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Thursday, December 6, 2007 | The Red a Black
CRITICS’ CORNER REVIEWI REMINDING YOU ABOUT ALL THAT CULTURAL [EARNIN' YOU DID THIS SEMESTER
YOUR NEW FAVORITE BAND IN REVIEW
Keeping up with the favorites in ’OB
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Releasing debut full-length
album on XL Recordings January 2008, playing
Langerado 2008
TOKYO POLICE CLUB - Releasing debut full-length
album on Saddle Creek Records, touring spring 2008
KATE NASH selling out her entire fall tour of .Europe
and the UK, one of Rolling Stone’s 10 Artists to Watch
in 2008
THE DEADLY SYNDROME - Showcasing at NYC’s
CMJ conference, SPIN.com Artist of the Day, gathering
critical acclaim for “The Ortolan”
CALVIN HARRIS - Selling out his American debut per
formance at NYC’s Mercury Lounge, MTV 2 “Best of
Subterranean” nominee
BLITZEN TRAPPER - Filming a quirky music video for
“Wild Mountain Nation,” touring Europe
HONN REGAN - Photographed by Annie Leibovitz for
Vanity Fair magazine, making the rounds on American
late-night talk shows
1990 - Touring with Art Bmt & The Hold Steady,
touring with Voxtrot, licensing “See You At The Lights”
in anew Payless commercial
RA RA RIOT - Holding Dec. 15 benefit concert for
deceased drummer John Pike in Boston with Vampire
Weekend & Tokyo Police Club
GREENSKEEPERS - Touring overseas, making up more
dances while wearing karate uniforms and funny jack
ets
BISHOP ALLEN -Touring with John Vanderslice, rock
ing NPR’s Live Music Concert Series, playing Europe
DELTA SPIRIT - Touring with Dr. Dog, opening for Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah on sold out dates in DC, Philly,
and NYC
THROW ME THE STATUE Touring with Jens
Lenkman, getting heavy rotation on college stations
and NPR affiliates
AXE RIVERBOY - Rocking a moustache, filming a video
for “Carry On,” keeping Americans waiting for his
arrival
Sami Promisloff
listen up! / the good, the bad, the ugly
EXQUISITE, EXCELLENT ESSENTIALS.
Mark Ronson, “Version”
Okkervil River, The Stage Names”
Minus The Bear, “Planet of Ice"
Right of the Conchords, “The Distant
Future" EP
Kanye West, “Graduation”
Iron & Wine, The Shepherd's Dog”
Band of Horses, “Cease To Begin”
Beirut, The Flying Club Cup"
Eddie Vedder, “Into The Wild”
Soundtrack
Radiohead, “In Rainbows”
“I’m Not There” Soundtrack
The Killers, “Sawdusf
Sigur R6s, “Hvarf/Heim"
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MIDDLE OF THE ROAD MUSIC.
Ben Harper, “Lifeline”
Animal Collective, “Strawberry Jam”
Rogue Wave, “Asleep at Heaven’s
Gate”
KT Tunstall, “Drastic Fantastic”
Stars, “In Our Bedroom After The
War"
Foo Fighters, “Echoes Silence
Patience and Grace"
Bruce Springsteen, “Magic"
The Darjeeling Limited” Soundtrack
Ween, “La Cucaracha”
Jay-Z, “American Gangster”
Amy Winehouse, “Frank"
Alicia Keys, “As I Am”
YOUR NEW
FAVORITE SINGLE
The unforgettable tunes that
had me hooked from
first spin.
► “Mansard Roof - Vampire
Weekend
>- “A-Punk” - Vampire
Weekend
► “Nature of the Experiment’
- Tokyo Police Club
>- “Citizens of Tomorrow” -
Tokyo Police Club
>■ “Foundations” - Kate Nash
► “Eucalyptus” - The Deadly
Syndrome
► “I Hope I Become A Ghost”
- The Deadly Syndrome
► “Disco Heat" - Calvin Harris
■ “Acceptable in the ’80s” -
Calvin Harris
► The Girls” - Calvin Harris
► “Wild Mountain Nation” -
Blitzen Trapper
► “Sci-Fi Kid” - Blitzen
Trapper
► “Black Water Child” - Fionn
Regan
>• “Risque Pictures” - 1990s
► “Cult Status” - 1990s
► “Each Year” - Ra Ra Riot
>• “A Manner To Act” - Ra Ra
Riot
► “Polo Club” -
Greenskeepers
>- “Click Click Click Click” -
Bishop Allen
► Trashcan" - Delta Spirit
► “Lolita” - Throw Me The
Statue
► “Roundabout” - Axe
Riverboy
DON’T REALUf DARE.
