MUSIC

 » TW Walsh - FROM THE ARCHIVES: This frequent David Bazan collaborator hasn't been to Pocatello, Idaho. "But I've been to Boise," he says. "We played a show there, and then stayed at the promoter's house. There was a small office in the basement that had animal heads mounted on every square inch of every wall. It was fucking creepy."

PROFILES

 » Moodgadget - Under the broad mission statement and motto of "exposing the diversity in electronically made music," record label co-founders Jakub Alexander and Adam Hunt have been dealing audio heat for the past three years with an impressive roster of developing artists. Josh Zanger recently cornered the two label visionaries for an interview.

MUSIC

 » Black Mountain: LIVE - Launching a tour in support of their latest album, In the Future - a work that revels in 1970s glory - the Vancouver quintet brought their live show to Tucson on Saturday night, flying the flag like a Led Dead Airplane. LAS staffer Ari Shapiro, with beer in hand (but sadly sans leisure suit), dropped in to check them out.

MUSIC

 » TW Walsh - FROM THE ARCHIVES: This frequent David Bazan collaborator hasn't been to Pocatello, Idaho. "But I've been to Boise," he says. "We played a show there, and then stayed at the promoter's house. There was a small office in the basement that had animal heads mounted on every square inch of every wall. It was fucking creepy."

PROFILES

 » Moodgadget - Under the broad mission statement and motto of "exposing the diversity in electronically made music," record label co-founders Jakub Alexander and Adam Hunt have been dealing audio heat for the past three years with an impressive roster of developing artists. Josh Zanger recently cornered the two label visionaries for an interview.

MUSIC

 » Black Mountain: LIVE - Launching a tour in support of their latest album, In the Future - a work that revels in 1970s glory - the Vancouver quintet brought their live show to Tucson on Saturday night, flying the flag like a Led Dead Airplane. LAS staffer Ari Shapiro, with beer in hand (but sadly sans leisure suit), dropped in to check them out.

MUSIC

 » Liars: LIVE - For anyone who has ever wished to have their lungs bruised (if not slightly crushed) by a set of drums, the Warsaw in Brooklyn was the place to be Saturday night as the transient avant-percussive trio, supported by art-punks No Age, delivered a real, honest-to-God rock show.

COLUMN

 » Glaciers of Ice: Volume 26 - Having wrapped December and January into one big two-year anniversary column, LAS resident hip-hop expert Jonah Flicker is back in the saddle with the highs and lows of beats and verse for February. This month Glaciers sounds off on Mike Ladd's move to Def Jux, the third Hi-Teknology collection, a handful of notable Joes, and more.

COMICS

 » Cash Rulez: 1993 - With LAS possibly (not really) having launched his career in television art department illustration, Mike Shea does us a favor and returns with a new comic series, each page of which is based on a single (un)remarkable event from sequential years in the life of pre-teen rap careers.

CINEMA

 » Starkweather-Fugate - LAS staff writer Zack Hall takes an in-depth look at the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958 and two cinematic revisionist reincarnations of the event - Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973) and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994).

MUSIC

 » Rosewood Thieves - After a well-deserved hiatus felling log cabins and minting coins (or whatever it is people do in the deep woods of Wisconsin), senior LAS staff writer Peter Lindblad returns, an article on the Lonesome plight of four New York folksters in tow.

MUSIC

 » Foo Fighters: LIVE - Having last passed through Memphis for a cold, rain-soaked Beale Street Music Festival in 2004, Dave Grohl and company returned to the River City at the end of January - with Jimmy Eat World and Against Me! in tow - and treated fans to a lengthy, rollicking, and thankfully dry performance.

CINEMA

 » Cloverfield - Vertigo. Stupid girls in high heels. Cookie-cutter monsters attacking the most obvious and over-used target. Yuppies. There are countless reasons to be extremely angry at the J. J. Abrams-produced film, which is flimsy at best, yet you'll still probably want to shell out the cash at the box office in order to to see it for yourself.

CINEMA

 » El Cid - Directed by Anthony Mann, this 1961 vehicle for pre-NRA gun messiah Charlton Heston and mid-century heartthrob Sofia Loren was re-released today by the Weinstein brothers as part of their "Miriam Collection" of "restored and re-released classics, contemporary classics and notable foreign films" on DVD.

MUSIC

 » Band of Horses: LIVE - Heading out to see the beard-loving, Credence-esque indie group from Seattle when they rolled through Boston last week, LAS staff writer Dave Toropov wasn't quite sure what to expect. Once the doors on the Paradise opened, things weren't much clearer: "the night seemed more like a peace conference between warring allegiances than a rock show."

MUSIC

 » Vashti Bunyan - According to the delayed UK folk star, her first forray into the music industry, some 30 years ago, was "full of frustration and big long spaces where nothing happened and I couldn't get through to anybody. This time it's just galloped along and it's been one wonderful thing after another and I've been swept along with it."

CINEMA

 » There Will Be Blood - Released on limited screens late last month, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and scored by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, is now making full rounds on the strength of its Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

MUSIC

 » Ode to Oldham - According the exhaustive music encyclopedia All Music Guide, the genre of Americana doesn't even exist. Try telling that to the solitary songwriters behind last fall's releases by Castanets and Phosphorescent, and the upcoming debut of Bon Iver - three releases paying homage to Will Oldham, the kind of indie Americana.