Quasi: American Gong

Recording: Three and out is the weird career pattern for Oregon’s Quasi. Th...... By Chris Drabick [3/3/2010]

Okapi: Love Him

Aural Pleasure: The sample-happy DJ label Illegal Art is no stranger to funny bu...... By Keith Gribbins [3/3/2010]

Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me

Aural Pleasure: Newsom’s third is a critic’s nightmare. Three CDs’, 18 songs’, t...... By Jeremy Martin [3/3/2010]

Our Sleeping Giant: Hardest Year to Date

Aural Pleasure: This 20-minute EP from Our Sleeping Giant seems to be a concept ...... By Jeremy Martin [3/3/2010]

Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back

Aural Pleasure: Throughout Peter Gabriel’s long career — first as the camouflaged frontman and creative catalyst...... By Brian Baker [2/24/2010]

Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine and the Art of Protest

Aural Pleasure: When Lennon died in 1980, the Reagan era began. When Rage Against the Machine broke up in 2000, ...... By Enrique Lopetegui [2/24/2010]

Tindersticks: Falling Down a Mountain

Aural Pleasure: Tindersticks mounted one of 2008’s most unexpected comebacks. Stuart Staples reconvened about ha...... By Chris Drabick [2/24/2010]

Johnny Cash: American VI: Ain't No Grave

Aural Pleasure: American VI, the supposed last official Johnny Cash release — at least until he’s inevi...... By Jeremy Martin [2/24/2010]

Priestess: Prior to the Fire

Aural Pleasure: Subtlety is a term not often applied to heavy music, but it is central to Montreal’s Priestess. ...... By Nicholas Hall [2/17/2010]

Massive Attack: Heligoland

Aural Pleasure: Massive Attack’s fifth album, Heligoland, comes seven years after the release of 100th Window. A...... By Jeremy Willets [2/17/2010]

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy: Every Man for Himself and God Against All

Aural Pleasure: This bleak, 30-minute instrumental opus from the Grasshopper Lies Heavy is like a stoned-drone P...... By Jeremy Martin [2/17/2010]

Hot Chip: One Life Stand

Aural Pleasure: If listening to Nickelback is like dating the captain of the football team, listening to Hot Chi...... By Danielle Sills [2/17/2010]

Eberhard Weber: Colours

Aural Pleasure: The CDs in this box — Yellow Fields, Silent Feet, and Little Movements — collect out-of-print wo...... By Carlo Wolff [2/10/2010]

We Leave at midnight: Record an EP

Aural Pleasure: This four-song release from We Leave at Midnight — all locals except for Austinite frontman John...... By Jeremy Martin [2/10/2010]

Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe 2

Aural Pleasure: Sequels are generally inferior to the original, and it’s no exception with Rob Zombie’s follow-u...... By Chris Parker [2/10/2010]

Midlake: The Courage of Others

Aural Pleasure: It’s not easy for a band to come up with a memorable sophomore album, so it was auspicious when ...... By Brian Baker [2/10/2010]

Express-News beats drum for $1-billion ocean desal

by: gharman on 3/15/2010

7.7 Cueca

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Napkin Notes: Queso Amazo

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Animal Wrongs

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Better than 40 for Life

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¡Ask a Mexican!

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Free Will Astrology

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Rode hard, put away wet

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Rave on

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Rode hard, put away wet: A quick tour of the eco-friendly, low-tech, community-oriented porn counterculture

Better than 40 for Life: 15 things you can do to actually prevent abortions

Death by inches: Why Eric Fonseca’s film won’t bring down the House

Never wanted you: The Coathangers demand you keep our hands to yourself

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