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As with any sub-culture of artist-types, there are some fucking weirdos in the movie who yammer on and on seemingly about nothing or about the crazy visions they have in their heads. And then there’s Art Chantry – a tell-it-like-it-is sort of guy – who made a name for himself with the posters, album covers, etc. that he did for Seattle punk bands in the late ’80s/early ’90s. Chantry’s the guy who’s been around the block, who’s seen just about everything there is to see, and who speaks wisely of the different styles, trends, and history within the disjointed world of rock poster artists (though that world is becoming more and more cohesive as the internet is bringing artists together with each other and with fans through sites like Gigposters.com).

Though the subject is explored a bit in Died Young, Stayed Pretty, the one thing I thought deserved more attention was the artists’ emotional bond with the bands that they create posters for. I didn’t get a real good sense if the artists were creating posters for bands they liked and/or that inspired them or if the art came first and then they had to wait to use it until the right band/show/venue came along.

Nevertheless, the story is good, the characters interesting, the interviews revealing, the art (most of it) beautiful.

Eileen Yaghoobian will introduce Died Young, Stayed Pretty at the Wexner Center on Wednesday night at 7pm and then answer questions at the conclusion of the film. Tickets are $5 for Wexner Center members and students, $7 for the general public. Show up early (6pm) to see (and, if so inclined, purchase) art by local rock poster artists Mike Martin, donewaiting illustrator Clinton Reno, and Mike & Drue.

I think SXSW does a lot of things right, but I really wish when they did these updates they would do something to show what the changes were… Either put a * next to new names, bold them, something. Ah well, we’ll have the full schedule soon enough. In the meantime, here’s the list of confirmed bands from SXSW. The amount of bands is up to 1,800. And remember, THE LIST IS NOT FINAL.

