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Kristen is a punk

Bella is a runt

I kind of love Kristen Stewart. I didn’t always feel that way about the pouty Twilight actress. But I think one of the biggest reasons I relate to her more recently is that she’s been choosing characters with stellar taste in music.

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The keeper of the gems

Armed with her bouffant, GarageBand beats, backup dancers, and skintight gold costumes, Leslie Hall delivers campy dance tunes about zombies, Dairy Queen, and being glamorous. Full story

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Tequila Mockingbird

Tequila Mockingbird has been described as a genre-bending rock band, and it might be unclear what that statement means until you hear the whole album. The band’s new record Luck And Trouble certainly has something to offer for almost any rock fan because of the diversity of the songs.

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Christian Prommer

Boy, there are a lot of things you can do with your computer. One of them could be recording a drum lesson and burning it to a CD. Instead of including the CD with a how-to book, though, jazzy drumstick twirler Christian Prommer packages it nicely in the form of an album that is impossible to listen to.

One eskimO

You will like One eskimO’s self-titled album if you like one or more of the following things: early 90’s easy listening, Jason Mraz’s musical stylings at the age of 35, Keanu Reeves running shirtless through a forest in slow motion.

Megan Burtt

Here’s a terrible idea: take all the played-out guitar riffs, timing, melodies, drum hits, and cliché lyrics of the past 20 years of soft rock and make a new album with them.

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Concert Watch

More Cowbell

This week's picks of shows to see: Flobots, Pretty Lights, and more.

Hometown Pride: The Photo Atlas

If you haven’t made plans to go to SXSW, it’s probably too late to start. The cheap plane tickets and hotel rooms around the Austin music festival are likely already gone. But don’t fret—you can still attend a pre-SXSW concert featuring several bands from Denver en route to Austin.

Hometown Pride: Sweet Lunacy

Madness develops into more madness, and eventually into sweet lunacy. For UC Denver music business professor Chris Daniels, that’s what his movie is all about.

Show Report

Statewide Emergency @ Club 156

You might want to get familiar with Statewide Emergency. They may be the next big band out of Colorado.

Sarah Bettens @ The Toad Tavern

Sara Bettens (of moderately famous 90’s band K’s Choice) poured her heart out onstage at the Toad Tavern.

Double Penitentiary @ Bender's Tavern

Angular dance-rock bands: They’re a dime a dozen. I should know—I’m in one. So is the Advocate’s news editor, Theo Romeo. Actually, we’re in the same one. Our band is called Double Penitentiary, and what you’re about to read is a review of our show at Bender’s on Saturday, Feb. 20.

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