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B-Sides
Norse Code: Amon Amarth's Viking metal invades Pop's
By Phil Freeman
Published: April 8, 2009
It's easy to understand why Amon Amarth gains new fans on each U.S. tour. Starting with its fourth album, Versus the World (released in the United States in 2004), the Swedish...
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B-Sides
The Ol' Soft Shoe: Greg Osby and Willie Akins slip on a comfortable pair of "St. Louis Shoes"
By Dean C. Minderman
Published: April 8, 2009
Greg Osby says he may have first heard Willie Akins play the saxophone at the original incarnation of BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, or it may have been another St. Louis jazz club...
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Critics' Picks
Lucero
9 p.m.Thursday, April 9. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Jonah Bayer
Published: April 8, 2009
Lucero isn't the first group to mix punk rock's aggression with country's penchant for twang, but the Memphis, Tennessee, act has spent the last decade becoming the band of...
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Critics' Picks
Vedera/All-American Rejects
7 p.m. Thursday, April 9. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Jason Harper
Published: April 8, 2009
Success has not ruined Vedera. Nor has it tarnished the Kansas City quartet's youthful innocence. Once an all-ages local favorite, the band signed to Epic and shortly after...
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Critics' Picks
Diplo
8 p.m. Friday, April 10. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards.
By Dan LeRoy
Published: April 8, 2009
As a kid, Thomas Wesley Pentz was fascinated by dinosaurs and hoped to someday uncover their fossils. Yet while the Mississippi-born, Florida-raised, Philly-based DJ and...
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Critics' Picks
Audrey Auld
8 p.m. Tuesday, April 14. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Roy Kasten
Published: April 8, 2009
Audrey Auld's roots are in Tasmania, an exotic Australian isle that suggests nothing of the lissome singer's precise, terse lyrical style or her licentious way with vocal...
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Critics' Picks
The Takeover UK
9 p.m. Tuesday, April 14. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Shae Moseley
Published: April 8, 2009
The two little letters tacked onto the name of Pittsburgh's hottest rock & roll export, the Takeover UK, can confuse and also ruffle a lot of feathers. But it's a moot point...
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Critics' Picks
The Maine/Family Force 5/3OH!3
6 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
By Kelly Wilson
Published: April 8, 2009
The Maine has MySpace tweens and teens eating out of its hands. And can you blame the Tempe, Arizona, quintet? With its emo haircuts, skinny jeans, and songs filled with bouncy...
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Critics' Picks
Jacks Mannequin
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. Touhill Performing Arts Center, 1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road on the campus of University of Missouri-St. Louis.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: April 8, 2009
The arrival of spring — a time when the wistfulness of winter gives way to the promise of warmth and rebirth — is the perfect occasion to break out Jack's...
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Homespun
Homespun: The Orbz
Stop! The Reporters Will See
(self-released)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 8, 2009
The issue with Stop! The Reporters Will See isn't so much its quality as it is a lack of variety. The album's ten tracks follow a specific and well-trod formula —...
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Cafe
Dining Under the Influence: Downtown sure could use a standout Mexican restaurant. Is El Borracho it?
By Ian Froeb
Published: April 8, 2009
A colleague asked me to describe El Borracho, the four-month-old, self-styled "taqueria y cantina" at the intersection of Locust and North 20th streets. Off the top of my head,...
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Film
Scenes from a Mall: Seth Rogen's rent-a-cop rides the bipolar express in Observe and Report
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 8, 2009
Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That's...
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Stage
Not Just Another Pretty Face: Echo Theatre's The Ugly One is a beauty
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 8, 2009
Onyourmarkgetsetgo! The race is on at The Ugly One, a breathless 55-minute black-comedy sprint that leaves a viewer both exhausted and exhilarated. Echo Theatre Company's debut...
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Art
Featured Review: American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon
By Jessica Baran
Published: April 8, 2009
American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon These oblique photographs of unpopulated interiors capture the peculiar poetics of immemorial interior spaces occupied by the...
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Stage
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold
Published: April 8, 2009
Also Reviewed Back of the Throat In an unidentified large city, two out-of-control government interrogators arrive at the modest apartment of a young Arab American writer. He...
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Art
St. Louis Art Capsules
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene
By Jessica Baran
Published: April 8, 2009
Newly Reviewed American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon Reviewed in this issue. In Sight: Selections from the Collection This is not your usual survey of canonical...
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