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American Idiot

American Idiot

Archikulture Digest

Punk rock takes the stage in a teen angst revolution against…whatever kids are revolting against today.

Hair

Hair

Archikulture Digest

Boundaries get pushed to the limit in this revival of the classic hippie musical from 1967.

Louder Than Love – The Grande Ballroom Story

Louder Than Love – The Grande Ballroom Story

Screen Reviews

Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.

Robin’s Blue

Robin’s Blue

Print Reviews

A young woman runs away from home, has a series of unhappy relationships, falls into professional sex and cocaine, and then cleans up and enters culinary school.

Lemonheads

Event Reviews

The Lemonheads run through their 1992 opus It’s a Shame About Ray for Matthew Moyer and an excited Jacksonville audience.

David Bowie: Rare and Unseen

Screen Reviews

Lost footage of David Bowie highlights awkward interviews and a general astonishment by the press at his constantly changing persona. Heh heh.

Superf*ckers

Print Reviews

James Kochalka’s Superf*ckers is a raunchy, dark, proudly toilet-humored takedown of every superhero team going. Matthew Moyer recommends you keep this one out of kids’ reach.

Crosby, Stills and Nash

Print Reviews

This deluxe anniversary edition of Dave Zimmer’s exhaustive CSN (and Y!) history offers a good many clues as to what exactly killed the hippie dream, thinks Matthew Moyer.

Bill Hicks: Better Live than Dead

Minority Report

Shelton Hull takes a long look at the fiery performances of Bill Hicks and sees both comedy’s last outlaw and a prophetic Texan who understood the danger of myth and symbols.

Devil’s Midnight

Print Reviews

Love and death and Satanism play out against the bloody background of the Russian Revolution, and Carl F Gauze was there.

Brujeria

Music Reviews

Exios Mex-tremos: Mextremist/Greatest Hits (Kool Arrow). Review by David Lee Beowulf.

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Slamming Bricks 2023

Slamming Bricks 2023

Event Reviews

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.

Grand Valley – Issue 002

Grand Valley – Issue 002

Issues
The October 2023 issue of our printed edition, focused on the music and culture of Western Colorado's Grand Valley. Available free at Triple Play Records in downtown Grand Junction.
Garage Sale Vinyl: Linda Ronstadt

Garage Sale Vinyl: Linda Ronstadt

Garage Sale Vinyl

This week, Christopher Long nearly fights a famed rock star in defense of his 1970s pin-up princess. To prove his point, Chris goes into his own garage and digs out his musty vinyl copy of the self-titled 1972 alt. country classic from Linda Ronstadt.

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Archikulture Digest

A former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.

Garage Sale Vinyl: KISS, The Solo Albums

Garage Sale Vinyl: KISS, The Solo Albums

Garage Sale Vinyl

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.