Oct 05, 2013
Live
Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm took the stage at the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles on Tuesday night with one simple request to the lighting engineer: that the moody pink and blue colored lights be replaced with a single white spotlight.
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Oct 04, 2013
Live
CHVRCHES
CHVRCHES thrilled to a near-packed house in Philadelphia.
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Oct 04, 2013
Comic Books
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
Followers of comics writer Alex DeCampi’s Twitter will find her occasionally grumbling about her lack of paid work in comics. Her career-sized output coupled with her hobby-sized income is an even deeper injustice when one considers the quality of her work, and Smoke/Ashes may in fact be her best.
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Oct 04, 2013
Music
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While much has been said about HAIM (including comparisons to TLC and the use of the puzzling phrase “esoteric pop”), it’s Stevie Nicks and gang who have seemed to haunt nearly every piece of press since we first wrapped our ears around the Forever EP in February of last year.
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NBC, Thursdays 9/8 Central
Oct 03, 2013
TV
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Sean (Sean Hayes), a Chicago manager at an online retail company, is gay and years-divorced from the mother of their 14-year-old daughter, Ellie (Samantha Isler).
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CBS, Thursdays 8:30/7:30 Central
Oct 03, 2013
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Divorced newscaster Nathan Miller (Will Arnett) and former teenage mom Debbie (Jayma Mays) are siblings. Their parents, Carol and Tom (Margo Martindale, Beau Bridges), are forced to leave their home after Tom floods their basement.
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NBC, Thursdays 8:30/7:30 Central
Oct 03, 2013
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Welcome to the Family is another teen pregnancy sitcom. Think Reba, except on Welcome to the Family, the girl, Molly (Ella Rae Peck) is stupider than the guy, Junior (Joseph Haro). Junior, a valedictorian on his way to Stanford and higher education in the sciences, is stopped in his tracks when irresponsible Molly, barely scraping through high school and on her way to Arizona State University and an indeterminate future, announces she is pregnant.
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Oct 03, 2013
Music
Dr. Dog
Dr. Dog has gotten to the point where its songs sound effortless. It’s not about intricate construction—although there’s nothing sloppy or flawed about any of these songs—but rather a mood.
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Oct 03, 2013
Music
FUZZ
Here’s a toast to Tony McPhee. It seems like “Raise” on FUZZ’s self-titled debut could be an unabashed tribute to McPhee’s group The Groundhogs, one of those old-guy bands that some fangeezer will insist you give a chance—listen to them if you haven’t already; they’re right.
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NBC, Wednesdays 10/9 Central
Oct 02, 2013
TV
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That the main character is in a wheelchair doesn’t make Ironside any different from a rote police procedural. A remake of the late ‘60s/early ‘70s show of the same name, the titular character is a detective paralyzed by a bullet, wheelchair-bound but still on the job.
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