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61. Night & Day

    Evangelicals, Headlights, Gentlemen Auction House

    Published: February 28, 2008

    The Cavern offers you some serious South by Southwest bang for your buck with this Austin-bound line-up. The Evangelicals, of Norman, Oklahoma, don't seem to actually be...

62. Night & Day

    Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Robert Gomez

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Suck it, Austin. Will Johnson may have moved from Denton to your overrated yupster hamlet years ago, but when it comes time to debut music from Centro-matic's forthcoming...

63. Stage

    Bare Returns to Catholic School Where Boys Will Be Boyfriends

    Also: Jewish angst and Dixie drawls in They're Playing Our Song and Crimes of the Heart

    By Elaine Liner

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Count on these things in most every Uptown Players production: cute guys kissing and at least one young man stripping down to scanty man-panties. There you have Uptown's latest...

64. DVDish

    Move Along, Kids

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros.) Based on Darwyn Cooke's comic-book miniseries — a masterpiece starring all of DC Comics' major-leaguers at the dawn of...

65. What Else Is New?

    DVD Releases for the Week of February 26

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Barbie: Mariposa and Her Butterfly Friends (Universal) Comanche Moon (Sony) Day Zero (First Look) Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (HBO) Family Affair: Season Five...

66. Game On

    Text Adventure

    Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar Lost Odyssey

    By GARY HODGES

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Lost Odyssey wants to be Microsoft's answer to Final Fantasy — not that that's such a good idea. Like Star Wars, Final Fantasy survives as a power brand thanks to the...

67. Critics' Picks

    Dan Dyer

    Friday, February 29, at Bend Studio

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Even though Dan Dyer was born in East Texas and now resides in Austin, his musical roots are firmly set in his former residence of Missouri, reflecting the rhythm and blues...

68. playlist

    Apes

    Ghost Games (Gypsy Eyes)

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: February 28, 2008

    One can't help but wonder how much a rock band can rock without a guitar player, but Washington D.C.'s Apes are out to disprove the common assumption that rock bands without...

69. Bsides

    On the Wrong Side of Ryan Adams' Whiskeytown

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Before Ryan Adams recorded every half-baked song idea he ever had, before he scored the model-actress girlfriends, before A.A., he was a mean, drunken son of a bitch. He was...

70. Film

    Band of Brothers

    Egyptians and Israelis forge an unlikely, and unsappy, bond in the desert

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Last fall, The Band's Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel's foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards—an ironic fate, indeed, for a movie...

71. Critics' Picks

    Marilyn Manson, Ours

    Friday, February 29, at House of Blues

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Eat Me, Drink Me, the effort supported by Marilyn Manson's Rape of the World tour, is unimaginative alt-rock from an artist that became more accessible at exactly the time he...

72. playlist

    British Sea Power

    Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)

    By Chris Parker

    Published: February 28, 2008

    On its 2003 debut, The Decline of British Sea Power, U.K. indie-rockers British Sea Power laid buzz-saw guitars on top of an expansive, psych-tinged background. The band's 2005...

73. Bsides

    Mission Giant's Golden Triangle Evokes Synth-Pop and Joysticks

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    It's not clean new wave. It's not art rock. It's not straight experimental. Mission Giant's latest release, Golden Triangle, takes the synthesized and oft-instrumental works of...

74. Critics' Picks

    NOFX, No Use for a Name, Flatliners

    Saturday, March 1, House of Blues

    By Pete Freedman

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Oh, nostalgia. A good decade or so after both NOFX and No Use for a Name's heyday, the Fat Wreck Records label mates are still ticking, still touring and still making mall punk...

75. playlist

    Vampire Weekend

    Vampire Weekend (XL)

    By Danielle Sills

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Vampire Weekend has been buzzing in the blogosphere for almost a year now—some overzealous hipsters even named the Brooklyn band's self-titled debut "Best Album of 2007"....