A-Alikes (Brooklyn NY)
A Armada (Athens GA)
Abalone Dots (Vastervik SWEDEN)
Abe Vigoda (Los Angeles CA)
Absinthe Minds (Madison WI)
Abstract Rude (Los Angeles CA)
ABSU (Dallas TX)
Ace Enders (Hammonton NJ)
A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY)
AC Slater (Brooklyn NY)
Action Action (New York NY)
Act Of Congress (Birmingham AL)
A Day To Remember (Ocala FL)
Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX)
Adventure (Baltimore MD)
Afghan Raiders (Las Vegas NV)
Afrikan Boy (Lagos UK-ENGLAND)
Afrodita (Mexico City MEXICO)
Afterhours (Milano ITALY)
A Good Fight (Fayetteville AR)
AIDS Wolf (Montreal QC)
The Aimless Never Miss (San Francisco CA)
The Airborne Toxic Event (Silverlake CA)
Air Waves (Brooklyn NY)
Akron/Family (Williamsport PA)
Alash (Milwaukee WI)
Alaska in Winter (Albuquerque NM)
Alberta Cross (New York NY)
Alesana (Raleigh NC)
Alexandre Grooves (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Bishop Allen (Brooklyn NY)
All Get Out (Charelston SC)
Allison (Mexico City MEXICO)
All the Saints (Atlanta GA)
All Tiny Creatures (Milwaukee WI)
Dave Alvin (Los Angeles CA)
Amazing Baby (Brooklyn NY)
Amplified Heat (Austin TX)
AmpLive (San Francisco CA)
Anathallo (Chicago IL)
Ancestors (Los Angeles CA)
Anchorsong (London UK-ENGLAND)
Drew Andrews (San Diego CA)
Kyle Andrews (Nashville TN)
Angry Vs The Bear (Essex UK-ENGLAND)
An Horse (Brisbane QLD)
Amy Annelle (Austin TX)
Annihilation Time (Oakland CA)
Annuals (Raleigh NC)
The Answering Machine (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Anuhea (Maui HI)
Aqualung (London UK-ENGLAND)
Arabrot (Oslo NORWAY)
The ARC Angels (Austin TX)
Arkells (Hamilton ON)
Bomani Armah & Project Mayhem (Washington DC)
Arms and Legs (Croton Falls NY)
Arms and Sleepers (Cambridge MA)
Arsenal (Antwerpen BELGIUM)
Artefacts For Space Travel (London UK-ENGLAND)
Arts the Beatdoctor (Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS)
Asa (Paris FRANCE)
Asakusa Jinta (Tokyo JAPAN)
Greg Ashley Band (Oakland CA)
Ashu (Mumbai INDIA)
Mark David Ashworth (San Francisco CA)
A Skylit Drive (Lodi CA)
Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn NY)
As Tall As Lions (Long Island NY)
The Asteroid #4 (Philadelphia PA)
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Denmark DENMARK)
Asylum Street Spankers (Austin TX)
Pugs Atomz (Chicago IL)
A-Trak (New York NY)
Audacity (Fullerton CA)
Dan Auerbach (Akron OH)
Melissa Auf der Maur (Montreal QC)
Aun (Montreal QC)
Au Revoir Simone (Brooklyn NY)
Autons(TX) (Austin TX)
Autozamm (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
AwkQuarius (Dallas TX)
Awkward I (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Maya Azucena (Brooklyn NY)
Babydick (Austin TX)
Baby Robots (Austin TX)
Backseat Goodbye (Murfreesboro TN)
Baddies (Southend UK-ENGLAND)
Mike Badger (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
Bad Sports (Denton TX)
Bad Veins (Los Angeles CA)
Sam Baker (Austin TX)
Balaclavas (Houston TX)
Balance (Oakland CA)
Balmorhea (Austin TX)
Volodja Balzalorsky & Michelle Schumann (Ljubljana SLOVENIA)
Bam Bam (Monterrey MEXICO)
Banda de Turistas (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
The Band of Brotherz (San Francisco CA)
The Band of Heathens (Austin TX)
Bang! Bang! Eche! (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
The Baptist Generals (Denton TX)
Jill Barber (Halifax NS)
Barcelona (Seattle WA)
Bar-Kays (Memphis TN)
Lou Barlow w/ Imaad Wasif (Los Angeles CA)
Barn Owl (San Francisco CA)
Baskery (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Bassholes (Cleveland OH)
Ceci Bastida (Los Angeles/Tijuana CA)
Battle Circus (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Battle Hymns (Seattle WA)
Bazaar Royale (Brooklyn NY)
Beach House (Baltimore MD)
Beans on Toast (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bear Hands (Brooklyn NY)
Bearsuit (Norwich UK-ENGLAND)
BEAST (Montreal QC)
The Beat Poets (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
BeauSoleil (Lafayette LA)
Beautiful Nubia (Lagos NIGERIA )
The Beauvilles (Tampa FL)
Bedouin Soundclash (Toronto ON)
Beep Beep (Omaha NE)
Kim Beggs (Whitehorse YT)
Bell (Brooklyn NY)
Belladonna (Roma ITALY)
Chris Bell (Austin TX)
The Belleville Outfit (Austin TX)
Belong (New Orleans LA)
Marco Benevento Trio (Brooklyn NY)
Benny Crespo’s Gang (Reykjavik ICELAND)
Chris Bergson (Brooklyn NY)
The Besties (Brooklyn NY)
Between the Trees (Orlando FL)
Jim Bianco (Los Angeles CA)
Big Sam’s Funky Nation (New Orleans LA)
Binary Audio Misfits (Toulouse FRANCE)
Scott H. Biram (Austin TX)
Diane Birch (New York NY)
Andrew Bird (Chicago IL)
Martina Topley Bird (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bird of Youth (Brooklyn NY)
Birds Of Tokyo (Brunswick VIC)
Birds of Wales (Toronto ON)
Wallis Bird (Dublin IRELAND)
Birthday Suits (Minneapolis MN)
Bisc1 (Queens NY)
Biscuit Brothers (Austin TX)
Bishi (London UNITED KINGDOM)
Bitter End (San Antonio TX)
Black & White Years (Austin TX)
Black Acid (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Black Box Revelation (Brussels BELGIUM)
Black Cherry (London UK-ENGLAND)
Black Cock (Austin TX)
Black Diamond Bay (formerly Krief) (Montreal QC)
Black Diamond Heavies (Chattanooga TN)
Black Drawing Chalks (Goiania GO)
Black Gold (Brooklyn NY)
The Black Hollies (Jersey City NJ)
B L A C K I E (LaPorte TX)
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (Austin TX)
Black Lips (Atlanta GA)
Blacklist (New York NY)
Blacklisted Individuals (Austin TX)
Black Math Horseman (Los Angeles CA)
Black Skies (Chapel Hill NC)
Black Stone Cherry (Glasgow KY)
Blackstrap (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Black Tusk (Savannah GA)
Amanda Blank (Philadelphia PA)
blankdogs (Brooklyn NY)
Blaqstarr (Baltimore MD)
Bleeders (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Blind Pilot (Portland OR)
BLK JKS (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Blofly (Dallas TX)
Bloodgroup (Reykjavik ICELAND)
Blood Red Throne (Kristiansand NORWAY)
The Bloodsugars (New York NY)
Aaron Blount (Lytton Springs TX)
Blu (Los Angeles CA)
The Blue Aeroplanes (Bristol UK-ENGLAND)
Blue Giant (Portland OR)
Blue King Brown (Melbourne VIC)
Blue Scholars (Seattle WA)
BM Linx (New York NY)
The Boat People (Brisbane QLD)
Boats (Winnipeg MB)
B.o.B (Atlanta GA)
Harlan T Bobo (Memphis TN)
Bogan Dust (New York NY)
Bogart and the Addictives (Toulouse FRANCE)
Bo-Keys (Memphis TN)
Haley Bonar (St Paul MN)
Marcus Bonfanti (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bonjour Brumaire (Montreal QC)
BO-PEEP (Tokyo JAPAN)
Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles (Boston MA)
Bosque Brown (Ft. Worth TX)
The Botticellis (San Francisco CA)
Bowling For Soup (Denton TX)
Boxcar Satan (San Antonio TX)
Box Elders (Omaha NE)
Boy Crisis (Brooklyn NY)
Boys Noize (Berlin GERMANY)
Cory Branan (Memphis TN)
Brazos (Austin TX)
The Break And Repair Method (Los Angeles CA)
The Breakers (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Brick Bandits (Newark NJ)
Brigade (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bring Me The Horizon (Sheffield UK-ENGLAND)
Jackie Bristow (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Broadfield Marchers (Louisville KY)
The Bronx (Los Angeles CA)
Elliot BROOD (Toronto ON)
Tom Brosseau (Los Angeles CA)
Brother Reade (Winston Salem NC)
David Thomas Broughton (London UK-ENGLAND)
Cliff Brown Jr (Austin TX)
Brownout (Austin TX)
Trey Brown (Austin TX)
The Brunettes (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Nell Bryden (New York NY)
Clarence Bucaro (New York NY)
Buck 65 (Halifax NS)
Buddy (Los Angeles CA)
Buff1 (Ann Arbor MI)
Andy Bull (Sydney NSW)
Buraka Som Sistema (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Grecco Buratto (Los Angeles CA)
Joby Burgess (London UK-ENGLAND)
Steve Burns (and The Struggle) (Brooklyn NY)
Lee Burridge (London UK-ENGLAND)
Martin Buscaglia (Montevideo URUGUAY)
Busdriver (Los Angeles CA)
Bushwalla (San Diego CA)
Butterfly Boucher (Nashville TN)
Cactus’s (Franklin TN)
Cadence Weapon (Edmonton AB)
Cafe Funque (Rio de Janeiro RJ)
Cage (New York NY)
Cage The Elephant (Bowling Green KY)
Callers (Brooklyn NY)
Camera Obscura (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Chanel Campbell (Nashville TN)
Greg Camp (Santa Cruz CA)
Camp Lo (Bronx NY)
Cancer Bats (Toronto ON)
Candy Coated Killahz (Toronto ON)
Canja Rave (Porto Alegre RS)
Canopy (Austin TX)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Caracol (Montreal QC)
Care Bears On Fire (New York NY)
Brian Cares (Berlin GERMANY)
Loene Carmen (Sydney NSW)
Carolina Chocolate Drops (Raleigh NC)
The Carrots (Austin TX)
Cary Brothers (Los Angeles CA)
Cash Cash (Roseland NJ)

