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Issue: May 7, 2009
Page: 3
54 stories found - 41 through 54
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  1. Interview

    After a wild youth on Kansas City’s East Side and run-ins with the law, Ronald White reinvents himself as the lyrically brilliant Ron Ron

    By Kyle Koch
    Published: May 7, 2009

    For a long time, Ronald White's thoughts of a career in rap music had given way to much simpler life goals: staying alive and out of prison. Faced with two counts of...

  2. Buckle Bunny

    In the studio with Jeriney, goddess of KRBZ 96.5’s Homegrown Buzz

    By Crystal K. Wiebe
    Published: May 7, 2009

    If you're a musician in Kansas City with any desire to hear yourself on the local alternative FM airwaves, you know the name Jeriney. It belongs to a 27-year-old,...

  3. CD Reviews

    Devil Blare

    Here Comes the Winter
    (Murder In the Living Room Records)

    By Jason Harper
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Released late last year, Here Comes the Winter completes the two-part cycle that Devil Blare began earlier in '08 with the release of his debut solo record, The Journeyman. The...

  4. Critic's Choice

    Detroit Cobras

    By Elliott Johnston
    Published: May 7, 2009

    The Detroit Cobras have so much sexy, swaggering fun laying down the bare bones of early '60s rock and roll, soul and R&B that the fact they're a cover band lies somewhere...

  5. Critic's Choice

    Fleetwood Mac

    By Chris Parker
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Fleetwood Mac's mid-'70s success so dwarfed its prior work that most people have been unaware that the band underwent several lineup changes and released 10 albums prior to the...

  6. Critic's Choice

    My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

    By Chris Parker
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Like John Waters kidnapped by Marilyn Manson and held hostage in a dilapidated dance club on the edge of town, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult is a campy, over-the-top,...

  7. Critic's Choice

    Richard Buckner

    By Richard Gintowt
    Published: May 7, 2009

    With lyrics that read like e.e. cummings poems and a husky voice that cracks on key, Richard Buckner has been a model of consistency during his nearly 20-year career. Relying...

  8. Critic's Choice

    Dead Rock West

    By Richard Gintowt
    Published: May 7, 2009

    No Depression magazine famously explained its area of interest as "alternative country (whatever that is)." The whatever part is still going strong, thanks to bands such as...

  9. Cafe

    The Golden Ox: still no bull

    By Charles Ferruzza
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Editor’s note: At press time, the Golden Ox was recovering from a Monday, May 4, fire. Pat Paton, Golden Ox publicist, told Charles Ferruzza Monday night,...

  10. Film

    Star Trek

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It's difficult for this longtime Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams' relaunch of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It's difficult to dispassionately dole out compliments and complaints per the...

  11. Film

    Fados

    By Nick Pinkerton
    Published: May 7, 2009

    The fado is a dolorous folk-song tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and contemplating a roiling black Atlantic. It...

  12. Film

    Is Anybody There?

    By Nicolas Rapold
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Director John Crowley's lighter follow-up to the anguished Boy A features a standard teaming of reluctant oldster and troubled youngster — both residents of a...

  13. Film

    Lymelife

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Published: May 7, 2009

    There's nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martini's Lymelife, whose weighty allegorical title and fastidious 1970s accoutrements aim to...

  14. Film

    Paris 36

    By Melissa Anderson
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Christophe Barratier follows up his equally pandering The Chorus (2004) with an aggressively nostalgic, tinny homage to French musicals of the 1930s and '40s. To distract...

Issue: May 7, 2009
Page: 3
54 stories found - 41 through 54
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