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The week's releases
Metro staff reviews the latest CDs, DVDs and books for your reading pleasure.
Movies
The saga continues with rush of ‘New’ blood
REVIEW.
No matter how this review of ‘New Moon’ ends, whether this critic loves or loathes the film, is irrelevant. If you’re one of the legions of “Twi-Hards,” you’ll be stepping on heads to see it this weekend anyway.
Music
It's a sisters thing
Anna Christie first appeared in the these pages back in 2006, when she was among the frequent street performers in Suburban Station.
The Word
What women want: Wilmer
How does
Wilmer Valderrama
do it? The actor has dated a bevy of Hollywood beauties, from
Mandy Moore
to
Lindsay Lohan
(pre-career implosion) to
Hilary Duff
. He’s even claimed that
Ashlee Simpson
and
Jennifer Love Hewitt
have had a piece of Vaderrama-action.
Movies
The saga continues with rush of ‘New’ blood
REVIEW.
No matter how this review of ‘New Moon’ ends, whether this critic loves or loathes the film, is irrelevant. If you’re one of the legions of “Twi-Hards,” you’ll be stepping on heads to see it this weekend anyway.
Tell all your friends what you want to do for your birthday
>Gavin Friday did and it seemed to work out for him >Singer and U2 ‘midwife’ gets to realize his dream while raising money and awareness to fight AIDS
In the 1990s a television reporter asked Gavin Friday what he’d most like to do before he turned 50, and the Irish singer and composer said his lofty ambition was to play Carnegie Hall. His friends wouldn’t let him live it down. This ended up being a good thing.
New York Music
Something like a phenomenon
Daniel Collas is in a crowded bus on his way from London to Wales on the Phenomenal Handclap Band’s U.K. tour. It can’t be easy traveling in such close quarters with this hulking band of eight, but please, please, don’t compare them to the Polyphonic Spree.
New York Music
The Mayer of smooth city
It’s annoying when hugely successful artists claim that they didn’t really want all that fame. It was an accident, they claim, with a shrug and an incredulous smile. But in the case of throw-back soul singer Mayer Hawthorne, we kind of believe him.
New York Music
Shiny happy people
MUSIC.
Looking for a positive perspective in pop?
New York Music
‘Sun’ comes out
The Veils released their third studio album in April, but “Sun Gangs” is something of a new beginning for the London-by-way-of-New Zealanders. Since forming in 2002, the band has gone through a number of different members and called three continents home — for “Sun,” they lived the glam life in a garage while recording in Oklahoma. But the way frontman Finn Andrews sees it, there was no other choice but to keep working.
New York Music
The return of Extreme
Making a big splash
Identity of Afro-punk
A soldier, a rider, a ghetto survivor
An aggressive ‘Bachelor’
Breaking all the Windows
3 INFLUENCES School of Seven Bells
Near and Deer
The Club Phenomena
What Technicolor sounds like
New York Music
Shins find ‘Sea Legs’
Out of hibernation
Peaches and ‘Cream’
Visuals record in Everyday places
Kick out the ... bars?
'Chasing Pavements' to all the right places
Two planets
‘Living’ in perfect harmony
Stirring a different ‘Brew’
Stirring a different ‘Brew’
Music
MMMpod
The November MMMpod features interviews and music with a band called Girls, a band of girls called Supercute, and a supercute vampire. Yes, listeners, we have Pattinson!
