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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Never wanted you

The Coathangers demand you keep our hands to yourself

In Music

Promises fulfilled

Music: Patti Smith's love letter to Mapplethorpe by Bill Holdship

Live & Local

Live & Local : Puppy Jet @ Pedicab Bar & Grill by Jeremy Martin

The Sound & The Fury

Sound and the Fury: (a week on the music scene) by Enrique Lopetegui

Americano

Aural Pleasure review: At first listen, the new Krayolas album, produced by Joe Treviño... by Enrique Lopetegui

Jet Lag

Aural Pleasure review: After years of manning the drum kit for his brother’s band WHY?,... by Eddie Fleisher

The Stimulus Package

Aural Pleasure review: Diminishing returns have long been the norm for onetime Roc-a-Fe... by Ray Cummings

The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

Aural Pleasure review: Behind today’s indie-rock curtain, crossover classical bands like Clogs hav... by Keith Gribbins

Pachuco boogie

Kamikaze: Kamikaze (the cutting edge of latin music) | By Enrique Lopetegui [3/3/2010]

The Sound & The Fury

Sound and the Fury: (a week on the music scene) | By Enrique Lopetegui [3/3/2010]

Can ya digg?

All City : All City (hip-hop culture) | By M. Solis [3/3/2010]

Live & Local

Live & Local : The Rafiki Project @ Cafe Latino | By Jeremy Martin [3/3/2010]

Live & Local

Live & Local : The Nancy Silva Project @ The Mix | By Imelda Vergara [2/24/2010]

The Sound & The Fury

Sound and the Fury: (a week on the music scene) | By Enrique Lopetegui [2/24/2010]

The great communicator

Interview : Richie Havens, still using his thumb at 69 | By Enrique Lopetegui [2/24/2010]

The Willie way

Music: In his bootsteps from"Whiskey River" to A Colbert Christmas | By Jeremy Martin [2/24/2010]

Quasi: American Gong

Recording: Three and out is the weird career pattern for Oregon’s Quasi. Th...... By Chris Drabick [3/3/2010]

Okapi: Love Him

Aural Pleasure: The sample-happy DJ label Illegal Art is no stranger to funny bu...... By Keith Gribbins [3/3/2010]

Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me

Aural Pleasure: Newsom’s third is a critic’s nightmare. Three CDs’, 18 songs’, t...... By Jeremy Martin [3/3/2010]

Our Sleeping Giant: Hardest Year to Date

Aural Pleasure: This 20-minute EP from Our Sleeping Giant seems to be a concept ...... By Jeremy Martin [3/3/2010]

Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back

Aural Pleasure: Throughout Peter Gabriel’s long career — first as the camouflaged frontman and creative catalyst...... By Brian Baker [2/24/2010]

Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine and the Art of Protest

Aural Pleasure: When Lennon died in 1980, the Reagan era began. When Rage Against the Machine broke up in 2000, ...... By Enrique Lopetegui [2/24/2010]

Tindersticks: Falling Down a Mountain

Aural Pleasure: Tindersticks mounted one of 2008’s most unexpected comebacks. Stuart Staples reconvened about ha...... By Chris Drabick [2/24/2010]

Johnny Cash: American VI: Ain't No Grave

Aural Pleasure: American VI, the supposed last official Johnny Cash release — at least until he’s inevi...... By Jeremy Martin [2/24/2010]

Priestess: Prior to the Fire

Aural Pleasure: Subtlety is a term not often applied to heavy music, but it is central to Montreal’s Priestess. ...... By Nicholas Hall [2/17/2010]

Massive Attack: Heligoland

Aural Pleasure: Massive Attack’s fifth album, Heligoland, comes seven years after the release of 100th Window. A...... By Jeremy Willets [2/17/2010]

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy: Every Man for Himself and God Against All

Aural Pleasure: This bleak, 30-minute instrumental opus from the Grasshopper Lies Heavy is like a stoned-drone P...... By Jeremy Martin [2/17/2010]

Hot Chip: One Life Stand

Aural Pleasure: If listening to Nickelback is like dating the captain of the football team, listening to Hot Chi...... By Danielle Sills [2/17/2010]

Eberhard Weber: Colours

Aural Pleasure: The CDs in this box — Yellow Fields, Silent Feet, and Little Movements — collect out-of-print wo...... By Carlo Wolff [2/10/2010]

We Leave at midnight: Record an EP

Aural Pleasure: This four-song release from We Leave at Midnight — all locals except for Austinite frontman John...... By Jeremy Martin [2/10/2010]

Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe 2

Aural Pleasure: Sequels are generally inferior to the original, and it’s no exception with Rob Zombie’s follow-u...... By Chris Parker [2/10/2010]

Midlake: The Courage of Others

Aural Pleasure: It’s not easy for a band to come up with a memorable sophomore album, so it was auspicious when ...... By Brian Baker [2/10/2010]

by Serene Dominic

Perry’s ‘No new taxes!’ = jail deaths, overcrowding

by: gharman on 3/16/2010

The mysterious lady and the “hearing”-impaired cats

by: Kamikaze108 on 3/16/2010

Express-News beats drum for $1-billion ocean desal

by: gharman on 3/15/2010

Music events for 3/16/2010

Susan Gibson & Mark Jungers

Gruene Hall, New Braunfels. 3/16/2010, 7pm

The StoneCutterz

Mine Shaft Saloon, San Antonio. 3/16/2010, 9:30pm to 1:30am

Shivering Denizens

Nightrocker Live, San Antonio. 3/16/2010, 10pm

SXSW Showcase featuring Your Divine Tragedy, Green Eyed Stare, the Culprit, Cold Forty Three, Peekaboo Theory, Doves & Sirens, the Constellation Branch, Radiobox

Zombies, San Antonio. 3/16/2010, 9pm

Open Mic w/ Sal

The Cove, San Antonio. 3/16/2010, 7:30pm

The Ryan Bradley Affair, the Branches, Winter Dance Party

The Mix, San Antonio. 3/16/2010, 11pm

More events today ...

Express-News beats drum for $1-billion ocean desal

Anonymous said, "Not to mention the oceanic ecosystems that get destroyed when pump out their water (and, oftentime... "

Express-News beats drum for $1-billion ocean desal

Anonymous said, "Thanks Harman for the reminder about just how crazy this small town can get when everyone starts sin... "

Animal Wrongs

Anonymous said, "I thin k we are losing track here but it is still funny. LOL However this is no laughing matter. LOL... "

Better than 40 for Life

Anonymous said, "what a FANTASTIC article! thanks!... "

¡Ask a Mexican!

Anonymous said, "Fron-chi....from el paso coming form the car plates that read "Frontero Chihuahua"... "

Free Will Astrology

Anonymous said, "WHY NOT POST THEM IN THE PAPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... "

Rode hard, put away wet

Anonymous said, "Fine mother uckers. Wait till I move then start rollin the dope shzz. Psychedlic Art at the Art Mu... "

Rave on

Anonymous said, "I remember Eclipse Records...tiny little corner spot on San Pedro. Dark windows. And I know your l... "

Rode hard, put away wet: A quick tour of the eco-friendly, low-tech, community-oriented porn counterculture

Better than 40 for Life: 15 things you can do to actually prevent abortions

Death by inches: Why Eric Fonseca’s film won’t bring down the House

Never wanted you: The Coathangers demand you keep our hands to yourself

Fresh from the comix world: STAPLE! 2010

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