CASIOKIDS (Bergen NORWAY)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago IL)
Cassim & Barbaria (Florianopolis BRAZIL)
Castledoor (Los Angeles CA)
Gavin Castleton (Portand OR)
Casxio (Sherman Oaks CA)
Cause Co-Motion! (Brooklyn NY)
Chairlift (Brooklyn NY)
Champagne Champagne (Seattle WA)
The Chap (London UK-ENGLAND)
Charanga Cakewalk (Austin TX)
Josh Charles (Brooklyn NY)
Chavy Boys (Baltimore MD)
Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds (Woodbridge UK-ENGLAND)
The Chesterfield Kings (Rochester NY)
The Chicharones (Portland OR)
Chief (Santa Monica CA)
Chikita Violenta (Mexico City MEXICO)
Chin Chin (Brooklyn NY)
Cory Chisel (Appleton WI)
Chiwoniso (Harare SOUTH AFRICA)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
Choir of Young Believers (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Margaret Cho (Los Angeles CA)
Choo Choo (Bern SWITZERLAND)
Chris T-T (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Chuck Mead (Nashville TN)
Gabriella Cilmi (London UK-ENGLAND)
City Center (Brooklyn NY)
The City Lives (Oklahoma City OK)
CKY (West Chester PA)
Cla (Oporto PORTUGAL)
Gary Clark Jr (Austin TX)
Classified (Enfield NS)
Classixx (Los Angeles CA)
Clemits (Austin TX)
The Cliks (Toronto ON)
Clipd Beaks (San Francisco CA)
Closure In Moscow (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Cloud Room (Brooklyn NY)
CLP (Berlin GERMANY)
The Clutters (Nashville TN)
The Coast (Toronto ON)
The Coathangers (Atlanta GA)
Cobra Krames (Brooklyn NY)
The Cocktail Slippers (Oslo NORWAY)
Codebreaker (Milwaukee WI)
Colossus (Raleigh NC)
Colourmusic (Stillwater OK)
Coma in Algiers (Austin TX)
Come On Gang! (Edinburgh UK-SCOTLAND)
Common Loon (Champaign IL)
Common Market (Seattle WA)
Conil (London UK-ENGLAND)
Holly Conlan (Los Angeles CA)
Connan Mockasin (London NEW ZEALAND)
Contramano (Brooklyn NY)
Coreysan (Tacarigua TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
Murali Coryell (Boiceville NY)
Cosmopolitan (Hermosillo MEXICO)
Cousin Cole (Brooklyn NY)
Paul Couture (Austin TX)
Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers (Shawnee OK)
Crash Kings (Los Angeles CA)
The Crash That Took Me (Dallas TX)
Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves (Austin TX)
Crew54 (Killeen TX)
The Crimea (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Cringe (New York NY)
Laura Critchley (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
AJ Croce (San Diego CA)
Crocodile (Oklahoma City OK)
Crooked Still (Boston MA)
Crown City Rockers (Oakland CA)
John Cruz (Honolulu HI)
Crystal Antlers (Long Beach CA)
The Crystal Method (Los Angeles CA)
Crystal Stilts (New York NY)
Alex Cuba (Vancouver BC)
Cubismo Grafico Five (Tokyo JAPAN)
Cuca (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Austin Cunningham (Nashville TN)
Cursive (Omaha NE)
The Cute Lepers (Seattle WA)
Cut Off Your Hands (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
CY (Houston TX)
CYNE (Gainesville FL)
The Cynics (Pittsburgh PA)
Da C.O.D. (Austin TX)
Daddy a Go-Go (Atlanta GA)
DADDY (Will Kimbrough & Tommy Womack) (Nashville TN)
Dag for Dag (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Floyd Dakil Combo (Dallas TX)
David Dallas (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Micah Dalton (Chattanooga TN)
Damero (Berlin GERMANY)
Dananananaykroyd (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Dance Gavin Dance (Sacramento CA)
Danger (Lyon FRANCE)
Jesse Dangerously (Ottawa ON)
The Dangerous Summer (Ellicot City MA)
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip (Stanford Le Hope UK-ENGLAND)
Danny And The Champions Of The World (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dappled Cities (Sydney NSW)
Darker Florida (Tallahassee FL)
Darondo (San Francisco CA)
Dash Rip Rock (New Orleans LA)
Bart Davenport (Berkeley CA)
Guy Davis (New York NY)
DAVY JONES’ LOCKER (kRISTIANSAND AZ)
Dawes (Los Angeles CA)
Steve J. Dawson (Chicago IL)
The Day After… (Las Vegas NV)
Jesse Dayton (Austin TX)
DD/MM/YYYY (Toronto ON)
Dead Confederate (Athens GA)
Dead Luke (Madison WI)
Dead Mans Bones (Los Angeles CA)
deadmau5 (Tornto CA)
Dead Sexy Inc (Paris FRANCE)
Deadstring Brothers (Detroit MI)
The Dead Trees (Portland OR)
Dear and the Headlights (Tempe AZ)
Deastro (Detroit MI)
Death In The Park (Montgomery AL)
Death is not a joyride. (Austin TX)
Deathly Fighter (Columbus OH)
Death On Two Wheels (Atlanta GA)

The Death Set (Philadelphia PA)
Debayres (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
The DeBretts (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Decemberists (Portland OR)
The Deep Dark Woods (Saskatoon SK)
The Deep Vibration (Nashville TN)
Deer Tick (Providence RI)
Deichkind (Hamburg GERMANY)
Dekadens (Bucharest ROMANIA)
Del Castillo (Austin TX)
Delco (Madrid SPAIN)
DeLeon (Brooklyn NY)
Deleted Waveform Gatherings (Oslo NORWAY)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver BC)
De los Muertos (San Antonio TX)
Delphic (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Delta Spirit (San Diego CA)
Brigitte DeMeyer (Burlingame CA)
Department of Eagles (Brooklyn NY)
Angel Deradoorian (New York NY)
Des Ark (Durham NC)
Pamela Des Barres (Los Angeles CA)
Descartes A Kant (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Designer Drugs (New York NY)
Desolation Wilderness (Olympia WA)
The Details (Winnipeg MB)
detroit7 (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Devil Makes Three (Davis CA)
The Devil Wears Prada (Dayton OH)
Kevin Devine & the Goddamn Band (Brooklyn NY)
Keegan DeWitt (Portland OR)
Dexter Romweber Duo (Chappel Hill NC)
Alela Diane (Portland OR)
Madi Diaz (Nashville TN)
Pilar Diaz (Los Angeles CA)
Tina Dico (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dieselboy (Brooklyn NY)
Dignan (McAllen TX)
Dikes of Holland (Austin TX)
Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)
Dirtblonde (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Dirt Drifters (Nashville TN)
Dirty Epics (Dublin IRELAND)
Dirty Old Men (Tochigi JAPAN)
Dirty Projectors (Brooklyn NY)
Disappears (Chicago IL)
Amanda Diva (New York NY)
Diva Gash (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Division Minuscula (Matamoros MEXICO)
Division Of Laura Lee (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
Dixie Witch (Austin TX)
DJ Ayres (Brooklyn NY)
DJ Chicken George (Austin TX)
DJ Craze (Miami FL)
DJ Eleven (Brooklyn NY)
DJ Jester the Filipino Fist (San Antonio TX)
DJ Mel (Austin TX)
Dlugokecki (Southampton UK-ENGLAND)
DM Stith (Buffalo NY)
D.O. (Toronto ON)
Doctor Krapula (Bogota COLOMBIA)
The Dogs (Detroit) (Detroit MI)
Julie Doiron (Sackville NB)
B. Dolan (Providence RI)
The Dollyrots (Los Angeles CA)
Dommin (Los Angeles CA)
Don’t Tell Sophie (Tacoma WA)
The Donkeys (San Diego CA)
Doomtree (Minneapolis MN)
Dooney Da Priest (Dallas TX)
Luke Doucet (Toronto ON)
Lila Downs (New York NY)
Daniel Francis Doyle (Austin TX)
The Drams (Denton TX)
Dredg (San Francisco CA)
Dressy Bessy (Denver CO)
Drink Up Buttercup (Horsham PA)
The Drones (Melbourne VIC)
Dry Spells (San Francisco CA)
The Dt’s (Bellingham WA)
Dubb Sicks (Odessa TX)
Ducktails (Ridgewood NJ)
The D’Urbervilles (Toronto ON)
Dan Dyer (Austin TX)
Eagle Claw (Austin TX)
Eagle Winged Palace (Los Angeles CA)
Earlimart (Los Angeles CA)
Early Man (New York NY)
Ear Pwr (Asheville NC)
Earthless (San Diego CA)
Tim Easton (Joshua Tree CA)
Easy Star All-Stars (New York NY)
Eat Skull (Portland OR)
Ebony Bones (London UK-ENGLAND)
Echo and The Bunnymen (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
Ecstatic Sunshine (Baltimore MD)
Efterklang (Copenhagen DENMARK)
The Egg (London UK-ENGLAND)
8ball and mjg (Memphis TN)
18th Dye (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Nicole Eitner (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Eksi Ekso (Boston MA)
Elastic Band (Granada SPAIN)
The Electric City (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Electric Diorama (Rome ITALY)
Electric Touch (Austin TX)
Elemeno P (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
El Jesus de Magico (Columbus OH)
Carrie Elkin (Austin TX)
The Elms (Seymour IN)
El Tule (Cedar Park TX)
The Elysian Quartet (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Emeralds (Yokohama JAPAN)
Emma Lee (Toronto ON)
Val Emmich (Jersey City NJ)
Empire Isis (Montreal QC)
Empyr (Paris FRANCE)
Emynd & Bo Bliz (Philadelphia PA)
Endless Boogie (New York NY)
Caleb Engstrom (Iowa City IA)
The Enright House (Chicago IL)
Enter Shikari (St Albans UK-ENGLAND)
Eol Trio (Paris FRANCE)
The Escape Frame (Montgomery AL)
Ali Eskandarian (Brooklyn NY)
Esser (Essex UK-ENGLAND)
Shuttle (Boston MA)
The Ettes (New York NY)
Eulogies (Los Angeles CA)
Evaline (Modesto CA)
The Evaporators (Vancouver BC)
The Everyday Visuals (Boston MA)
Evil Bebos (Murfreesboro TN)
Evil Nine Live (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Exene Cervenka (Jefferson City MO)
Tim Exile (Berlin GERMANY)
Explosions in the Sky (Austin TX)
Factums (Seattle WA)
Mickey Factz (Bronx NY)
Frank Fairfield (Glendale CA)
John Fairhurst (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Fair to Midland (Sulpher Springs TX)
Fake Problems (Naples FL)
Fanfarlo (London UK-ENGLAND)
Fannius III (Los Angeles CA)
Fastball (Austin TX)
Fat Pimp (Dallas TX)
The Features (Nashville TN)

