Crunk Kashmere
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsIt sounds like an inspirational Hollywood drama: In 1969, a jazz saxophonist takes a job teaching music at a destitute high school in inner-city [...]
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Blood and Noodles
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsBack in 1984, two unknown ironists from Minnesota made one of the quintessential Texas movies. In Blood Simple, the Coen brothers captured the spirit [...]
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Denizens of Denton
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsAs the 21st century began, the music industry was inching its way toward a classic-rock revival, with underground bands like the White Stripes reacquainting [...]
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Lone Star Sundance
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsThis past December, the new director of the Sundance Film Festival, John Cooper, told The New York Times that the watchword for this year’s [...]
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Spoon Fed
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsWhen the Austin indie-rock band Spoon released their first LP, Telephono, in 1996, they were acolytes of the Pixies’ raucous aesthetic; every one of [...]
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