August 2008
Story By Allison Candreva
Photos By Amanda Kelecy
As I waited in the front of Anthem Tattoo Parlor, flipping through magazines, the sound of buzzing tattoo machines resonated from the back. My adrenaline was rushing, my palms were sweating and my heart was pounding.
By Maximiliano Benitez, August 2008
On Aug. 12, HBO will release the DVD of the fifth and final season of The Wire, a fictional television drama about the criminal cases investigated by a unit of the Baltimore police department. Viewers and critics alike often refer to The Wire as “the best television show ever produced.”
By Shamrock McShane, August 2008
There are always two plays going on at once. There’s the play on stage – what you see while you’re sitting in the audience - and there is the play backstage - where the players are.
Review By William McKeen, August 2008
Book By Ian Vasquez
St. Martin’s, 256 pages, hardcover, $27.95
The world could use another Travis McGee right now. In the two decades since he’s been gone, we’ve profoundly missed writer John D. Macdonald’s “knight errant” and salvage expert. He wasn’t a detective in any classic sense. He was just a good, decent man people went to when they needed justice.
By Elizabeth Leva, August 2008
More than a decade ago, lashing musical and individual personalities sent two budding musicians in two different bands in search of change.
By Jake Crown, August 2008
Orquid, Sound Study Recordings
I haven’t taken Liquid Limbs’ debut full-length Orquid out of my crappy CD player since I got my grubby hands on a burned copy at The Atlantic at 1 am.
By Matt Walker, August 2008
Empty Rooms, Hawthorne Street Records
It’s difficult to classify the music on Suicide Note’s third full-length, which is a good thing. The band’s roots lie in the screaming, metal-driven hardcore of the late ‘90s, but they have constantly challenged that genre and have ultimately surpassed its boundaries.
By Fred Sowder, August 2008
Comeback Cadillac, Esperanza Plantation
For a young band hailing from Jackson, Miss., The Weeks have certainly attained a wealth of great rock influences.
By Fred Sowder, August 2008
Small-Time Answering Machine Mixtape, Self-released
As a post-release free treat to his fans, CWL mastermind Jason Drake has released a 32-minute treatise of electronica-meets-folk rock.
By Jimmy Newlin, August 2008
The Supreme Genius of King Kahn and the Shrines, Vice Records
King Khan and the Shrines are the greatest of the garage-revival acts, and I’d say so to Anton Newcombe’s face and then blow him a raspberry.