The Felice Brothers (Palenville NY)
Felix Cartal (Vancouver BC)
FemBots (Toronto ON)
Douglas Ferguson (Austin TX)
Ferraby Lionheart (Nashville TN)
Benjy Ferree (Washington DC)
Melissa Ferrick (Boston MA)
Fiasco (Brooklyn NY)
Fight Bite (Denton TX)
Fighting With Wire (Derry UK-N. IRELAND)
Fight Like Apes (Dublin IRELAND)
fiN (London UK-ENGLAND)
Final Flash (Montreal QC)
Finde (Mexico City MEXICO)
Rodney Fisher (New Plymouth NEW ZEALAND)
Five Times August (Dallas TX)
FLiP (Okinawa JAPAN)
Floating Action (Black Mountain NC)
Flood Of Red (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Flosstradamus (Chicago IL)
Flow Factory (Houston TX)
Ron Flynt (Austin TX)
FNU Ronnies (san francisco CA)
Fol Chen (Highland Park CA)
David Fonseca (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Fool’s Gold (Los Angeles CA)
Foot Patrol (Austin TX)
Foreign Born (Los Angeles CA)
Foreign Legion (Oakland CA)
Jen Foster (Nashville TN)
Ruthie Foster (Austin TX)
FOUND (Edinburgh UK-SCOTLAND)
Fox Cubs (Newbury UK-ENGLAND)
The Foxx (Albuquerque NM)
Frances (New York NY)
Francis and The Lights (New York NY)
Eugene Francis Jnr & The Juniors (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Robert Francis (Los Angeles CA)
Sage Francis (Providence RI)
Kam Franklin (Houston TX)
Ron Franklin (Memphis TN)
Frank Smith (Austin TX)
Freeland (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Free Sol (Memphis TN)
French Horn Rebellion (New York NY)
Friends Electric (Neath UK-WALES)
Jessie Frye (Arlington TX)
Fuckshovel (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Fumes (Sydney NSW)
Funeral Party (Los Angeles CA)
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons (Chicago IL)
Futomomo Satisfaction (Tokyo JAPAN)
Future Clouds & Radar (Austin TX)
Future Of The Left (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Future Virgins (Chatanooga TN)
Dmitry Fyodorov (Stockholm SWEDEN)
GAGAKIRISE (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Gala Band (Bristol UK-ENGLAND)
Benny Gallagher (West Wickham UK-ENGLAND)
Gallows (London UK-ENGLAND)
Gordon Gano and The Ryan Brothers (New York NY)
Gary War (Brooklyn NY)
David Garza (Austin TX)
The Gay Blades (New York NY)
Gaybomb (Washington DC)
Geeks (Tokyo JAPAN)
Howe Gelb (Tucson AZ)
General Fiasco (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Genia (London UK-ENGLAND)
Gentleman Reg (Toronto ON)
Gerald G. (Austin TX)
J. Matthew Gerken (Sacramento CA)
The Ghost (Torshavn FAROE ISLANDS)
The Ghost Frequency (London UK-ENGLAND)
Laura Gibson (Portland OR)
Colin Gilmore (Austin TX)
The Gin Riots (London UK-ENGLAND)
Monica Giraldo (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Girl in a Coma (San Antonio TX)
The Girls (Seattle WA)
Girls (San Francisco CA)
Girls in Trouble (Brooklyn NY)
Glacier Hiking (Los Angeles CA)
Glambilly (San Antonio TX)
Glasvegas (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
GLC (Chicago IL)
Glorious Voice Gospel Singers (Lagos/Ogun NIGERIA)
Glossary (Murfreesboro TN)
Goes Cube (Brooklyn NY)
Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies (Philadelphia PA)
The Golden Arm Trio Does DUKE! (Austin TX)
Golden Bear (Austin TX)
Golden Boots (Tucson AZ)
Golden Boys (Austin TX)
The Golden Dogs (Toronto ON)
The Golden Filter (New York NY)
Graham Reynolds Piano Quintet (Austin TX)
GoldieLocks (London UK-ENGLAND)
Golem (Brooklyn NY)
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs (United Kingdom GA)
Gomez (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Robert Gomez (Denton TX)
Dave Gonzalez and The Stone River Boys (Austin TX)
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez (Baltimore MD)
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Wayne Kramer (Detroit MI)
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Eric Krug (Austin TX)
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Greg Laswell (Los Angeles CA)
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Late Of The Pier (Nottingham UK-ENGLAND)
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Eric Lindell (New Orleans LA)
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LOOT feat. Turnstylz (New York NY)
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The Love Language (Raleigh NC)
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The Lovemakers (Oakland CA)
The Love Me Nots (Phoenix AZ)
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Lowkey of SouthBound (Austin TX)
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Lucky Fonz III (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Jessica Lurie (Seattle WA)
Terry Lynn (Kingston JAMAICA)
Jason Lytle (Montana MT)
Macaco Bong (Cuiaba NULL)
Polly Mackey (Wrexham UK-ENGLAND)
Mad Juana (New York NY)
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Magno aka Magnificent (Houston TX)
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Pouya Mahmoodi (Tehran IRAN)
The Maids Of Honor (Santa Cruz CA)
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Mark Mallman (Minneapolis MN)
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Raul Malo (Nashville TN)
Manana (Basel SWITZERLAND)
Manchester Orchestra (Atlanta GA)
Dan Mangan (Vancouver BC)
Manhattan Love Suicides (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
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Maps & Atlases (Chicago IL)
Marching Band (Linköping SWEDEN)
Marcy Playground (Minneapolis MN)
Ida Maria (Stockholm NY)
Anya Marina (San Diego CA)
Marli (London UK-ENGLAND)
Laura Marling (London UK-ENGLAND)
Marc Maron (Queens NY)
Marshall Ford Swing Band (Austin TX)
Paul Marshall (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
David Martel (Montreal QC)
David Martell (Montreal QC)
Josh Martinez (Vancouver BC)
Maserati (Athens GA)
The Matches (Oakland CA)
Lorrie Matheson (Calgary AB)
John Matthias & Nick Ryan (London UK-ENGLAND)
Angie Mattson (Los Angeles CA)
Max Tundra (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (Oxford MS)
Jessica Lea Mayfield (Kent OH)
The May Fire (San Francisco CA)
Mayyors (Sacramento CA)
Charlie Mcalister (Charleston SC)
Erin McCarley (Nashville TN)
Melissa McClelland (Toronto ON)
Joe McDermott (Austin TX)
MC Frontalot (Brooklyn NY)
Eugene McGuinness (London UK-ENGLAND)
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band (Austin TX)
Shawn David McMillen (Austin TX)
Kiernan McMullan (Limerick IRELAND)
Meat Puppets (Phoenix AZ)
Medi And The Medicine Show (Paris FRANCE)
The Medic Droid (Phoenix AZ)
Meese (Denver CO)
Megafaun (Durham NC)
Megazilla (Columbia TX)
Meiko (Roberta GA)
Mekaal Hasan Band (Lahore PAKISTAN)
Meliss FX (Santa Monica CA)
Pedro Menendez JazzTango Ensemble (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
Mi Ami (San Francisco CA)
Miami Horror (Melbourne VIC)
Micachu (London UK-ENGLAND)
Michna (Brooklyn NY)
Midnight Peacocks (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Midnight Youth (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
The Mighty Stef (Dublin IRELAND)
Mika Miko (Los Angeles CA)
Derek Miller (Toronto ON)
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Gabriel Minnikin (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
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Eugene Mirman (Brooklyn NY)
Mirrorkicks (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Miserable Rich (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Mishka (Halifax CANADA)
The Mission District (Montreal QC)
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Mistah FAB (Oakland CA)
Mixtapes & Cellmates (Stockholm SWEDEN)
The Moaners (Chapel Hill NC)
Modern Skirts (Athens GA)
Modex (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
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Mom (Denton TX)
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Money (Missouri City TX)
Monokino (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Monotonix (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Monte Negro (Los Angeles CA)
The Moog (Budapest HUNGARY)
Moonlight Towers (Austin TX)
Colin Moore (Montreal QC)
Daniel Martin Moore (Cold Spring KY)
Ian Moore (Seattle WA)
Tony Moore (London UK-ENGLAND)
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More Or Les (Montreal QC)
Tanya Morgan (Brooklyn NY)
Moriarty (Montreuil FRANCE)

