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Recent Articles By Annie Zaleski
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Mates of State/Headlights
9 p.m. Sunday, June 8. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Twangfest: Charles Walker and the Dynamites
9 p.m. Thursday, June 5. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
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Midwest Mayhem
7 p.m. Thursday, May 22. City Museum, 701 North 15th Street
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Sweet Honey: B-Sides defends Radiohead's Pablo Honey and dishes dirt on new local rock & roll bar the TRADE
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Caribou
9 p.m. Thursday, May 1. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the SLU campus, 20 North Grand Boulevard
National Features
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City Pages
Harassing the Harassers
Avenging attorney Pete Barry turns the tables on aggressive debt collectors.
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Houston Press
Bootlegging Dr. Pepper
Eight bucks a six-pack? A small price to pay for authentic, cane-sugar soda.
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Phoenix New Times
The Wrath of Wal-Mart
The giant retailer screws over an elderly greeter who made the mistake of drinking a Coke at work.
By Paul Rubin -
Cleveland Scene
Another Thing Comin'
Rock Star painted him as a wannabe, but Ripper Owens is doing better than ever.
By Denise Grollmus
Twangfest: Ha Ha Tonka
Opening for Waco Brothers. 9 p.m. Saturday, June 7. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: June 4, 2008
Springfield, Missouri's Ha Ha Tonka (née Amsterband) came into its own on last year's Buckle in the Bible Belt. Released on Bloodshot Records, Belt was a gospel-twang revelation that resembled a corn-fed Kings of Leon. Songs like "Bully in the Pulpit" and "Caney Mountain" featured spitfire honky-tonk licks and soul-drenched vocals from Brian Roberts, who sounds like Eddie Vedder with a mainstream-country tickle in his throat.
