Small-town Grand Junction, Colorado, comes out in droves to Slamming Bricks 2023, as our beloved queer community event eclipses its beginnings to command its largest audience yet. Liz Weiss reviews the performance, a bittersweet farewell both to and from the Grand Valley’s most mouthy rebel organizer, Caleb Ferganchick.

The small beach town of Cocoa, Florida, was recently a sold-out stop on the Sublime with Rome and Dirty Heads Summer 2023 tour — and the most fun Elise Norman has had all summer.

Following the shocking and heartbreaking passing of music icon Jimmy Buffett last weekend, Christopher Long found himself (once again) perusing near-endless used record bins at a beachside Florida thrift joint, where he stumbled upon a pristine copy of Son of a Son of a Sailor, Buffett’s classic 1978 LP — for just $10.

Birdsongs of the American West. Review by Judy Craddock.

Pixies: Kid Tested, Mother Approved. Saturday night in Vail, Liz and Jackie Weiss were just a couple of cool kids on a pretty sweet road trip that ended up at Frank Black’s feet.

Gov’t Mule tackles Dark Side of The Mule at iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, with Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening paying homage to his famous father. Michelle Wilson soaks up the second half of a bucket-list adventure.

Author Andrea Janov shares memories of living in the New York City fast lane in the early 2000s with Short Skirts and Whiskey Shots: Tales of Nights I Shouldn’t Have Made it Home Alive. Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Amy Yates Wuelfing collects stories from the professional drinkers who hung out at John and Peter’s in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in Still Drinkin’ & Smokin’ Rockin’ & Rollin’. Carl F. Gauze reviews.

Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.

Phil Bailey reviews the curious 1971 British public school thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo, now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video.

Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).

Spunky (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Dream In Dream (Warner Music Japan). Review by Steven Cruse.

The Beggar (Mute / Young God Records ). Review by Steven Cruse.

Ghost of Vroom 3 (Mod y Vi). Review by Judy Craddock.

Sometimes you’ve got to look back several decades to discover fresh “new” music. And this week, Christopher Long stumbles accidentally upon a true vinyl treasure — a clean copy of Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, the critically acclaimed 1968 sophomore set from Laura Nyro — for only three bucks!

This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.