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Moth!Fight! (Austin TX)
Mr Lewis and The Funeral 5 (Austin TX)
Mr Lif (Philadelphia PA)
MSTRKRFT (Toronto ON)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (Seattle WA)
Muck and the Mires (Boston MA)
Mugu Guymen (Stone Mountain GA)
Krista Muir (Montreal QC)
Mumford & Sons (London UK-ENGLAND)
Mumiy Troll (Vladivostok RUSSIA)
Colin Munroe (Toronto ON)
Murder (Copenhagen DENMARK)
…music video? (Tucson AZ)
Ramiro Musotto (Salvador BA)
My Dear Disco (Ann Arbor MI)
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My Federation (Hove UK-ENGLAND)
My Jerusalem (Austin TX)
Myka 9 (Los Angeles CA)
My Latest Novel (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
My Sad Captains (London UK-ENGLAND)
Mythical Beast (Kansas City MO)
Nacho Vegas (Gijon SPAIN)
Nacional (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Nadastrom (Washington DC)
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Terra Naomi (Los Angeles CA)
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Natalia Lafourcade (Mexico City MEXICO)
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Natccu (Tokyo JAPAN)
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Paula Nelson Band (Austin TX)
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New York Dolls (New York NY)
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Outasight (New York NY)
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PEDESTRIAN (LOS ANGELES CA)
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Peer Pressure (Montreal QC)
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland (Germantown NY)
Mandi Perkins (Los Angeles CA)
The Perpetrators (Winnipeg MB)
Katy Perry (Los Angeles CA)
Perseph One (Houston TX)
Pete and The Pirates (Reading UK-ENGLAND)
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Peter Bjorn and John (Stockholm SWEDEN)
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Peter’s Songs (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
Phantogram (Saratoga Springs NY)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band (Brooklyn NY)
Phosphorescent (Brooklyn NY)
Phranchyze (Austin TX)
The Physics of Meaning (Chapel Hill NC)
The Pictish Trail (Cellardyke Anstruther Fife UK-SCOTLAND)
Pictureplane (Denver CO)
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Chris Pierce (Earth CA)
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+/- {Plus/Minus} (Brooklyn NY)
Pocahaunted (Los Angeles CA)
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Christopher Rees (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) (New York NY)
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Is it possible that George Lucas would okay a new Star Wars film for the express purpose of shutting down all the mean things film critics have been saying about him over the course of his second trilogy of Star Wars flicks?

