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Fearful SymmetryThe Sisters of Mercy and The Birthday Massacre represent two sides of the Goth coin Any genre or style that lasts for any length of time eventually has practitioners who play out an identity crisis—should they continue in familiar territory, or figure out something new? And what do the younger artists following in the …
Radio is dead. MTV, as you have no doubt heard by now, doesn't play music videos anymore. The best bet for bands these days is to get their song played on a TV show or commercial, as crass as that might sound—just ask Sia, whose “Breathe Me” became a hit after appearing in the series …
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Leashed LightningBolt, Disney’s latest ’toon, is a starry dog story With his blazing-white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of Disney’s lively new animated movie Bolt looks a little bit real and a whole lot not. That’s not a failure of …
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The central appeal of the Isobel Campbell-Mark Lanegan pairing is simple. Their contrasting singing styles—hers is always soft and sweet; his, frequently gruff and gravelly—mesh with surprisingly effective results, like olive oil and vinegar or MSNBC pundits Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan. What Sunday at Devil Dirt isn’t is anything like the bands that former …
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Though Sunday at Devil Dirt, the second collaboration between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, has been out overseas for months, it's just seeing a US release today. We've got a review in this week's Weekly, but here it is a few days early. Magical! Isobel Campbell N Mark Lanegan Sunday at Devil Dirt (Vagrant) The …
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Orange County Sings the Obama BluesElection night: Frolicking Dems, Dana unbound, praying for fag hags, and booze all around ELEPHANTS IN THE WILDERNESSThe mood is understandably morgue-like at the state GOP’s “Victory Party” at the Hyatt Regency Irvine Tuesday night. An array of party leaders and elected politicians give obligatory thanks to John McCain, …
(photo by Christopher Victorio) Last Night: She N Him, Lavender Diamond at the House of Blues, Anaheim, Nov. 5, 2008. Better Than: “The Happening,” this summer's M. Night Shyamalan flick that co-starred Zooey Deschanel. But really, what isn't? Download: The eminently likable “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” from She N Him's Volume One. …
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Currently at Costa Mesa's Tin Lizzie—Deep Purple's “Knocking At Your Back Door” is playing overhead, heh—where CNN just projected Barack Obama as president and where a loud round of “Woooooooo”s, “YEEEEEEEAH”s and claps just erupted. Sure we knew this was coming (sort of), but a packed-in Tin Lizzie and yours truly are now more concerned …
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MSNBC just called it for Obama, and the crowd at Memphis at the Santora—the New Immigrants of this city: the hipsters and artists and yuppies (scratch that, Chuppies, and buppies and guppies) go wild. But down the street, the Gomorrah that is SanTana—its power structure—gears up for what will inevitably be a victorious night for …
. . . and if that happened, would the righty Red County blog have to change its name? Final election results from OC: PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Completed Precincts: 2109 of 2109 Vote Count Percentage JOHN MCCAIN / SARAH PALIN (REP) 430,360 50.8% BARACK OBAMA / JOE BIDEN (DEM) 401,605 47.4% BOB BARR / WAYNE …
Sure, it's fun to sit at home on election night and watch the results come in. I mean, think of all the great moments: Russert with the whiteboard, Florida “erroneously” being called for Gore, and, uh, other things that happened in years other than 2000. But what if you could watch these things – and …
*Bumped to the top, with new info as it comes on the bottom… The following letter from Register publisher Terry Horne landed in my junk folder this morning, right about the time it apparently reached LAObserved. Not a whole lot to add to this, except our wishes that all this self-destructive madness will stop. Orange …
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