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...with Alexander the Last, Swanberg and IFC Films set out to see if they could bridge this gulf. Under the old model, Swanberg would have taken the film to festivals to drum up interest among distributors and then waited a year or longer for a theatrical campaign to reach major cities. A few months later, the DVD would hit shelves in smaller markets. But with Alexander the Last, which opened in every major market via Festival Direct at midnight on Saturday - along with four other South by Southwest titles - Swanberg says he's eliminated the window between his festival screening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Film Festival Comes to Your Living Room | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...last solo effort. She’s made the metamorphosis from her more raucous indie-folk inspired early albums to a more mature singer-songwriter niche, but it’s not clear that the softer spirit allows her to express her full potential. The occasional ominous rumbling of drums or the wound-up melodrama of vibrating string sections hint at powerful release, but Mirah tends to fall back onto lovely but less memorable softness. Mirah’s restraint seems set on driving home the pessimism underlying so many of her songs, as when she sings...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mirah | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...roaring crowd. By the time he gleefully announces, “I’m gonna name drop!” excitement reaches a crescendo with a b-boy roll call and fantastic usage of The Incredible Bongo Band’s classic “Apache” drum break. DJ Kool, perhaps best known for the perennial party favorite “Let Me Clear My Throat,” is featured on “Here Comes My DJ.” “DJ ready? Dance floor ready? Everybody ready? Let?...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grandmaster Flash | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...task force's website, but while tickets for the Philadelphia meeting were distributed to labor and environmental groups, the task force did not accept questions from the audience. "If Biden and his team want to go into this [middle-class issue]," says Daniel Morris, communications director of the Drum Major Institute, a think tank that analyzes middle-class policy issues, "they're going to need to talk to real members of the middle class. There's no substitute for immediate intimate interaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...Everyday” could be a lost Belle & Sebastian track. “Another Reason to Go” is infused with rigorous bass and a funky horn riff that would not be out of place in a James Brown swagger, and a drum machine even shows up in “On the Other Side.” Vetiver has always had a knack for merry rollicking romps—“Amour Fou” from their 2004 self-titled debut comes to mind—though in “Tight Knit” tracks like...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vetiver | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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