It’s always a good time for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but something just feels right about seeing it in October. Maybe it’s because of the fabulous costumes or the midnight horror movie vibe, but those are just excuses to enjoy one of the very best things ever created by humanity. Seriously: Pyramids, The Colosseum, […]
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Riding On Mustangs with Boys
Unbranded documents an incredible journey
Unbranded is a documentary with a lot on its mind. On the surface level, it is an adventure about a group of young cowboys who train some mustangs and then ride them from the Mexican to the Canadian border. While their journey is an intense and fascinating one, the film also wants to shed light […]
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Surrealistic Fellows
Hot Tuna sings the blues
Hot Tuna could easily be described as legendary, but the often-overused word hardly contains what Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady have meant to music over the last half-century. As members of Jefferson Airplane, with Kaukonen on lead guitar and Casady on bass, they helped define psychedelic rock—a definition that hasn’t changed much since its inception. […]
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School of Guitar
Rooted in tradition, Bend Guitar Blast performs and teaches
Seattle’s Experimental Music Project (EMP) includes a museum of historical musical artifacts; among them, an evolutionary chain of instruments leading up to the modern day guitar. Everything from bowl harps to Stratocasters are on display, and placards delineating the instrument’s evolution; all told, a rather flat-noted way to show off one of the most dynamic, […]
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Thrice as Nice
Folksy trio Red Molly is three solo artists rolled into one first-class band
With nine solo albums between them—nine rich, rustic and, more importantly, successful solo albums—Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner and Molly Venter already have combined strong individual skills into sentimental harmonies and poetic bluegrass as Red Molly. The proof that collaboration was a smart move, even with already fruitful careers, will be showcased when the group plays […]