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Selling Adventure: Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express @ Club Congress, Wednesday 11/11

Former Green on Red guitarist Chuck Prophet returns to Tucson with a new album

Ever since he joined Green on Red 25 years ago, I've wanted to ask singer-songwriter and guitarist Chuck Prophet if he was born with that last name. He set the record straight in an interview last week.

“Would I make that up?” he said… Continue

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Soundbites: All Souls Procession, Electric Six, Lucy Kaplansky, Kathy Mattea and More!

ALL SOULS PREPARES FOR ITS CLOSE-UP

If you haven't seen the mural painted on the east wall of the Rialto Theatre, you might think that Sunday's show there is just another Calexico concert (not that there’s anything wrong with that). It is not.

Sunday is, of course, the day that… Continue

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9 Questions: Bridgitte Thum

Bridgitte Thum is a Tucson native who is currently showing her paintings in New Works, Painted Songs at Circa 79 Salon and Gallery (6021 N. Oracle Road) through November. You can spot her singing embarrassing karaoke, practicing stand-up comedy or spending too much time picking out flowers at the supermarket.

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Toxic Ranch Records top sales for the week ending Nov. 1, 2009

1. The Tics

The Tics (self-released)

2. The Besmirchers

Skankenstein 7” (Steel Cage)

3. Cat Party

Cat Party (Flat Black)

4. Sonny Vincent

Semper Fidelis—30 Years Anthology (1972-2002) (Rockin’ Bones)

5. Reigning Sound

Love… Continue

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Alec Ounsworth: Mo Beauty (Anti-)

This pairing of a nasally voiced indie rocker from the Northeast with a collection of New Orleans musicians has yielded a strange hybrid, like alienation finding a solid footing.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah singer, songwriter and guitarist Alec Ounsworth journeyed to the Crescent City with producer Steve Berlin, who assemb… Continue

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Mark Knopfler: Get Lucky (Reprise)

Each release from ex-Dire Straits mastermind Mark Knopfler secures his rep as a classic songwriter—at the expense of his ranking as a guitarist.

Knopfler's sixth solo effort, Get Lucky, is his best in terms of his material, yet it’s his weakest fret-board effort. It’s a tradeoff that many will accept given the… Continue

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Monsters of Folk: Monsters of Folk (Shangri-La)

In moments of cynicism, blasphemous notions pop into my head. One example: There should be a one-month hiatus on all new bands. However, should such a fascistic ban occur, projects like Monsters of Folk might not be born, and the world would be a much darker place.

The artists behind Monsters of Folk are by no means ne… Continue

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Live: Peaches, Men @ Rialto Theatre, Wednesday 10/28

If Peaches' latest album, I Feel Cream, represents a mellowing of her material—with less of an emphasis on pornographic shock-talk—Wednesday's performance was a jolting reminder that she's still got her edge.

Her stage show was evidence that Peaches is the performer Madonna always wished she could be, from… Continue

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We are What We Choose

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Giddy Gouda "Run This Town Remix"

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Hard-Core Troubadour: Tom Russell @ Club Congress, Thursday 11/5

Tom Russell eschews modern indie rock's emasculated songwriting

Old-school country-folk beatnik-cowboy singer/songwriter Tom Russell holds a certain measure of respect for the Southwest indie-rock scene, especially younger artists who recently have emerged from Tucson's Wavelab Studio with killer tunes and classic albu… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 28, 2009 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Soundbites: Nightmare on Congress St., Melt-Banana,Shonen Knife, Solar Culture and More!

A RATHER FUN NIGHTMARE

When I was young, we children ruled Halloween. We'd dress up as Gene Simmons, get as much candy as we could lug around from neighbors we didn't otherwise engage with, and feast on our bounty for what seemed like months.

However, I don't remember my parents ever coming home sloshed dressed… Continue

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Zia Records top sales for the week ending Oct. 25, 2009

1. Paper Tongues

Ride to California (A&M/Octone)

2. Alice in Chains

Black Gives Way to Blue (Virgin)

3. Rammstein

Liebe Ist für Alle Da (Vagrant)

4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (DVD)

Paramount

5. The Flaming Lips

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The Slits: Trapped Animal (Narnack)

Thirty years after they turned punk and dub reggae on their ears, The Slits are back with Trapped Animal, sounding as uncompromising and relevant as ever. Essentially the first all-girl British punk group to make a mark, The Slits blew a hole in the boys’ club of British punk and held their own with touring mates The… Continue

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Nurses: Apple’s Acre (Dead Oceans) @ Plush, Saturday 10/31

On paper, the Nurses' formula sounds a shade of awful: hootenanny percussion, two guys singing in layered high-pitched caterwauls, and plinking pianos topped with synthesizers. But what music ever sounds good on paper?

In actuality, Apple's Acre is instantly invigorating, caterwauling and all. Aaron Chapman and… Continue

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Spiral Stairs: The Real Feel (Matador)

Pavement's Scott Kannberg has finally released his first official "solo" album under his infamously random stage name, Spiral Stairs. Kannberg spent most of the '00s in Preston School of Industry, releasing two glittering albums of anthemic California pop tinged with Americana. Between these albums and Stephen Malkmus’ work wi… Continue

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9 Questions: Mike Gray

"Psychic" Mike Gray moved to Tucson from El Paso in 1986, and has traveled back and forth ever since. He has played in numerous local punk bands, including Cosmic Jackhammer, Opinion Zero, Cancer Brides and Schizm. Gray is currently a pest-management professional at University Termite and Pest Control and educates the pu… Continue

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Live: Lagoon, Umbrella Bird, Rescue Light @ Plush, Saturday 10/24

A core of avid fans clustered near the stage to celebrate Lagoon's homecoming on Saturday night. Their fist-pumping and singing along were rewarded with a host of new material and a passel of favorites from the band’s two previous albums.

At first, David Ziegler-Voll's voice seemed a bit unreliable, an affliction he sha… Continue

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Cold Times : Why? @ Club Congress , Saturday 10/24

Why? wades through the strange 'Eskimo Snow'

The weird world of Why?—more specifically, the world evoked in the peculiar lyrics of frontman Yoni Wolf—continues to get stranger.

On the Oakland-by-way-of-Cincinnati band’s unusual, engrossing Eskimo Snow (Anticon), scary figures, comical failures and sad p… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 21, 2009 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Digital Leather, Lagoon, Built to Spill and More!

PREPARE TO TAKE COVER

Calling all local bands: The 12th Annual Great Cover-Up is a couple months away, and submissions are being considered from bands and performers who would like to participate. This year’s event will take place at its traditional home, Club Congress… Continue

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