Probably not, but one could make the argument; after all, one of the very few pleasure of the new computer-animated Star Wars: Clone Wars is ticking off the ways it responds to common criticisms of the past few films, proving critics’ assertions wrong.

For example, one of the most common complaints was that the reason the new trilogy was so goddam awful compared to the six-ilogy’s crown jewel, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, was that control freak Lucas was insisting on doing so much himself, instead of turning the scripting and directing over to more competent creators.

Well, Clone Wars is directed by animator Dave Filoni, not Lucas, and it’s screenplay is written by Steven Melching and Scott Murphy. Lucas only gets credit for the “story” (“Okay, so these guys fight these guys, and then they do it again, and then they do it again, and that oughta kill 90 minutes”) and for creating the “characters and universe.”

And you know what? It’s even more goddam awful than the last three movies. So there, smarty-pants critics!

Another criticism was that Lucas had grown so enamored of digital effects and computer wizardry that he was just one step away from not needing actual humans for anything; that some day he could replace all the Samuel Jacksons and Natalie Portmans with digital effects.

Well guess what? This movie is completely actor-free (save voice actors impersonating the actors who played the characters in previous films), and it is not an improvement. Lucas may have sucked almost all signs of life out of his performers in the previous outings, but there was still some spark of humanity even he couldn’t kill; say what you will about least Hayden Christensen, at least he gave a human sense of scale to the proceedings. I found myself longing for his dull monotone and petulant emoting while I watched his hideous, elongated avatar glide gravity-less across the screen.

Filoni and company also manage to keep the weaknesses of Lucas’ last go-round while simultaneously ditching Lucas’ aces in the hole and the results are, predictably, quite tedious.

The galaxy still seems small to the point of claustrophobic; there are only a handful of different planets, that we keep returning to, and maybe a dozen different people, all of whom know one another.

The conflict is still about boring shit—this time, trade routes and treaty negotiations.

And the bad guys are still comical stereotypes with goofy names; this time out, the new villain is Ziro the Hutt, Jabba’s uncle who, for some reason, speaks English with an effeminate southern accent. Think Truman Capote as a giant space slug, covered head to tail-tip in mardi gras make-up.

Now the prequel trilogy had two things going for it that not even every bad filmmaking decision in the whole world couldn’t completely kill. One was the fact that we all knew the ending already and generally liked it, so whatever missteps were made along the way, we knew exactly where it would end up, and had some degree of curiosity about how this toe-headed little tyke would grow up to impregnate Natalie Portman and then turn into space Hitler.

The other was the number of nostalgia buttons that could easily be pushed, sending a signal straight to so many people’s pleasure buttons. That 20th Century Fox music before the opening credit, the scrawl, the John Williams score—these have left indelible impressions in a whole generation of kids who have grown up into the prime film demographic.

Well, they’re all gone. This film’s distributed by Warner Bros, so no Fox drumroll. It’s also apparently aimed at kids (or maybe dumb kids, since the last six films were all aimed at kids too), so no crawl to read at the beginning because if you can read, you probably shouldn’t be watching this movie; the set-up comes in the form of a narrated montage of images instead.

And, sin of sins, no Williams score, or even playing of his themes (not until over the ending credits). It’s been replaced by an instrumental rock and roll score, of all things.

The story is set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, although, more specifically, it’s set between 2003 Cartoon Network animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars and an upcoming CGI TV series also called Star Wars: Clone Wars, making this film essentially just the pilot for a TV series (which is evident in the fact that no conflicts are actually resolved in the film).

The original Cartoon Network series was a traditionally-animated, 2D affair helmed by brilliant animator Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory), and it consisted of extremely simplified but highly stylized character and set designs in services of blisteringly fast action. It wasn’t terribly ambitious—billed as a “micro-series” each episode was only a few minutes long—and tended to simply show extended action set-pieces. But it was quite good; Tartakovsky knows who to tell a story efficiently and effectively through moving images.

Why he wasn’t involved with the new movie is perplexing, but not as perplexing as the decision to use the flat, cartoony designs of the 2D series and add a third dimension to them, giving the entire film a bad video game look.

As for the story, Still-Not Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and their Clone armies continue to fight against Count Poopy, er, Dooku, his evil apprentice Ventress (introduced in the 2003 TV series) and their comical droid army. And then someone kidnaps Jabba The Hutt’s son, an actually rather cute “Huttlett,” and both sides race to recover it to curry favor with the Hutt clan so he will allow access to trade routes in his sector from troop movements and blah blah blah.

Complicating things for Anakin is the fact that he’s assigned a new padwan learner (that’s nerd for “intern”) Ahsoka Tano, a spunky/bratty orange-skinned teenage girl. They call each other by irritating nicknames (“Skyguy” and “Silks”) as they bicker and try to safely deliver baby “Stinky” the Hutt to his dad.

Like all of the Star Wars films, this one has its moments—I liked the squid-shaped ship that appears for three seconds in the opening montage, and the fight up the side of a sheer cliff wall—but it has fewer moments than any of the others that came before.

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It’s hard to say which summer movie suffers the most from the presence of the other: Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Obviously, the latter owes its very existence to the former. When writer/director Stephen Sommers launched The Mummy franchise for Universal in 1999, it bore far more in common with the Indiana Jones cycle than the 1932 Boris Karloff movie it was supposedly a kinda sorta reimagination of.

While George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg looked to old B-movies and serials for inspiration, turning out an A-list B-movie in their Indy franchise, The Mummy was a B-movie version of their A-list B-movie, taken the historical swashbuckling action flick back to its shoddier roots, with star Brendan Fraser’s self-aware charm and an at times nauseating amount of computer animation to separate it as a good-bad movie version of old bad-bad movies.

It was hit enough to inspire a sequel ( 2001’s The Mummy Returns), a spin-off (2002’s The Scorpion King), and, after an aborted attempt at a similar franchise ( 2004’s Van Helsing) a second sequel, this one right on the heels of the long-awaited fourth Indiana Jones.

While Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has its critics and defenders, after so many years of Fraser, Nicolas Cage and even Angelina Jolie handling all the tomb-raiding for old man Harrison Ford, I found the pervading sense of Is-this-all-there-is-ism of Kingdom to be fairly irresistible. “Hell,” I thought, “Fraser could have done that.”

And indeed he does it; right here.

If Mummy hurts Indy, it does so retroactively, by reminding us that we’ve all moved on to other things.

Unfortunately for Mummy, it came on the heels of Kingdom, and bears an uncanny resemblance to it.

As in Kingdom, our lead must deal with a headstrong son with his eyes on his mantle (Luke Ford, playing Fraser’s grown-up son), and the bulk of the film involves the whole family, including Maria Bello taking over the role of Mrs. O’Connell from the moved-on Rachel Weisz, adventuring together. There are even some unexpected plot “twists” that play out exactly as they did in Kingdom.

