as novelist Chuck Palahniuk puts it, “Crap has always happened, crap is happening and crap will continue to happen.”...  read more

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Stuart Townsend: Ain't No Power Like the Power of People

In 1999, during the winter of our discontent, a tornado hit America’s own Emerald City—Seattle—in the form of tens of thousands of protesters who stormed the streets in a successful effort to shut down a meeting of the...  read more

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