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  • Miami New Times

    Packing a Tune

    David Packouz is an aspiring pop star and accused arms dealer.

    By Penn Bullock

  • Dallas Observer

    Un-Super Size Me

    One man's attempt to eat local.

    By Jesse Hyde

  • Village Voice

    The Goombah Next Door

    Joseph "Joe Campy" Campanella ratted out the mob-- and then spurned the federal witness-protection program.

    By Sean Gardiner

  • Houston Press

    Legends of the Squall

    Famed Galveston songwriter Rex "Wrecks" Bell has survived Hurricane Ike.

    By John Nova Lomax

Bird Names

By Eryc Eyl

Published on July 03, 2008

Chicago's Bird Names make freaky, folky, psychedelic rock for unhinged minds and untrimmed beards. If you gave Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett a cardboard box full of homemade instruments and unlimited use of the Little Rascals as their backup band, they might give back something like this.
Tue., July 8, 2008


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