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BloodWitch Break Out of Denton’s Minimalist Basement

In the great hall of Denton music, with its jazz and folk and pop, there certainly must be a basement. In that basement lie the darker, sludgier, more cavernous bands and artists to come out of this town, and one of the newest basement dwellers is BloodWitch. Members Nick Tallichet...
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Neon Indian to Join Brooklyn’s The Antlers on Forthcoming EP

This year's Burst Apart from Booklyn's The Antlers is looking really good for our year-end top ten list. The expansive, textured, stoned-out pop goes over even better live than on the record, as we learned when the band passed through town at The Loft last June.About a month before that...
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DFW Stage Talent Give It the Old Holidazzle on Charity CD

Get a bunch of local musical theater stars together and there will be singing. Plus some gratuitous kissy-face, lots of hugs and a little gossip about who's got what role where. Monday night at Kalita Humphreys Theater, dozens of DFW's busiest professional actors mingled with family and friends at a...
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The Long Arm Sees All: Ten Musicians Arrested in Texas

When Snoop Dogg was issued a citation for marijuana possession at a border checkpoint outside El Paso last week, the world reacted with shock and disbelief. We had no idea this beacon of sobriety -- the same guy who penned "Smoke Weed Everyday" - could act so out of character...
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If Only We Could Have Fried Cake Balls at Sam’s Club

This week in food news, diners and their dogs flocked to patios to enjoy the cooler weather, we got the results of this year's Big Tex Choice awards and actually found a guy who has a problem with cake balls. Read on. City of Ate Scott Reitz came across new...
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Sleeping Beauty, Kinky as It May Be, is a Yawn.

Frustratingly opaque, Australian novelist-turned-filmmaker Julia Leigh's debut feature opens with an unforgettable image: A young woman, earning some extra cash as a medical-research subject, patiently sits as a long tube is threaded down her esophagus. Sharp and precise as its tableau might be, though, Sleeping Beauty never burrows into the...
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Staff Picks: Top Ten Local and National Albums of 2011

I'm not one for New Year resolutions, but at the beginning of 2011, I made one I was actually pretty excited about keeping. My goal was to listen to more music this year than any other year before. Thanks to the help of some generous publicists, Spotify and some solid...
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MOBC Reading Assignment #1: Try On Some Bossypants

Well lookee at those poll results up there: Tina Fey beat out The Magicians -- both fictional and Penn Jillette. For the first assignment, book clubbers, we're reading the first half of Bossypants (those who have read it say it's a quick read). For those of you who don't trust...
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2011 Music, Turned Up to 11

This year's best show, I am still convinced, happened in February, when noise rock godheads Swans played Mohawk in Austin. My hearing was left impaired, my spine crooked, my spirit broken. I've never felt more alive. I'd interviewed frontman Michael Gira by phone before the show and asked why he...