Album review: Change Becomes Us – Wire

CHANGE BECOMES US Wire (Southbound) Three and a half decades of arthouse punk is tough to sustain so the Londoners dipped into their past for the basis of their 13th studio offering. But the small nuggets mined from their late 70s seam of peculiarity get the type of reworking that reminds you that Wire are both the band of Heartbeat and Eardrum Buzz – and aren’t afraid to warp a track with poppy enthusiasm or Eno melancholy

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‘Liz & Dick’ Rating Are In

  Liz & Dick rating are in!    Not the Most Watched Lifetime Film   The ratings are in and Lindsay Lohan’s “Liz & Dick” did NOT get the viewers it needed to become Lifetime’s most watched TV movie of 2012 … not even close.   3.5 Million Viewers  According to Lifetime, L&D drew 3.5 million […]

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Narcocorridos: The Balladeers of Mexico’s Drug Wars

In Rialto, on old route 66 just outside Los Angeles, young Mexican Americans in sharp cars and glittery, cowboy-goth clothes are pouring into a hangar-size nightclub to hear El Komander sing. Brawny, buzz-cut and with a midnight pallor, El Komander looks as if a Mexican drug cartel might have sent him on a summer internship with the Russian mob.

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