Bad Weather California played at Twist and Shout last night to a crowd of 70 folks. There was a family reunion vibe as Denver came together...

There are two seemingly irreconcilable Scott Walkers. The first Scott Walker was an Ohio-born teen idol who seduced every girl in Engla...

Here’s a riddle: how could two films taken from the same novel, with the same basic plot and themes be so very different? The Wages o...

Outkast's third major album, Aquemini, in the opinion of this Twister, is one of the best hip-hop albums ever made. This album is...

This was our third in-store with Steve Earle and as soon as he entered the store with trusted road manager and sound engineer he seemed at e...

It occurred to me I haven’t reviewed any recent releases for awhile, so here are a bunch of things that have come out in the last few weeks...

Vanishing Point is what Easy Rider would’ve been if Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper had been unknown wannabes with nowhere near the clo...

I discovered T. Rex about ten years ago when a friend loaned me 20 th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection . Turned off initially by th...

Yesterday was one of those days when so many good things happen that you just wait for a tap on the shoulder. It never came. It started with...

This is the first film that brought Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar on to the radar of a larger American audience, and it’s no surprise t...

When I got there at  8:30 a.m.  there were about 120 people in line. The first guy had apparently gotten there at  3:00 a.m.  By the time w...

This is a story about New Orleans: an amazing, singular, misunderstood city. There are a number of factors that make it a great city; the f...

I recently bowed to the pressure of well-meaning movie fans and tried to watch Pixar’s latest blockbuster Despicable Me . I thought the v...