In The Mummy’s favor, it has lower stakes and expectations, and while it’s plot and script might not be all that great, they at least succeed at meeting those expectations.

Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, XXX) takes over the director’s chair, and he provides the same sorts of old-school thrills with a sense of humor that you would expect, from either a Mummy or an Indy, and in the wake of CGI prairie dogs, monkeys and space aliens of Kingdom, this franchise’s copious amounts of special effects seem less garish than they did the last few times around.

A rather long opening sequence introduces us to new “mummy” Emperor Han (Jet Li), who tried to rule the world and become immortal back in the days of ancient China. He was thwarted by a sorceress played by Michell Yeoh, who cursed him and his army, coating them all in terra cotta and sealing them in a tomb, to sleep for all eternity…or at least until the rest of the characters are introduced.

In 1947, the O’Connells are frustrated adventurers trying to adjust to retired, mummy-less domestic life, and generally failing. They’re called back into action when their son finds that which provides the subtitle of the film, and some evil Chinese military types awaken the Dragon Emperor to re-conquer China.

Together with allies like Yeoh’s immortal magic lady, Isabella Leong’s ninja guardian, John Hannah’s recurring comedy relief character, Liam Cunningham’s drunken Irish pilot and some Yeti, they must save the day, along the way stopping at a Shanghai nightclub, the Himalayas, the lost city of Shangri La and the deserts of China.

It will likely surprise no one to hear that Cohen hasn’t gotten any more like Spielberg in the last few years, and for all the rather imaginative set-pieces and action scenes, few are staged very well. Too enamored with close-ups and fast cuts, Cohen’s camera suggests more action than it ever actually captures, which is really too bad when you have martial arts legends like Li and Yeoh sharing scenes and trading blows.

But despite its failings, this latest Mummy still seems to succeed, if only by virtue of not having to try too hard to be as good or better as its predecessors, and seeming to still have enough vitality to hold its own against this summer’s other movie about an adventuring family of explorers. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a fourth film, as Universal hasn’t quite nuked the fridge just yet.

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Given the peculiar ambitions of the Hellboy franchise—would-be blockbuster special effects-driven eye candy horror action comedy—it should come as no surprise that the second go-round, Hellboy II: The Golden Army is all over the place.

The tone shifts from scenes of wacky slapstick to too-earnest melodrama to self-serious superhero movie-isms, and you can practically fell the gears grinding when it does.

It’s to writer/director Guillermo del Toro credit that the entire endeavor never completely stalls out, but manages to zip by thanks to copious B-movie charm, and genuinely amazing creature designs, a movie menagerie that could fill more than one of Pan’s labyrinths.

Ron Perlman reprises his role as the title character, the big red son of Satan with a huge right hand and sawed-off horns who works for the BPRD, a sort gothic version of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones’ Men In Black. His best friend is fish man Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), his long-suffering girlfriend is pyrokinetic Liz (Selma Blair) and his boss is Jeffrey Tambor.

Added to the mix is another colorful freak a by-the-book agent Johann Kraus (voiced by Seth “Family Guy” MacFarlane, doing a silly German accent).

Meanwhile, a pair of albino elf twins—evil prince Luke Goss and good princess Anna Walton—cause trouble for our heroes. The former is pursuing the latter, who holds the last piece of the maguffin he needs to control an unstoppable army of clockwork killers and take earth back for elfkind or whatever.

Del Toro plays the interpersonal conflicts as seriously as the apocalyptic threat business, but just because there’s a devil man, fish man and elves acting out the same old jokes, sitcom romances and buddy cope movie clichés, it doesn’t really make them any less tired.

Nor does it help that the movie seems to be two or three different movies all trying to eat one another. For example, in one scene of moving, surreal beauty, Hellboy reluctantly kills a beanstalk monster he’s told is a forest god, and, after the slam-bang action, the monster’s blood transforms a portion of the city is turned into a veritable garden of Eden, striking all of characters dumb with awe as they survey the “damage.”

In the next scene, Hellboy loses a fight to a set of lockers possessed by a disembodied German accent, the rain of cartoon blows ringing off his head like punchlines.

While Del Toro (who shares a story credit with Hellboy and company’s creator, comic book artist Mike Mignola) doesn’t quite make such an odd amalgam of genres work, he doesn’t exactly fail either.

His movie is less than the sum of its parts, sure, but there are some downright incredible parts.

The exposition about the elves and the Golden Army is presented as an animated 3-D puppet show that looks at times like a Brothers Quay 300, a visit to a “troll market” bears one of most interesting gathering of movie creatures since Sir Alec Guinnes took Mark Hamill into the Star Wars cantina, and the titular menace’s ability of self-repair leads to some more interesting animation.

The multiplex would be a much better place to visit if more big studio movies failed in the same ways that this one does.

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Like seemingly every third big studio movie this summer, Wanted is based on a superhero comic, a 2003 six-issue series of the same title.

In it, thinly-veiled versions of DC Comics supervillians have conquered the world and rule it from behind the scenes, lulling us into thinking that superheroes are just things in comics, movies and bad TV shows from decades ago. Perhaps due to legal reasons—I’m talking some thin, thin veils over those DC characters—the movie adaptation takes practically nothing from its comic source: The title, a couple of characters’ names, two lines of dialogue and…that’s about it, actually.

That in and of itself wouldn’t really be a problem, at least not as problematic as where director Timur “Night Watch” Bekmambetov gets his inspiration instead: The Matrix movies. You would think that Matrix Revolutions would have been the stake through the heart of Matrix mimicry, but here we have a guy with extraordinary superpowers in a business suit jumping through an office building, gun-fu, bullet time, a sleepy-eyed office drone recruited into a war he’s never heard of, and on and on.

That office drone is Wesley Gibson played by James McAvoy as a panic attack-prone pussy who everything always seems to go wrong for. All that changes when he’s recruited by The Fraternity, a thousand-year-old group of Freemason-like weaver/assassins who worship a self-propelling loom called “The Loom of Fate.” Leader Morgan Freeman inspects the textiles with a magnifying glass and decodes its binary patterns to form a hit list; the assassins operate on the “What if you could kill Hitler while he was still too young to grow a moustache?” principle of “kill one, save a thousand.”

McAvoy’s character is recruited by Angelina Jolie, creatively code-named “Fox,” which, come to think of it, describes the entirety of her role pretty well. She subjects him to a training regime that’s a bit like the torture porn version of The Karate Kid, and before you know it he’s shooting bullets along curved trajectories and killing people with convoluted cart stunts. But something’s rotten in this thousand year-old loom-worshiping conspiracy of assassins, and the only way to save the day is by shooting things. A lot.

