Jun 7-13, 2006
The Music Issue: Burlington’s Jazz Guys Kick Out the Jams and Stomp On Them; Starline Rhythm Boys On the Political Beat; The Green Mountain Mahler Festival Pumps Up the Volume
Pulse Prophets, Madhouse
(Self-released, CD) The cover art of Madhouse, by central Vermont’s Pulse Prophets, shows the Earth in a state of disarray, with missiles, fires, mushroom clouds and a giant Band-Aid holding the planet together. Its flipside depicts Saddam, Osama and Dubya as the speak-, hear- and see-no-evil monkeys. So what should we do when the inmates…
News Quirks 06.07.06
Curses, Foiled Again Police in Broken Arrow, Okla., arrested James Otis Denham, 49, after he tried to sell a Rembrandt etching at a bar. The rightful owner’s name was still on a document authenticating the 1630 etching, titled “The Raising of Lazarus” and valued at $6000. An art collector who met Denham at the bar…
The Budos Band, The Budos Band
(Daptone Records, CD) Staten Island, New York’s The Budos Band are an 11-piece Afro-soul act with a gloriously robust sound. Their self-titled debut features 11 instrumentals loaded with gooey grooves and penetrating melodies. The band got its start in an after-school jazz ensemble at a local community center. Enamored by such old-school soul and Afro-beat…
FREEDOMLAND**
Samuel Jackson and Julianne Moore star in Richard (Sea of Love) Price’s adaptation of his own novel concerning the interracial tensions surrounding a kidnapping and murder. Edie Falco costars. (112 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/freedomland/hd/
DATE MOVIE*
From the writers of the horror-parody Scary Movie comes this parody of romantic comedies featuring Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard and Allyson Hannigan. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer direct. (80 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/datemovie/
