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Thursday, March 25, 2010

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SXSW 2010: The band who wasn't there

Beach Fossils, Tanlines, Best Coast, and a wave of minimalism at SXSW
This past Saturday around noon, about a dozen of us were cracking our first Lone Stars of the day at Peckerheads, one of scores of dimly daylit venues lining Austin’s teeming Sixth Street.
By: MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  March 24, 2010
 

Arts

Airs and graces
Stephen Petronio at the ICA, Black Grace at the Paramount
Interview: Tamler Sommers
Philosophically speaking
Joyride
The Worcester Art Museum shows us ‘Who Shot Rock & Roll’
Otherworldly
Brad Watson’s aliens
Play by play: March 26, 2010
Theater listings, March 26, 2010
Zero at the bone
SpeakEasy’s Adding Machine sings

Food

Red Lentil Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurant
No meat? No problem.
WAN Convenience Store and Deli
Excellent sub sandwiches, served on island time

Life

Go frock yourself!
An Irish-Jewish atheist who disdains religion becomes an ordained minister online to officiate his friends’ wedding
I bet this is what heaven is like
Failure
No Insurance
Hoopleville
The Metric Resistance
Big Fat Whale
Wintour tackles weighty subject at Harvard
Ice Age over at Vogue?

Movies

Boston film group protests arrest of Iranian director
Power of cinema?
Review: Chloe
A polymorphously perverse tango of voyeurism
Review: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Leave It to Beaver , according to Eddie Haskell
Review: Greenberg
A spurious man
Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
Plays out like a mullet in the new millennium
Review: How To Train Your Dragon
Also better than Avatar
Review: Mid-August Lunch
From gangsters to golden girls
Review: The Bounty Hunter
Dreadful, handcuffed to derivative
Review: The Sun
The shades close for  Emperor Hirohito

Music

Alex Chilton, 1950 - 2010
In memoriam
Boys meet girls
The four most crucial post-punk boy-girl duos of the '80s
Evelyn Evelyn | Evelyn Evelyn
Eleven (2010)
Goldfrapp | Head First
Mute (2010)
Iggy & The Stooges | Raw Power (Legacy Edition)
Columbia/Legacy (2010)
Joan Armatrading | This Charming Life
429 (2010)

Music Continued

Jónsi | Go
XL (2010)
Making it sing
Dee Dee does Billie, plus John Stein & Ron Gill
Not teens, not dreams
Beach House avoid the literal
Shedding his skin
The new J the S is wiser than the old one
SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Casevettes, Classixx, Solid Gold
Plus Ann Driscoll on March 19, 2010
SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Hole at Stubb's
Hole at SPIN Magazine's party, March 19, 2010
SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Le Loup and Beach Fossils
Live at Lovejoys on March 19, 2010
SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Thee Oh Sees, Bear In Heaven, Bowerbirds
With Explode Into Colors and Quasi, March 19. 2010
SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] Around Austin
The Phoenix team hits the streets at SXSW 2010
SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] J Mascis, Exene Cervenka, and Fucked Up
Live at SXSW 2010 on March 20, 2010
SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] Sleigh Bells and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
At Levis Fader Fort on March 20, 2010
SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos]: Hey Champs, Bad Rabbits, Karen Elson
With Dead Confederate and Carsick Cars
SXSW 2010: [Photos] Austin by cameraphone
A candid view of what lies behind the music at South by Southwest
SXSW 2010: [Photos] 'Stache by 'Stache West
In pursuit of the hirsute at SXSW 2010
SXSW 2010: British Invasion
WFNX honcho rates his four best English bands at SXSW
SXSW 2010: Hare band
Boston’s Bad Rabbits get a major buzzcut
SXSW 2010: Lost in Austin
Two bikes, four chords, and the truth
SXSW 2010: The band who wasn't there
Beach Fossils, Tanlines, Best Coast, and a wave of minimalism at SXSW
The big (moving) picture: SXSW 2010 in HD video
Freelance Whales, Sleigh Bells, Vivian Girls, Japandroids and more
The Big Hurt: What would Jesus download?
Who charted? Billboard's Top Christian Songs edition
Thomas Fehlmann | Gute Luft
Kompakt (2010)
What's new
BMOP, and the Christian Wolff festival

News

Fess Elisha Parker, 1924–2010
In memoriam
Flashback: Art After Hours
A review of Man Ray nightclub
Hallelujah!
Health-care reform is a new high-water mark
Hope against Hollywood
Letters to the Boston editor, March 26, 2010
Murph’s Last Grasp?
Can Stephen Murphy rally his troops one last time, or is this stab at higher office his last?

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Stuff it''
My cup runneth over
Pirates' ransom
The fun in Oregon is over, as east-coast athletes go on a kidnapping spree



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