Wanted is, at its core, a deeply stupid movie, but its main players are more than talented enough to sell this brand of stupid. Many of the action sequences may be derivative of Matrix derivatives, but they’re well conceived and executed enough, and there’s at least a couple of really cool moments (including Wesley’s creative use of an ergonomic keyboard and, hell, the preview audience I saw it with really loved it every time Freeman dropped an F-bomb).

But there’s nothing here that hasn’t already been done much, much better in, say, Shoot ‘Em Up (the action scenes) or Fight Club (the de-pussificiation of modern man throughline), the latter of which seems to have been almost as big an influence as The Matrix.

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Last month’s Iron Man was the seventeenth feature film based on a Marvel Comics superhero since 1998’s Blade kicked off the current superhero movie cycle. Of those seventeen, none divided critics, movie-goers or fans as sharply as Ang Lee’s 2003 Hulk.

It was by far the artiest and most experimental of them all, but something of a mixed bag—a well-acted, compelling melodrama with an all-special effect superhero that looked embarrassingly unconvincing, a badly botched ending and far too little smashing.

Which perhaps explains why The Incredible Hulk falls somewhere between a remake and a sequel, but far closer to the latter than a former. The entire cast is different, the creators are all different and the only reoccurring characters are the three principle ones. The origin of the Hulk, that which Lee occupied himself with for almost two hours before getting to the smashing, is told here in a minute or two, as flashes of information occurring behind the title sequence.

That’s how badly director Louis Leterrier (a disciple of Luc Besson whose filmography consists of action movies Danny The Dog and the Transporters) wants to make sure this Hulk movie delivers what the last withheld.

His is very much an action movie, albeit one that, like the better superhero movies, manages to be one without falling too hard into action movie conceit traps and occasionally seeming to be about more than just the titular character fighting things.

Our new Bruce Banner is Edward Norton, an actor just as well suited to playing the emotionally troubled as Eric Bana was, but with the benefit of being a lot less dreamy and thus more scientist-y looking. When we first meet him he’s living in Brazil, searching for a cure for his condition, while keeping a safe distance from his former lover Betty Ross (Liv Tyler, whose soft, whisper voice makes her a nice counterpoint to her anger-prone co-star) and trying to elude her father/his archenemy General Ross (William Hurt, stepping into Sam Elliott’s moustache and uniform).

Leterrier lets his Hulk out early and often, keeping the mostly CGI character in the dark as much as possible. It still looks pretty silly, but it’s definitely an improvement over the one Lee’s effects people whipped up, and it’s given a lot more to do, including fight a villain. That would be Tim Roth, who plays a government soldier type who keeps upping doses of “super-soldier serum” until he’s a big, bony monster capable of trading punches with the Hulk.

Some of their battle gets awfully messy in close-up, the way scenes of two CGI characters fighting over CGI backgrounds tend to do, but the previous scenes of Hulk action are much better, and there’s a great deal of Hulk-free action as well, including a pretty fun chase scene through the rooftops of Brazil involving Norton’s Banner.

The script, by serial superhero movie writer Zak Penn and Norton himself, includes some interesting innovations, like having Banner wear a beeping heart rate monitor which makes literal the ticking time bomb nature of the character, and comparing the results of his affliction to a sort of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (Wow, timely!). All while including plenty of tossed off in-jokes, like beefed-up roles for Stan Lee and Lou Ferigno, a Portuguese riff on the Banner’s TV catchphrase and a joke about big purple pants.

What was probably most remarkable, however, is the way The Incredible Hulk was constructed to work as a companion to Iron Man. Stark Industries is mentioned, S.H.I.E.L.D. is mentioned and its logo shown repeatedly, there are nods to comics fans tying the Hulk to Captain America (whose film Penn is also writing), and, in a scene mirroring the after-the-credits Samuel L. Jackson cameo in Iron Man, Roberty Downey Jr. shows up to talk to Ross about a team he’s putting together. In other words, expect Hulk and Iron Man to team up in an Avengers movie in a few years (box office receipts for 2010’s Thor and 2011’s Captain America permitting, of course).

This is the sort of franchise cross-pollination that was and is the bread and butter of Marvel Comics, of course, but this is the first film based on their characters to seriously attempt to emulate that element. A cohesive, shared setting is pretty rare for film in general—the old Universal monster movies and franchise face-offs like Alien Vs. Predator aside—so it should be interesting to see if it can successfully be transported from the one medium to the other, particularly since the stakes are millions of dollars higher in film than in comics.

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San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips are the quintessential Terrastock band. Fuzzy, loose around the edges and classically Psychedelic, their unique brand of head music draws equal inspiration from Japanese rock, Kraut, modern minimalism and their lysergic fathers from the American West. To put it simply, their discography is essential listening for anyone even remotely interested in the Psychedelic with a capital “P”. I caught up with mainman Ripley Johnson in anticipation of the first of what will hopefully be many Terrastock slots. This is my top festival pick.

After a flurry of releases in 2007, we’ve had about seven straight months with zero Shjips material. What gives?

We’ve been putting more energy into playing live, which is what we did in the first half of 2007 as well. We have a split 7″ with The Heads coming out, which will be available on our July tour with them in Europe. We’re also finishing up our 2nd LP for Holy Mountain, which will be available in the fall. And our early vinyl releases have been compiled as “Vol 1″, and is out on Holy Mountain in June. There should be another 7″ or two out this year.

Will the split 7″ be available at Terrastock?

The 7″ will only be available on the UK tour. We won’t even have copies until we get there.

Has playing out live more often changed the sound or direction of the band?

Somewhat. But things change with time in general. We just try to keep moving forward.

As far as I can remember, the Louisville Terrastock show will be the furthest east Wooden Shjips have traveled. Are any of the members from this part of the country or have any ties here, or are you strictly a West Coast band?

We played New York last fall, and we just got back from England, so we do get around some. We’re all from different parts of the country originally: Iowa, Vermont, Connecticut, North Carolina. We hope to tour more in the future. It’s just economics.

Your initial jump into the music world was a self-released, nearly anonymous 10″ that was given away for free to anyone who gave you their address, eventually building enough word of mouth to become a huge underground release. Who came up with this idea, and how long did it take for everyone to catch on?

That was my idea because no one knew who we were. I was just interested in getting it out, trying to find an audience. The initial pressing went quickly, due to some blog posts, and because we actually paid shipping to send them out. It wasn’t the most financially responsible strategy, but it accomplished our goal.

Terrastock this year is in Louisville, Kentucky, birthplace of the baseball bat. Are any member baseball fans? The A’s look pretty good this year.

Nash and I are both baseball fans. You can never count out the A’s. They always have scrappy players who work hard. I grew up a Red Sox fan, but I always pull for the A’s too. The Giants I don’t understand. I pull for them, but I have no idea what management is trying to do. They don’t seem to have a post-Bonds strategy.