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Night & Day
A Fistful of Hollers
Screw green grass, give us the blue stuff
By Steve Jansen
Published: June 5, 2008
Just because we ain’t got the Great Smoky Mountains and fields of Kentucky bluegrass in this here desert don’t mean we ain’t got folks playing a bunch of...
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Night & Day
Rhythm Method
It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but we like it
By Niamh Wallace
Published: June 5, 2008
Everyone knows the rock ’n’ roll origin story: Enterprising white dudes mine black music (rhythm and blues in particular) for profit. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller...
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Night & Day
ASU Baseball Hosts Super Regional
Published: June 5, 2008
The winner of this best-of-three series between ASU and Fresno States earns a date in Omaha for the College World Series. Sat., June 7, 6 p.m.; Sun., June 8, 7 p.m.;...
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The Bird
The Bird poops on a crowd of 9/11 deniers and reports on the latest symbolic protest of Joe Arpaio
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: June 5, 2008
CRACKPOT KAREN Like Larry King or the species of common cockroach, the 9/11 "troof" crowd will never completely croak. Just when you think these cretinous mental cousins of...
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Fenske
Andrew Thomas spends public money to bring sinners to Christ
By Sarah Fenske
Published: June 5, 2008
The number one purpose of the Missionette program, according to its Web site, is "to win girls to Jesus Christ through love and acceptance." It's the Girl Scouts, only...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, June 5, 2008
Published: June 5, 2008
FED UP WITH JOE Doddering Joe: Whatever you think of Joe Arpaio, the codger's too old to be sheriff of Maricopa County. At almost 76 (he'd be 80 by the end of his next term!),...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on interracial dating and overwhelming prejudice
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 5, 2008
First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm Mexicans....
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Music
When every song ever recorded fits on your MP3 player, will you listen to any of them?
By Karla Starr
Published: June 5, 2008
There was a time when I knew what I wanted to listen to. I was poor, but I bought CDs anyway, and I had stacks of them, purchased with enthusiasm and knowledge shared among...
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Shrapnel
Pharrell Williams puts music ahead of money by going back on tour with N.E.R.D.
By Michael Roberts
Published: June 5, 2008
Pharrell Williams is so in-demand as a producer that every time he tours with N.E.R.D., his most consistently weird project, he probably costs himself money. But in the days...
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Shrapnel
Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner critiques the critics of his new album The Lucky Ones
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: June 5, 2008
Seattle rock heroes Mudhoney — the last band standing from the grunge era — celebrate their 20th anniversary this year with a new studio album, The Lucky Ones. On...
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Booze Pig
Booze Pig transforms into the mythical White Stag
By C.M. Redding
Published: June 5, 2008
I thought I'd never write about kegger house parties. I mean, I went to school in Wisconsin. But the other night, after pounding my fifth Stag press (a concoction served up at...
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Listen Up
Riz MC
Confirm/Ignore
(Battered Records)By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 5, 2008
Sometimes, the assholes in charge of dishing out work visas make mistakes. When British rapper Riz MC (who's Muslim and of Pakistani descent) tried coming to the United States...
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Listen Up
The Architects
Vice
(Anodyne)By Jason Harper
Published: June 5, 2008
Hardworking, broken-backed, sweaty-headed, scruffy-looking Kansas Citians the Architects have never tried to win over folks with much more than relentless punk-drenched rock...
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Listen Up
Robyn
Robyn
(Konichiwa/Cherrytree/ Interscope)By Michael Gallucci
Published: June 5, 2008
Way back in 1996, Robyn reached the Top 10 with "Do You Know (What It Takes)." She followed it up a year later with another big hit, "Show Me Love." Then she disappeared. This...
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Live Wire
Frog Eyes
By Chris Parker
Published: June 5, 2008
All the idiosyncratic jangling, clattering carnival-esque swooning, and arch melodrama suggests Tom Waits Malkoviched into David Bowie's body. Frontman Carey Mercer's vocals...
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Live Wire
Aceyalone, and Dilated Peoples
By Chris Parker
Published: June 5, 2008
Both acts trace their origins to early-'90s Los Angeles, but Aceyalone was the first to jump off. He helped found Freestyle Fellowship, which was just starting to get lift when...
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Live Wire
Peter Murphy
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 5, 2008
Deemed "the Godfather of Goth," Peter Murphy built the paradigm for surly, baritone-voiced broodfests. When the English singer broke through the London gloom-tune scene in the...
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Live Wire
Soilent Green
By Will York
Published: June 5, 2008
Louisiana's Soilent Green has been one of the best things about the wild world of modern extreme metal over the past decade. The band has also remained one of the genre's...
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Needle Exchange
1... 2... 3... 4!!!
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 5, 2008
Mark LaRue is a double-duty DJ. When the 32-year-old isn't spinning rump-shaking Nickelback or Wyclef jams for the exotic dancers of Bourbon Street Circus, he's dropping punk...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: June 5, 2008
THURSDAY 5 Armitage Bistro: RE:WINE'D with DJ Seduce (downbeat, jazz, soul, house) Axis-Radius: Divine Ladies Night (Top 40) Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with...
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