What: The Death Dance Tour
When: Saturday June 16
Where: The Glass House, Pomona
Maybe this should be called the Scions of Anticon Tour (although Alias still records for the Oakland underground-hip-hop label). He and anticon alumni Buck 65 and Sage Francis are now seasoned vets of the stage and they commandeer it with ruthless authority while subtly tinkering with hip-hop's DNA.
I missed most of Buddy Wakefield's set, but what I did catch revealed a spoken-word performer of considerable energy
This week's pick is a no-brainer. It's WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY.
I don't think the movie has been promoted correctly -- I haven't seen any trailers, just those annoying li'l wraparound things on the OC Weekly papers. You may have been misled. I caught this movie at AFI Fest last year, when it had no distribution, and fell in love (but didn't cut my wrists). My original review follows below:
Scarlett has Tom on her side.
Scorching-hot actor Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Ghost World, Match Point) will be releasing her debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head (I have some suggestions), May 20 on Atco/Rhino. The disc includes one original Johansson composition and 10 interpretations of Tom Waits songs. TV on the Radio's David Sitek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner, Celebration's Sean Antanaitis and others lent their talents to the Scarlett opus, which was recorded at Lo
Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.
Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the fact that the alb
