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        Smashed Gladys...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Elektra This completely overlooked New York sleaze-rock outfit took the '80s Sunset Strip look and sound to ridiculously hyperbolic extremes and threw in a little Guns N' Roses-style streetwise danger along the way. Like Faster Pussycat, Smashed Gladys was better -- and more influenced by bluesier glam forebears such as Aersomith and T-Rex -- than most of the acts it emulated and was overshadowed by. But the best part about this, the group's only album, is simply reveling in the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        The Pixies...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      MVD Does the world really need another Pixies DVD? The iconic alt-group's '04 reunion has already been exhaustively chronicled. But nothing so far has captured the four personalities involved as intimately as this beautifully rendered film, which follows the band from its initial regrouping and rehearsals through the end of the first tour. The tentativeness between the members during their offstage hours is often incredibly uncomfortable; at one point, bassist Kim Deal's sister Kelley tells her, "I've never seen four
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        Ten just ain't enough for Harrell's weepy top spins of 2006...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Ah, my last end-of-the-year Top 10 as a Creative Loafing staffer. Get out your tissues. Get out your own best-of-'06 list. Or, if you're a total hipster douche bag, just get pissed that I left The Decemberists, TV on The Radio and Joanna Newsom off the roll call. 1. The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) Arguably the best bar band in the world and certainly the smartest. With their third record of anthemic riffs, Springsteenian vibes and
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        Sheila Kirsten Hughes Band...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Nubzilla Hughes excels at writing and singing the sort of Lilith Fair Generation-influenced material that owned the airwaves during the mid-to-late '90s, and continues to blur the lines between folk, roots, pop and Adult Contemporary styles. Her liquid voice is perfect for the quiet-but-clear verses that build to comparatively stately crescendos during a majority of these tunes, and the understated arrangements that accompany those melodies. Beyond the moody strings she and husband Chris contribute, however, little about Perspectives sets it
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    <title>Farewell tour</title>
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        The Top 10 to end all Top 10s (at least written by this guy)...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Well, it's been 10 years and a thousand tears, and look at the mess I'm in. Actually, it's been nearly six years and around 239 tears, and I'm fairly mess-free these days. But I can't ignore the itchy-footed feeling that says I need to move on. And I can't think of a more appropriate time to take my leave than the holiday season, as the New Year delicately opens itself to me like one of those Georgia O'Keeffe paintings of
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    <title>Go thee and lubricate</title>
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        How to throw an office Christmas party the staff won't despise...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Everyone thinks their annual office holiday party sucks -- or so goes the clich&eacute;. I don't know whether that attitude is all-pervasive. But I do know that most of my party-seasoned friends whose occupations don't exactly qualify as living their dreams abhor the approach of the Christmas party. That stands to reason -- once you've seen a homeless dude puke on a couple of fist-fighting lesbians and had to crawl out of the tiny window in some ladies' room because
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Not A Photograph: The Mission of Burma</title>
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        The Mission of Burma...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      MVD Admit it: Mission of Burma is one of those bands you know next to nothing about, but you nod and say they rule whenever their name comes up. It's cool; you're not alone. If everyone who claimed to love this seminal Boston art-punk band actually owned the group's records, Mission of Burma's members would be rich -- and they're not. But do yourself a favor and check out this straightforward doc about the group's reunion after two decades of
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    <title>Gaze into the crystal ball</title>
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        A month-by-month look at music for 2007...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      JANUARY National: Retro-wave trendstarters Interpol release their first album for major label Capitol Records. It is critically derided as "overly She Wants Revenge-esque" and "lacking a certain Springsteenian warmth." The group breaks up after a brief tour; three of the four members become club DJs within a week. Local: Bands that still sound like Korn begin to disappear from the Bay area scene and are slowly replaced one-for-one by bands that sound like the first Killers album. FEBRUARY National: Reactivated
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    <title>Light Yourself on Fire</title>
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        Light Yourself on Fire...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Kiss of Death Seven songs. Fourteen minutes. It goes without saying that Bay area punk-metal outfit Light Yourself on Fire -- which features alumni from Scrog, Reversal of Man, Omega Man and The Guff, to name but a few -- doesn't fuck around. Equal parts Prong, Unsane and death metal, LYoF kicks your ass quickly, then leaves you wondering what the hell happened. Matt Coplon's monotone-grunt vocals are a weak point, which is a shame, because the lyrics are well
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>It&amp;#39;s out of my life</title>
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        A couch finally wears out its welcome...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      People can get attached to the weirdest shit. Cars. Articles of clothing. Freakin' cookware. Furniture. I know folks who've lugged the same desk or battered sofa or papasan chair from dorm to apartment to house since college. Not because they need it and can't afford to buy another one, but because they love it. Like it's a pet. So the mattresses and coffee tables and armoires come and go over the years, and that one piece of furniture that can't
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Along the same line</title>
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        Like their well-known forebears, Athens-based Modern Skirts trade in quality pop-rock...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Athens, Ga., is pretty much synonymous with Southeastern left-of-center rock and pop -- college rock, as we used to call it back when university radio stations sustained the underground. R.E.M. The B-52's. Pylons. Love Tractor. The town's '80s-originated reputation as a mecca for quality music continued up through the '90s -- think Five Eight, Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power and, uh, Widespread Panic -- to today's crop of hometown names, including Of Montreal, Southern Bitch, Jucifer, Bad Wizard and, perhaps
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Can&amp;#39;t Make You Happy</title>
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        Geri X...
       
      
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      Mekka This 12-track effort from the young woman we named the best singer-songwriter in the Bay area this year more than delivers on the potential showcased by her usually less-orchestrated live sets, which often find her performing solo. Plenty of the tunes on Can't Make You Happy consist solely of Geri X's intimate acoustic guitar and expressive voice -- and she doesn't need more to shine -- but more fleshed-out songs like "Sinister," "Drowning is Romantic" and "Leapfrog" are particular
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    <title>Have you tried leeches?</title>
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        Lemme tell you how to get rid of that cold ......
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      When I was a kid, there was only one preventative measure the members of my family took when cold-and-flu season rolled around, whether we were living in Ogden, Utah or Montgomery, Ala., or Virginia Beach: We wore more clothing. And when one of us did get sick, there were only two courses of treatment practiced in the household. The first involved aspirin, cough syrup, Campbell's soup, Sprite, orange juice, bed rest and endless daytime reruns of The Andy Griffith Show
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Clearing The Eye</title>
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        ISIS...
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      To really enjoy Isis' oceanic, tension-and-release art-metal, you've got to immerse yourself in it. Unfortunately, the audio accompanying the '00s-spanning performances collected here simply isn't up to the task; it's better than bootleg or soundboard quality, but never really translates the alternating hugeness and subtlety of the band's sound to satisfying effect. A full set captured in Australia circa Feb. '05 comes closest and makes Clearing The Eye a document that fans will want to check out (as does the
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    <title>On the Verge</title>
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        Drag The River may be poised to transcend its cult-phenom status....
       
      
        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      The last time Drag The River played the Bay area, an oddly timed booking found them in Ybor City amid of the annual populists' quaff-and-stumble that is Guavaween. Not exactly an ideal gig for a bunch of punk heroes turned strum-rock troubadours. "Guavaween? It was a little weird," allows frontman Chad Price. "The fact that there were a million people around and five people in the bar watching us play, it was a little strange. But it was interesting --
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