Backstreet Boys “Unbreakable"
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OUT & ABOUT
Wrapping up this year’s films
“No Country for Old Men”
The Coen brothers return to their more provoca
tive roots with their best work since “Fargo” in this
juggernaut of a thriller that packs a scorching con
demnation on the futility of violence. The ideal team
to bring the quirks of Cormac McCarthy’s novel to
the screen, the Coens somehow manage to find
laughs amidst all the carnage.
“The Assassination of Jesse Janies
by the Coward Robert Ford”
Billed as a western, but in reality a rebuttal of the
genre's archetypes, “Assassination” disappeared from
theaters faster than Lindsay Lohan from rehab. You
owe it to yourself to see Australian director Andrew
Dominik’s lurid vision of the old west, which serves as
an appraisal of our celebrity crazed culture.
“Control”
Rather than playing like an extended concert,
Anton Corbijn’s film focuses on the artist and not the
music, in this case Joy Division frontman lan Curtis.
Armed with minimalist but awe-inducing cinematog
raphy, “Control” is a bleak, emotionally shattering
tribute to yet another artist whose musical inspiration
led to their demise.
“Grindhouse”
A tounge-in-cheek homage to a period of our
most deliciously bad cinema, buddies Quentin
Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez craft the most
enjoyable movie-going experience of the year. For
those looking for substance, the double billing of fluff
may leave them empty, but it's certainly a fitting con
trast to movies of today that are just as gratuitous
and expect a serious audience response.
“Sicko”
Michael Moore mostly shuns his less than objec
tive tactics for his most piercing documentary (I use
that term loosely) to date. Sure, he makes the health
systems of France and Great Britain look like utopian
palaces, but he overwhelmingly documents the mess
that is our health care system.
“Zodiac”
David Fincher’s take
on the Zodiac killer is
equally impressive as a
thriller and a procedural.
However, the Zodiac kill
ings themselves are a
mere McGuffin for
Fincher, who is more con
cerned with obsession
and its potential to seep
into all arenas of our
lives.
“Into the Wild”
Sean Penn dons his directorial skills once again
to bring us the story of Christopher McCandless, the
Emory graduate who spurned civilization to trudge
through the Alaskan wilderness to his premature
death. Emile Hirsch delivers a career-defining por
trayal of the maverick on the cusp of manhood in this
strangely optimistic film.
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“Margot at the Wedding”
A fitting companion piece to his cult favorite, The
Squid and the Whale", director Noah Baumbach
proves once again that venom is thicker than blood.
He reigns in the laugh-out-loud humor and excess
quirkiness for a poignant portrait of family dysfunction.
“Fred Claus”
The newest of holiday tales, ‘Fred Claus" exam-
ines a different side to
the classic tale of St.
Nick, answering the
burning question, ‘what if
Santa had a big broth
er?” The film has funny
moments and decent
performances, along with
the typically touching
ending. Not as funny as
Will Ferrell’s “Eif” but a
much better try at a
Christmas flick than
recent attempts (think
“Deck the Halls”).
“Rendition”
The story explores the controversial idea of
“extraordinary rendition,” enacted during the Clinton
era, which allows those believed to have involvement
with terrorists to be taken with no record for question
ing. The top-notch acting holds the film together and
keeps the audience invested in all of these stories.
Director Gavin Hood enlightens and tugs at emotions.
“We Own the Night”
“We Own the Night” stars Joaquin Phoenix, Eva
Mendes, Mark Wahlberg and Robert Duvall. With an
all-star cast like this, the film should impress critics
and audiences alike. Unfortunately, the star wattage
isn’t enough. Does the film continue to hold your
attention? Maybe. Is the movie an inventive and well
written piece of cinema? No.
“The Kingdom”
A terrorist group attacks and bombs a softball
game on an American compound in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. As emergency crews begin a clean-up, anoth
er bomb is detonated, killing an FBI agent. The
Kingdom” doesn’t disappoint with action and enter
tains without taking sides in an angled political arena.
“Eastern Promises”
“Eastern Promises” revolves around Tatiana, a
young pregnant girl who hemorrhages in a local phar
macy. The only identification of Tatiana is a small
diary filled with her Russian writings and a card link
ing her to the head of the London sect of the crime
group Vory V Zakone. Come Oscar season, this con
suming character study will be showered with nomi
nations.
“Shoot ’em Up”
It’s hard to enjoy watching a baby be shot at, left
on bathroom floors and thrown around during shoot
outs for 90 minutes. Full of cliches and insipid dia
logue, “Shoot ’em Up" tries hard for humor. Nothing is
supposed to be serious, but shouldn’t something be
enjoyable?
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